SUPPLY OF WEAPONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1941, Page 5

SUPPLY OF WEAPONS

POSITION OF GERMANY & THE DEMOCRACIES.

REPLY TO HITLER’S TAUNT.

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 6. Drawing attention to the supply sit nation and citing Herr Hitler’s remark that the German army is so well oil for ammunition that it has been able to close down factories, the “Daily Express” recalls Mr Churchills recent statement in the House of Commons in which he “warned us that the Gei - mans have an abundance of all weapons except aircraft.” It takes three years to build up an adequate supply organisation!, the “Daily Express states, and while British and American production is only now reaching this position Hitler got on the flood tide before the war began. After stating that Germany is offering to sell weapons to other countries, the “Express” emphasises that while this is no cause for despondency it is a “grim reason for taking seriously the power of Hitler’s war machine. That our enemy should now fling the statement of his surplus weapons about the world is his taunt to the arms workers 'of Britain and America, and they will not leave it unanswered.”