General Weygand Confident
Everyene Must do Duty With Determination
FRENCH PREMIER'S BROADCAST
United Press Association—By Electric
Telegraph—Copyright. Received Thursday, 1.30 a.m LONDON, May 22.
Broadcasting to the Prench nation, M. Reynaud said: “I have just seen General Weygand, who has returned from the front. He told me, ‘I am full of confidence, provided everyone does his duty with ferocious determination. ’
“The civilian population must not be scared by raids by German mechanised columns, which resemble the inroads of cavalry in former days. The people must remain at their posts.” M. Reynaud added that any slackening of the speed and volume of production would amount to a weakening of the national effort and impair the strength of the country. Orders to this effect had been issued to civil and military authorities.
“If we hold out for a month —and we shall do so—then we shall have covered three-quar-ters of the road towards victory,” he concluded.
German Right Flank Smashed by British
Received Thursday, 1.30 a.m. PARIS May 22.
The military spokesman said the British had strongly smashed the German right flank near Cambrai.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 121, 23 May 1940, Page 7
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