HELP FROM CANADA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1940, Page 5

HELP FROM CANADA

MORI: TROOPS REACH ENGLAND SAFE ARRIVAL OF SECOND DIVISION. ANNOUNCEMENT IN OTTAWA. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 2. A further contingent of the Canadian active service force, under the command of Major-General V. W. Odium, has arrived in England. An Ottawa message states that the Defence Minister, Colonel Ralston, announced that Canada’s second division had arrived safely in the United Kingdom. RAPID RECRUITING MORE THAN 50,000 IN SIX WEEKS. (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) OTTAWA, August 2. Canadian recruiting is proceeding at such a pace that there are now only 5982 vacancies in the Canadian active service force. During the past six weeks more than 50,000 men have enlisted. The Minister for Finance announced that Canada’s war expenditure for the current year will total approximately 1,000,000,000 dollars. BIG WAR CONTRACTS AIRCRAFT ORDERS PLACED IN UNITED STATES. (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) OTTAWA, August 2. The Canadian Minister of Munitions has announced that war contracts totalling 14,900,000 dollars were awarded in the past week. Several important aircraft contracts are oeing placed in the United States. LOOKING FORWARD TO RENEWAL OF OFFENSIVE ON CONTINENT. CANADIAN COMMANDER’S HOPE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.39 a.m.) RUGBY, August 2. On the arrival of the Canadians, Major-General Odium said: “We look forward to the time when the British people will be able to resume the offensive on the Continent and carry the war into Germany. Until that time arrives we shall not feel that we have done our duty. Germany has asked for it and is going to get it.”