Referring to the six-months' war lull, the Chancellor said the Allies had time, been able to make good use of the
Unlike the enemy, he declared, they had not lived in a continual state of Berlin last night of leaflets E be she flares were also dropped to drive home the fact that British aircraft were once again over the capital, issued by the Air Ministry today, towns in north-west it adds, "were also re-by other aircraft as well "Baltic ports. Aircraft too kept "Watch on the German seaplane bases at Borkum, Nordany and Sylt. y continued throughout the it was not until well after the last of our aircraft re-
"Pilots who were over Berlin re-their return that flashes et the city, and when over it, This is the first of the flights this that Berlin ground batteries had Their fire was wide and no evasive action beam, were too numerous to plot. war preparation. Although Britain had made great efforts in the necessary work of rearming in the last three or four years, there were still many gaps to be filled and serious shortcomings to be remedied when the war broke out, In the past six months, Sir John continued, "we have been able vastly {0 improve our preparation and equipment. Whatever use Germany has made of the six months, on the balance the Allies have gained. It has brought to our side from every great Dominion overseas assurance and proof that they are indeed our brothers in arms; it has given time to reinforce the good understanding between ourselves and the French until Anglo-French ce-operation in every field has never. been so close.
"Today we have unity of command, "unity of policy, unity in finance, and unity in supply. This ce-operation is meant to continue after the war is over."
The lull, Sir John continued, had afforded an opportunity to neutral opinion throughout the world to show its sympathy to the Allied cause, and it had left Germany without a friend, unless indeed Russia was her friend.
The brutality with which the Nazis were treating the Poles, and the savagery with which they had sunk neutral shipping and machine-gunned fishermen and light-ships, had left no
sympathy of recent o the Unger ard said, as to where rear inlookers iced i tio "he Netherlands steamer Soesterberg, with à cargo of maize consigned to the Netherlands Government, was There might be some neutrals who feared Germany, but was there a single neutral who wanted her to win, he asked.—Reuter.
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