LONG WAY TO GO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 October 1940, Page 2

LONG WAY TO GO

WAR YET IN AN EARLY STAGE

BRITISH MINISTER’S SURVEY.

CALL FOR FINANCIAL SACRIFICE.

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, September 30.

A warning that the war had hardly , begun yet was uttered in England today by Captain Cruickshank, Financial ' Secretary to the Treasury, when opening Coventry’s War Weapon Week. He said that the first year of hostili- ; ties had passed, but, without detracting from Britain’s great successes in the air battle or from the steady destruction of German military objectives by the bombers of the R.A.F. there was a very long road to travel. Captain Cruickshank urged that the nation must save to the limit. Till everyone made a great personal sacrifice the financial stability of the country would not have been, secured, nor would the delivery of all the necessary arms and military machines have been made absolutely certain.

Captain Cruickshank added: “Let it never be said that those with savings to lend were less resolute or less generous than those whose sole possible contribution to their King and country was the gift of their lives. “There is ample ground in official circles for the British confidence to face the next year of the war. The enemy has suffered very heavy losses in machines and pilots, and the British forces have much more conserved their fighting strength. The development of fighters and bombers has been by no means exhausted. In this respect it is thought that Germany is feeling the loss of the scientists whom she has expelled. “There is not one aspect of the vast and complicated German war machine which can escape attacks from the 1 R.A.F. British planes seek out and bomb aircraft plants and machineryplants, oil and petrol supplies to feed the machines, railways to transport raw materials and troops, aerodromes from which the enemy strikes, and ports across the Channel where German troops and ships are still awaiting the chance of invasion.”