AID TO AMERICA

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20874, 28 August 1942, Page 3

AID TO AMERICA

BRITISH SUPPLIES SUCCESS OF WEAPONS PLANES, TANKS AND GUNS (British Official Wireless.) (11 a.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 27. While expressing sincere appreciation of the generosity and spirit in which the United States had administered the lease-or-lend agreement, the Minister of Production, Captain Oliver Lyttelton, in a broadcast to the United tSates, pointed out that Britain, too, was doing her share under this agreement and had sent to the United States under what is known as “reciprocal aid” some things of which they are in urgent need, for instance, anti-aircraft guns, defence balloons, planes and submarine chasers. Dealing with .the efficiency of British weapons, Captain Lyttelton said that to-day our pursuit planes were the fastest and most efficient weapons in the world. Our 3.7 antiaircraft, our 25-pounder field guns and six-pounder anti-tank guns had proved oustanding successes and, at least, equal to any produced by the enemy or the United States. Britain’s early .tanks had some defects but these had now been remedied, and Captain Lyttelton said he was confident that .the latest types had at least no superior.