THE END CERTAIN

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

THE END CERTAIN

HARD YEARS AHEAD. MESSAGE TO FRENCHMEN. (Rec. 10.25 a.m.) RUGBY, July 14. The following message from Mr Churchill to General de Gaulle to celebrate the Storming of the Bastile (July 14) has been issued from No. 10 Downing Street: — "Two years ago I stood in the Champs Elysees and watched with emotion the splendid parade of the French Army and Empire. Many catastroph.es have filled these two terrible years; many States have been trampled down and cast into Nazi bondage; millions of Frenchmen have found themselves, for the time being, in positions of insuperable difficulty—6ome have broken under the strain and have let themselves slide into the bottomless pit of despair. "But the soul of France can never be destroyed and the spirit of the French people will rise again from all the ruin and misery, purified and rejuvenated by what it has undergone. "To you and your gallant comrades 1 send this message of greeting and goodwill. 1 send a message to tell all true Frenchmen and French women that, wherever they niay be and however hard their lot. the British nation and Empire are always on the march along the great road which leads to victory. "I feel sure most of us will live to see another July 14, when the glories of Franco will be restored and when, amid the roar of a liberated Europe, we shall celebrate the festival of peace and freedom. % "Hard, stern years lie before us, but the end is certain—and the end will make amends for all. It is a good augury that this July 14 should witness the liberation of Syria from the control of AVicsbaden, to cleanse it from tho intrigues and infiltrations of the Huns.

"By British and French hands independence and sovereignty can be restored to the Arab peoples, and the historic interest of France in Syria can be recognised and preserved. "Thus encouraged, thus fortified, we can turn again to our toils and our duty."—Official Wireless.

FREE FRENCH CAUSE,

STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM

LONDON, July 14. * Speaking from Brazzaville (West Africa) General do Gaulle, in a broadcast to the United States, declared: "As President Roosevelt said, only through divisions have tyrants succeeded. It is enough for free men to rise and inarch forward together to cast Hitler and his entire system into the bottomless pit. "You may be sure this hope in which you people of America place your trust fills the souls of Frenchmen and also the souls of those who are still fighting in the A r alley of the Shadow of Death. The greatest deeds of the greatest peoples in the history of the world have l>een their struggle for freedom. That is true of my country as it is of your own." General do Gaulle, in a message to France, the French newspaper published in London, to celebrate the anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille, said: "To-day, as a year ago, we .recognise only one foe. AVe shall recognise him in any disguise. We shall fight him with every weapon." The Foreign Minister (Mr Eden) also sent a message, stating: "An anniversary will soon come when the uniforms of the German army and the Gestapo will have disappeared from French soil and the Champs Elysees will once more echo with the measured trend of the gallant forces of a France restored to independnce and greatncss."

UNBREAKABLE SPIRIT. RUGBA", July 12. Speaking at Plymouth, the Canadian High Commissioner (Mr Massey) referred to the destruction caused by air raids and said he had seen himself evidence of the ordeal citizens had been through. "Many of your houses and public buildings have been laid low, but the spirit of Plymouth is unbroken and will remain so to the very end," he said. Speaking of Canada's contribution to the common cause, Mr Massey said the Dominion had become a formidable arsenal. She now had the largest factory in the world producing machineguns and had made more than 100,000 motor vehicles for the army. AA'hcreas a year ago Canadian armament orders totalled under 60.000.000 dollars, today they were nearly three times that figure.—Official Wireless.