London, Jan. 28.
ELDRESSING a huge assembly at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester yesterday, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Winston Churchill, said Britain had been at war for five months against the world's greatest military and air power.
"When the War began, most of us expected that soon our cities would be torn and. charred, and few would have dared to plan for the end of January such a splendid gathering as "thi he declared, "There is nothing more remarkable in our' long history than the willingness to encounter the unknown and face whatever is coming than was shown in September by the whole mass of our people. There never was a war into which a people entered with such united conviction, "Hitherto, the war has fallen a}. most solely upon the Navy and those parts of the Air Force which give the Navy invaluable help. 1 think you will agree that hither the Navy has not failed the nation.
fe shall pay a relentless toll for the mastery' of the seas. So far, marked success has attended our naval effort, "German trade and shipping have been driven or sunk from the German imports of vital war {ols are decisively curtailed. German exports are practically ent elf The volume of our imports and exports, checked by the change *from one to war, is now steadily me
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