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SLAVS ASSURED BRITISH EMPIRE AIM FEELINGS OF CZECHS CONFIDENT OF VICTORY ■ Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 11.15 a.m. RUGBY. April 8. The British Government in n message sent yesterday to the Yugoslavian Government stated - “The savage outrage committed by Germany against Yugoslavia without the slightest provocation and the valiant resistance of the Serbs. Croats and Slovenes ranges the British Empire upon the side of the southern Slavs. We welcome them as a resolute and powerful ally. We renew the comradeship which in the Great War carried us through tribulations to victory. We will conduct the war in common and will make peace only when right has been vindicated and the law and justice again enthroned.”
The Czech President, Dr. Bones, has sent a telegram to King Peter ot Yugoslavia conveying good wishes to the* king and the army in the fight against the ‘'criminal attack perpetrated by a barbarous aggressor.”
Dr. Bones telegraphed: “I know that the Yugoslav people will triumph over the new big trial and will overcome further sufferings with the heroism shown in the last war. We won against our common enemy in 1918. I firmly believe that we shall be victorious again in this war, which will decide the fate of our two States and of our two nation:,”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20526, 9 April 1941, Page 7
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