PROGRESS TO VICTORY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1940, Page 2

PROGRESS TO VICTORY

LORD CROFT ADDRESSES CANADIANS STRUGGLE FOR ASCENDANCY IN AIR. EMPIRE CONTRIBUTION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 31. A warning that if the Germans do not come to us we will go to them was delivered by the Uijder-Secretary for War and Vice-President of the Army Council, Lord Croft, today. He was addressing units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and said: “Your presence here along with soldiers of Australia, New Zealand and Newfoundland provides many thousands of weighty reasons why a German victory is not possible. “The present phase of the war is largely the struggle for air ascendancy. If our Air Force continues to hold the enemy the air ascendancy- will be won when the river of supply of pilots from the great Empire camp in Canada -turns into a flood. Germany cannot win the war unless she lands in this island and makes us hold up our hands. No terror, no murdering of civilians and the destruction of churches and hospitals will ever drive our people to surrender. In remarking that Britain would carry the offensive to the enemy, Lord Croft said: “In which field, no man can yet say, but somewhere east, west or north there is a flank to turn or a front to be pierced, and since the armies of the Empire are of the same stuff as our seamen and airmen, when the opportunity arises it will be the same triumph of mind over mass, the same vindication of free men over slaves.”