“WAR TO THE END.”

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 69, 2 January 1941, Page 5

“WAR TO THE END.”

HITLER’S BOAST TO NAZIS.

SERVICE LEADER’S MESSAGES.

(United Press Association—Copyright./ BERLIN, December 31.

Herr Hitler, in a message to the Nazi iP'arty, said: “Tho war will be eontinned to the end ;.that is to say, until the criminals responsible for it are removed. It is no /empty phrase, but bloody reality, when we say that for every bomb, 10 or, if necessary, 100 will be dropped’ in return. “The Reich in the year 1940 has achieved glorious victories. The shame and surrender of Compiegne have been, eliminated for ever. We also think of the heroic soldiers of our ally Italy.” Reichmarshal Goering in a message to the Air Force said ; “Like iron stand our air defences at home and, in the occupied territories. They are responsible for the fact that the incursions of the enemy have not achieved any military and scarcely any other appreciable damage.. You have carried out the promise of hundredfold reprisals. “By the side of our naval forces, you aro at present the mainstay of the direct onslaught against England. We know we have behind us an inexhaustible armaments industry, whose workers toil day and night for . us. “We are fighting so that the German people may live and see the work of the Fuehrer completed.” Grand Admiral Raeder, in a message to the naval forces, said: “You have dealt blow after blow against the enemy on the seven seas and along our coasts and have shaken British supremacy.” Field-Marshal Brauchitsch (Com-mander-in-Oh ief of the German: Army) also issued a New Year’s Order of the Day to the Army, expressing confidence in a German victory.