BRITISH EFFORT'
HONEST FAITH KEPT WITH FRANCE UNDERTAKINGS HONOURED IN FULL. PROMISED AIR CONTRIBUTION MUCH EXCEEDED. ' By -Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON. June 25. An authoritative statement issued in London says:—“The British Government never promised to dispatch 26 divisions to France in the first months of the hostilities, as has been claimed in France. On the contrary, it was explained, in staff conversations with the French that during the first year of the war the British military effort must be on a limited scale.
“Four hundred thousand troops went to France, which number came up to the British undertaking.
“The British air contribution greatly exceeded that promised and .arranged with the French General Staff. .‘lt is true that because of the shortage of equipment fewer classes were called .up in Britain than in France, but hundreds of thousands of volunteers were incorporated in the British forces.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1940, Page 5
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