The Archive · 1941

Lord Beaverbrook, British

Ministry of Aircraft Produc-lion, has cabled the Committee of the British Voluntary War Fund in Shanghai in the following terms:

"The achievement of the British communities in China in providing the Royal Air Force with a squadron of fighter aircraft commands the admiration and deepest gratitude of the people of Britain.

*'The British China Squadron' will earn its donors imperishable glory in the skies in defence of the ideals of freedom and civilization, and it will play its part in hastening that certain victory in which the British communities in China will share."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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