ACTION IN CANADA
EXPANSION OF ARMED FORCES
TO MEET SITUATION IN EUROPE.
NEED OF NATIONAL EFFORT.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) OTTAWA. May 27. The Prime Minister (Mr Mackenzie King) in the House of Commons, announced an immediate expansion of the Canadian military and air forces to meet the critical situation in Europe. He added that the expansion would need the nation’s co-operation, notably that of labour and industry, which would have to work day and night to provide equipment. The Defence Minister (Mr Rogers) detailed increases including those of the Veterans’ Reserve and rifle batalions for the Fourth Division for active service, the calling up of 5,000 listed applicants for the Air Force, and also skilled unemployed tradesmen and certain unskilled men, but skilled employees, he said, were essential to industry and were requested to remain in their employment at present, receiving special volunteers’ badges. Mr Rogers said that numerical increases at present cannot be determined. Members of the Opposition cheered their leader when he congratulated the Government, adding that he had the support of the nation in doing so.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 May 1940, Page 6
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