GENERAL CABLES.
Canadian Loan. Canada’s 141 million dollars second avar loan has been fully subscribed. American Red Cross. The American Red Cross has ordered the immediate purchase in London of 12 mobile canteens, each composed o! eight vehicles, at a total cost of 65,000 dollars. These could be used to rush hot foods to bombed areas. Since May the lied Cross has sent to .England 151 ambulances, 5,000,000 . surgical dressings, 2,138,000 dollars’ worth of medicines, thousands of pounds weight of canned and dried foods, and 470,000 pieces of clothing. South African Volunteers. General Smuts, in a speech, said the clearest proof of support for his policy was the successful reliance on volunteers for the Army, states a Capetown report. “Today we have 100 000 under arms and I could get any number, he said. General Hertzog’s motion that the Speaker be given power to convene Parliament if he thought it expedient after consulting the Priine__Minister was defeated by 82 votes to 57.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 243, 11 September 1940, Page 8
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