BRITAINS’ HOME FORCES

Grey River Argus, 21 July 1941, Page 8

BRITAINS’ HOME FORCES

Yesterday’s Rally LESSONS FROM CRETE. LONDON, July 18. Addressing Home Guards,, the Finarfeial Secretary to the War Gnics ’ (Mr Richard Law) said: “I think inn. there is a lesson that has been thoroughly learned from Crete am; that is the immense, value- of the Home Guard in an invasion. If there had been a few battalions of th-. Home Guard t.o assist the reguku armv there. I have no doubt th t the result would have been very d ffer ent “I do not think that it is poss'bie to over-estimate the value of the support which the Home Guard can bring to the Army in the event of an air force invasion similar to that o ! Crete,’’ he added. Announcing in a broadcast to pennl-> of occupied countries tlr-t .Sunday would be the date of Europe's mobilisation against the Germans, Colonel Britton, of the- Headquarters Staff .of the Anti-aircraft Commend, said that on frat day the “V” rrmyEurope’s invisible army of many millions —w'll come into b eing. “Mobilisation should be carried out with the greatest discip'me," he said. “It will begin at. .midnight find will continue throughout the day The act of enlistment will be simple You are asked to do two things. Take a vow at th P earliest moment on July 20 to continue faithfully to fight the best way vou can for your country’s independence and honour and that of the other nations enslagcd bv the Nazi Germans. You are asked also to take every opportun'ty on this day to demonstrate to the Germans the mobilisation of the ‘V Armv by putt'ng a ‘V’ on walls everywhere you can put them, by beating out the ‘V’ sound whenever you gel the chance. Let thc ‘V’ be splashed from one end of Europe \+o the other.” The bankruptcy of German propaganda methods is demonstrated h.y the frantic adoption of the “V" for victory s’rgi bv Dr Goebbels rs a symbol of Nazi achievements. The German Trans-Ocean Service sok-ton-ly announced that the letter “V” a", n symbol of victory of the Germans on all fronts for a new Europe made a sudden public anneT-mce on Thursday in most of the European capitals. On° London broadcaster s n id I b at the Germans would soon claim that thn r F. real’v stands for the ; nit ! a l of the Luftwaffe, and that the Czech motto “Lot mriith Prew' il -” has always been part of the family erect of GoebboK