ALL AVAILABLE AID

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 137, 11 June 1940, Page 8

ALL AVAILABLE AID

BRITAIN'S STAND

WORLD'S FATE DEPENDS ON BATTLE

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received June 11, noon.)

RUGBY, June 10,

The great battle now proceeding in France is being followed with close and sympathetic attention by the Brir tish public. Everyone realise.? that the land of Britain itself may appropriately

be described as the "back area" of thtf fighting front. Not only is it the "Battle of Paris," but the "Battle of London" as well, and it is realised that the fate of not only Britain and France, but the whole world depends on the result of this heroic struggle waged by the French armies against Hitler's barbarous hordes.

Despite the imminent danger of a German invasion - of Britain, the British Government and the British nation are unanimously of the opinion that all available forces should be directed without delay to the scene of, battle. Important contingents of new troops have already disembarked in France to reinforce the British forces which are fighting at the side of their Allies. The R.A.F. in France has been increased in strength, and the fleet is shelling German troops- on the coast. During the last few days hundreds of German aeroplanes have dropped bombs on Britain in the hope of immobilising fighters. This measure has completely failed. The thought in British minds is-to sustain the battlefront and the British people are proud to endure attacks which would otherwise be directed against the" Allied armies. Every enemy aeroplane'crossing the British coast, and every bomb falling on Britain diminishes by so much the German effort at the front. As an English newspaper has said: "It is better for British civilians to be killed than ~ Allied soldiers." . ... Such is the spirit of the British people. They have unshakable confidence in the military genius of. the French High Command and in the traditional heroism of . the French soldier.