ROCK OF GIBRALTAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1941, Page 10

ROCK OF GIBRALTAR

CAN IT BE TAKEN?

"LET HITLER FIND OUT"

PRESSURE ON SPAIN

LONDON, May 2.

. Lieutenant-General Sir Clive Liddell, who is relinquishing the Governorship of Gibraltar to Lord Gort, today broadcast a farewell message from his fighting headquarters tunnelled in the Rock. He said it was the first time that a fortress commander had occupied the fighting headquarters since the great siege of 1779.

' Hitler,, he said, had tried repeatedly to drag Spain into the war with a view to attacking the fortress and closing the Straits, but they knew that 90 per cent, of the Spaniards did not want war. Hitler/ however, according to his well-known methods, had managed to find, a certain number of Quislings in that country, and that was the reason for the intensified work of preparation at Gibraltar, to ensure that if the "gangster's bands attack the Rock we shall destroy them."

Sir Clive Liddell added "I don't intend to give an opinion about the impregnability of the Rock.- Let Hitler send his marauders and bandits to find out." ■ • .