Simla, Oct. 6.
A message from the Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, was read by Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell Briish Commander-in-Chief in India, before a secret session which followed the first meeting of the National Defence Council today. Mr. Churchill aid:
"In the first year of the war it was impossible io find weapons and equipment necessary for the Indian Army. In the second year something was done, and in the third year large supplies of the most modern war apparatus will come in.a steady flow to the expanding formations in the army. claimed.
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