“God Hath Numbered Thy Kingdom ”

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 186, 7 August 1941, Page 7

“God Hath Numbered Thy Kingdom ”

DUTCH PREMIER’S INDICTMENT OF HITLER (British Official Wireless.) Received Wednesday, 9.20 p.m. RUGBY, Aug. 5. <‘ Hitler is beginning to see the writing on the wall seen by the Babylonian tyrant Balthasar: ‘God haih numbered thy and finished it,’ ” said the Netherlands Prime Minister (M. Gerbrand) in a broadcast from England. ‘‘Among all the Allied Governments there is not a single person who would with Hitler and his conspirators,” M. Gerbraudy added. ‘‘Although the Netherlands had no diplomatic relations with Bolshevist Russia rubber, tin, bauxite, coffee atid tea from tho Kingdom of the Nether’ands would contribute to the support of these latest victims of Hitler's shameless thirst for world domination.” The important contribution the Belgian Congo is making to the Allied war effort was mentioned by tho Belgian Colonial Minister (M. De Vleeschauwer) to-day when he pointed out that the Congo was a big copper producer as well as a source of supply of tin, manganese, cobalt, lead and radium. Twenty tons of line gold also came each year from the Congo as well as- tho largest proportion of industrial diamonds in the world. The spirit animating both the European and native inhabitants was one of seemingly inexhaustible generosity not only to the Belgian refugees but to all Hitler’s victims.