SURFACE RAIDER.
LAYING OF A MINEFIELD.
OFF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
(Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, May 24
It is authoritatively stated that a surface raider is believed to be responsible for the minefield found off the Capo of Good Hope on May 17. SEALING OLD FRIENDSHIPS. FEELING IN U.S. GROWING.
LONDON, May 23. The Minister for Information (Mr Duff Cooper) in a speech to the Eng-, lish-speaking Union, said: “Day after day opinion in the United States is rising. We can leave it for the people of that great country to' decide for .themselves what line they will take, and when, in the affairs of the civilised world. Danger tests friendship. This country is in fearful danger to-day—greater danger,perhaps than in the whole of her long history. Events of the last few weeks have done more for the Allied cause, in the United States than eight months of propaganda,”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 194, 25 May 1940, Page 5
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