IN HOLLAND

Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1940, Page 5

IN HOLLAND

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(Per British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, September 12

“We fully appreciate,” saii"Queeii Wilhelmina, broadcasting, “that notwithstanding our considerably (merchant navy, it will not be possible to give everybody immediately what he, will want, but we trust that the Dutefi solidity of the plan will guarantee a steadily-mounting flow. A people cannot be subjugated merely by force of arms. As a united people we endure this trial.' New proof of this can be found in the spontaneous generosity of the Netherlands East Indies for the Queen Wilhelmina Fund, which has been put at my disposal. The patriotism of the donors, and their strong will to win the war for the liberation of the Netherlands, lias given rise to their wish that part of the contributions of total of 5,000,000 gilders shall be spent for military purposes in the Allied struggle. Tn conformity with the intention of the donors. I have informed the King of Britain that they plan to give a number of military aeroplanes, through the medium of the Prince Bernhardt Fund, in which fund this amount will he deposited. These great demonstrations of unity and the will to independence, together with such signs of national generosity l and cannot hut lift us above the difficulties and sorrows of those dafs, and enable us to look with confidence to the future, which, under God’s blessing, will give us all hack a free and independent country.”

The fund is to be used to supply 40 Spitfires and 18 Lockheed Hudson bombers to the R.A.F.

Queen Wilhclmina and her Ministers are already doing everything possible to begin immediately, as soon as the moment conies, the revictualling of the Netherlands with foodstuffs, as well as raw materials for the economic restoration of the country

Expressing her heartfelt thanks for the countless expressions of congratulation, affection and sympathy, received on the occasion of her GOtli birthday, Queen Wilheimina said that the commemoration had developed into an overwhelming demonstration for the restoration of the independence of the Netherlands, and the minion in undisturbed freed out, within the framework of the Dutch State, of the Dutch community ol 70,000,000 citizens. L'hi., was an historical fact of lasting significance.