DEFENCE OF BRITAIN
WAR SECRETARY’S SURVEY INVADER PROMISED WARM RECEPTION. ADVICE TO CIVIL POPULATION By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Dav, 1.0 p.m.) LONDON, June 26. The Secretary for War (Mr Anthony Eden), broadcasting, said Britain was well provided with guns, which, assisted by a powerful Air Force, would make the lot of an air invader increasing unenviable. The R.A.F., during the evacuation from Dunkirk, destroyed as many as seventy German planes in one day. Mr Eden emphasised the official advice to civilians to stay put when attacked and added ‘that a brave and disciplined citizen population was an essential foundation for homo defence, but the enemy would soon learn that it was not the nature of our people to sit placidly and be bombed without retort. No battle was won by •standing on the defensive. We would sally against the enemy when the time came. Already we wore achieving success ?n offensive operations in other parts of the world.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1940, Page 6
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159DEFENCE OF BRITAIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1940, Page 6
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