"Our objective is still peace at home and abroad. Nevertheless, we stand ready not only to spend millions for defence, but 10 give our service fand even our lives for the mainten-lance of American liberties.
"One belligerent has many more planes than all its opponents com ined, but also appears to have a weekly production capacity at the moment far greater than its oppon-
Dangers of Rumour Emphasized London, May, 17.
Mr. A, Duff Cooper, the Minister of Information, in a broadcast last night said that he felt it was the job the "Ministry of Information to give people the maximum amount of information in the minimum time.
Accuracy and speed, he declared, were to be their main objectives, with accuracy coming frst.
After advising people not to allow to be added to the anxieties and horrors of war, all the wealth of mischief that rumour can produce, Nazis Forced Out Of Narvik Port London, May 17.
The bulk of the German troops occupying Narvik have abandoned the port and have sought refuge in the mountains situated at a point further east. All highways leading to the port are in the hands of the French and Canadian troops, and only a small fjord still separates the Canadians from Narvik itself. Both this sierd and the port are being subjected to heavy artillery fire from warships and are bombed by planes—Havs The President asked Congress to] take no action which would hamper or delay the delivery of American made planes for foreign nations which have ordered them, The President's request was divid= ed into $896,000,000 for immediate Oppropriations for the Army, Navy fand Marine Corps, and $100,000,000
"in addition, he sought to enter into contracts totalling §280,000,000. Router.
Mr. Duff Cooper said: "We are now Jengaged in a great battle which will be long and fierce, and there bound to be bad moments and bad news.
Dealing with the dangers of rumour, Mr. Duff Cooper said Homer had described it as the most swiftly moving of all evils and that description was as true today as when first said 3,000 years
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