WAR TAKEN TOO CHEAPLY
VIEWS OF COLONEL HARGEST STRUGGLE CERTAIN TO BE DIFFICULT
\ (rhESS ASSOCIATION TELBGHAJI.) INVERCARGILL, January 17. "I am afraid that the war has been taken rather cheaply so far," said Colonel J. Hargest, Officer Commanding the Infantry Brigade in the 2nd Echelon, 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.
"1 have no doubt about the defeat of the enemy, 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 bent every resource in preparation for this struggle, which it has so wickedly brought upon the world. That nation will not submit easily, although submit it will eventually. But ■ the struggle will not be easy."
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22921, 18 January 1940, Page 6
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