FRANCE'S PART
LAST BATTLE OF WAR DE GAULLE'S WARNING (By Telegraph— -Press Assn.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) <i.3o p.m.) .c . . Rugby, Juiy L 3, “The last battle of this war will take olaep.. in France.”., said. General de Gaulle in a broadcast from London. "In this battle,”.he continued, .“France will Rlay, a decisive part. Let- every Frenchman prepare. This is his sole duty." _ | . .After. Sketching-tlie .position in the Atlantic, the Middle,East.and.the Far East, iGeneral. de Gaulle-declared, that the Allied forces, which the, enemy would, have to destroy before lie could dictate.his orders, were .fiye tjmes as great,,as. .those, which ~were,, able,.to oppose him last.year. In the past year the enemy had lost,lo:times more.men than, in the two preceding.years,, while every three months the ■ weight, of bombs dropped on German territory increased threefold.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20827, 4 July 1942, Page 4
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