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4 CANADA’S FIGHTING EFFORT. PRODUCTION OF MUNITIONS & FOOD. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 1. Remarkable figures concerning Canada’s war effort were given in a postscript to the 8.8. C. Sunday night news by Mr L. W. Brockington, who is now on his return to Canada. “I got a telegram the other day,” he said. “It told me a few facts. It said there were in the armed forces of Canada today 387,000 men ready to go anywhere—26o,ooo in the army and 27,000 in the navy, and 100,000 in the ail’ force. “When the war began we had about 13 ships and 1400 men. We now have 27.000 men and nearly 400 ships. We have' an air force of 100,000. Under the air training plan there are 90 air schools and 130 air establishments. They are flying aircraft a million miles a day. Since the war began, excluding Hong Kong, 2614 Canadians have been killed. We have built factories where 100,000 men and increasing thousands of women are turning out munitions of war.
“We have enough wheat to keep you for two years. The wheat is already in storage. We are sending you butter, milk, bacon and cheese. By July of last year we had already sent you 2,000,000.000 pounds of food.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1942, Page 3
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