THE "V" CAMPAIGN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 192, 16 July 1941, Page 7

THE "V" CAMPAIGN.

A RISING CRESCENDO

Tapped out on restaurant tables, and doors, tooted on ships' whistles and sirens, and once even, in tin; form of the first bars of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, played from the Na/.icontrolled Hilversum radio in Holland, this signal is worrying the Nazis in the occupied territories. It is the Morse signal for ''V". which has come to be the accepted expression in the occupied territories of the longing for victory and Freedom from the Nazis. A broadcast from the 8.8. C, directed to the occupied territories of Europe recently suggested that the campaign should be brought to a climax on July 14, Bastille Day in France. At the week-end, however, and again yesterday, the 8.8. C. asked their European listeners that the climax should be postponed tiil July 20. "1 am not going to tell you the reason for this," the announcer said, "for that is just what Hitler would. liko to know. I can tell you that it j is a good reason, as you will realise: by the time Sunday comes." ""Till Sunday, July '2O. therefore," | he exhorted his listeners, "in the darki hours and at all convenient, but secret, j times, write the 'V' on walls, on roads, j on cars, on trams, or on posters. You will find many other ways of doing! it. To printers, for instance. ( would suggest 'V misprints. Work it to :i great crescendo by Sunday. "I can assure you," the announcer, concluded, "the Nazis are getting very; worried."

NORWEGIANS HITTING RACK MOSCOW, July 15.

The Tass News Agency says that Norwegian patriots are increasingly hitting back at the German invaders by sabotage and other activities and are also secretly preparing to act if the British should again land in Norway.