London, June 8.
Britain's invasion hour was approaching, declared Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of State, in a recorded message radioed to Canada last evening for broadcast in Canada on Sunday evening.
He added that he did not know when the invasion would come, "but one thing is certain. The battle hour approaches. Every man must be marshalled ready for desperate resistance. Every gun and tank must be mobilized. Every plane must be ready to fly. For here we must expect before long to fight for our liberties and our lives, and when that day comes there must necessarily be vast interruption in our capacity to manufacture weapons for our own defence."
"The English people," Lord Beaver brook continued, "are not ente ing this battle in any spirit of re-
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