RECIPROCAL AID

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 203, 29 August 1942, Page 5

RECIPROCAL AID

FURNISHED BY BRITAIN TO UNITED STATES R.ugby, Aug. 27. While he expressed sincere appreciation of the generosity and spirit, in which the United States had administered the lease-lend agreement, the Minister of Production, Mr. Lyttelton, in a broadcast to the United States, pointed out that Britain, too, was doing her share under this agreement, and had sent to the United States under what was known as reciprocal aid some of the things of which they were in urgent needfar instance, anti-aircraft guns, defence balloons, planes, and submarine chasers. Dealing with the efficiency of British weapons, Mr. Lyttelton said that to-day our pursuit planes were the fastest and most efficient fighting weapons in the world. Our 3.7 in. anti-aircraft and our 25-pounder field guns and six-pounder anti-tank guns had proved outstanding successes, and at least equal to any produced by the enemy, or the United States. Britain’s early tanks had some defects, but these had now been remedied, and Mr. Lyttelton was confident that the lat-st types had at least no superior.- 8.0.W.