"WILL NOT BE EASY."
DEFEAT OF NAZI FORCES. COLONEL HARGEST'S VIEW. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARC.ILL, Wednesday. "I am afraid that the war has been taken rather cheaply so far," said Colonel J. Hargest, M.P., officer commanding the Fifth Infantry Brigade, in an address to the Invercargill Metropolitan Committee this evening. "I hear people saying that the war will be over in six months, with the defeat of the Germans. "I have no doubt about the defeat of the enemy," he added, "but I also have no doubt about the hardness of the task. • "In the last few years all the democracies have done their utmost to advance their living standards. We are now against a nation which has gone without food and has so bent every resource in preparation for this struggle, which it has so wickedly brought upon the world, that the nation will not submit easily, although submit it will, eventually. But the struggle will not be easy."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 15, 18 January 1940, Page 14
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