AUSTRALIA'S WAR EFFORT
SPATE OF TANKS AND AIRCRAFT.
P.A. Cable.
SYDNEY, Oct. 20.
Australia's tank production has increased one hundredfold during the past year, stated the Att orne y - Gen ■ eral, Dr Evatt, to-day. He said that there were now 96 times as many tanks in Australia as there were six or seven months ago, and the aircraft strength had also increased enormously. Emphasising the spate of Australia's war effort, Dr Evatt said that there we-re few fronts on which Australians were not fighting. One small contingent of the A.I.F. had even been fighting in distant China. An essential part of the war effort, declared Dr Evatt, was to plan for the post-war period. "There must be no repetition of the chaos, anarchy and broken promises that followed the last war," he added. "Australia must look to the time when a > million and a half men are taken out j of war occupations to be re- absorbed in normal civilian life.'' v,
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 248, 21 October 1942, Page 2
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162AUSTRALIA'S WAR EFFORT Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 248, 21 October 1942, Page 2
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