APPEAL FOR AID

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 211, 14 June 1940, Page 6

APPEAL FOR AID

MESSAGE TO MR ROOSEVELT. It* . “ENEMY ALMOST AT CATES” “FRANCE STABBED IN BACK” (United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.0 a.m.) LONDON, June 13. In a message to President Roosevelt, expressing gratitude for the generous aid now being given by America n\ aviation armaments the French Piemier M. Reynaud) says: “For the last six days and six nights pur divisions have been fighting with- \ out an instant’s respite against an army which possesses crushing superiority, effectives and material. The enemy to-day is almost at the gates or Paris. We will shut ourselves up in one of our provinces. If we are chased from there we will go to North Africa, and, if we must, to our possessions in America. “At the moment when I spealt another dictatorship has struck France in the hack. • A new frontier is menaced. A naval battle is about to begin. It is my duty to ask you for new and even wider help. I beg you to / publicly accord to the Allies moral and material aid by all means except the despatch of an expeditionary force.