DEATH TO TYRANNY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 191, 15 July 1941, Page 5

DEATH TO TYRANNY

BRITAIN'S RESOLVE

MAGNIFICENT COURAGE

(Rec. 10.15 a.m.) RUGBY, July 14. The Premier, accompanied by Mrs Churchill, reviewed the London Civil Defence units in Hyde Park to-dav. Addressing the parade, Mr Churchill said they had just come out of one long, hard battle and might at any moment enter another.

London's defence services were typical of those of the rest of Britain who, in every city, town, and village, had acquitted themselves with distinction.

"The defence of London last winter against Hitler's act of terror proved decisively mat the assault upon our lives and homes—launched indiscriminately upon men, women, and children, military and civil, old and young alike—failed utterly in its purpose of breaking the British spirit. The defence of London, in which you bore your part, was a counterpart of tlie defeat, of the German air force by our fighters a few weeks earlier in the iiattlo of

Britain." Men and women who had never thought to fight had emulated the courage of the bravest soldiers and had comported themselves with discipline and confidence under enemy fire. That quality was universally spread among the British people, and on that foundation the righteous waiter the freedom and future of mankind would be prosecuted to the end. Mr Churchill said the enormous advance of the United States towards making a contribution to British resistance had been largely influenced byj the conduct of the men and women of London and elsewhere in standing, up to the enemy bombardment. BATTLES AHEAD. Although at the moment there was a lull in the air raids over Britain, and it was true that some of Hitler's forces were away attacking the lives and rights of another vast branch ofi the human family, the Nazis still had | large forces close at hand and the British people must prepare themselves to receive visits in the future. "We shall be ready. We shall be more ready than ever. We arc now lximbing him at a heavier rate in discharge of tons of bombs than he. in any monthly period, has bombed us. But this is only tho beginning, i We shall continue this process, and J upon a growing scale, month after month, until at last we shall l>eat| down this horrible tyranny which hasl reared itself against our lives and against the honour of every free people in the world," declared the Prime Minister. HITLER THE CULPRIT.

Increasingly heavy bombing of Germany and counter-action by the Nazis were foreshadowed by Mr Churchill. He said that if the people of London were asked whether a convention to discontinue the bombing of cities should be entered into the overwhelming majority would cry "No!", hut would say to Hitler: "You have committed every crime under the sun. AVhere you have been least resisted, there you have been most brutal. It was you who began the indiscriminate bombing. "AVe remember AVarsaw within the first few days of the war. A\ 7 e remember Rotterdam. AVe have been newly reminded of your habits by the hideous massacres in Belgrade. Wo know too well the bestial assault you are making on the Russian people, to whom our hearts go out in their valiant struggle."

Mr Churchill said that for a month past systematic and scientific large-scale bombing of German cities, seaports, industrial, and other military objectives had been carried on, and he believed it to be in the British power to keep the process going on in a steadily rising tide, month after month. "Each month the tonnago of bombs and the range of the bombers grows, and as the nights lengthen that unhappy, abject subject provinco of Germany, which we used to call Italy, will have its fair share, too," added Mr Churchill.