London, May 19.
The Air Ministry announced today that Britain's most recent pursuit plane, the Boulton De-fant, showed its mettle in combat "for the first time over Holland yesterday. The fight, Which lasted five minutes, involved several of the pursuit planes and a Junkers-88 bomber which was trying to bomb three British ships. The bomber was brought down in flames.
A Boulton Defiant plane shot down a Heinkel bomber while on patrol. The new pur suit plane has an clectricallycontrolled turret—Havas. from the standpoint of the inviolability of Australia and the security and friendliness of strategic islands to the safety of Australia, was less Important to Australia and New Zealand than certain islands between Australia "and Suez, He declared that there had been Ino change in the Opposition's view [condemned "outrageous be-Jon the war from the outbreak and the lull ourselves into 9 false we of security if we assume that the struggle in this great conflict fs going to be restricted to the continent of Europe.
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