GREAT EXPANSION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1943, Page 4

GREAT EXPANSION

IN BRITISH BOMBER STRENGTH IMPRESSIVE FIGURES GIVEN BY LORD BURGHLEY. EVENTUAL AVALANCHE AGAINST JAPAN. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day. 12,30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. In the first quarter of 1943, Britain had *3.7 times as many bombers as she had in the same quarter of 1942 and thirteen times as many as in 1941.

In the first three months of this year Britain’s aggregate weight of heavy aircraft was 35 per cent more than in 1942 and 128 per cent more than in 1941. This indication of the growth of British air power has been given by the British Controller of Repairs and Overseas Supplies, Lord Burghley. He told interviewers that: "Britain thinks the war against Japan just as important as the European war.” However, because it was bad strategy to dissipate energy against a number of opponents, he added, Britain had not been able to do all she would have liked to do for Australia and New Zealand.’ But with Germany out of the way, Britain and the United States ( would despatch an avalanche of munitions, with men to use them, so that Japan would be sent scuttling back into her kennel.