Enslaved Belgium Confidently Awaits Victory

Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 109, 11 May 1942, Page 5

Enslaved Belgium Confidently Awaits Victory

British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 9.

M. Spaak, broadcasting on the occasion of the second anniversary Of the German invasion of Begium, said: “My countrymen have lived through a terrible winter. They suffered from cold and hunger. The schools had to close through lack of coal and the poorer classes whose rations were quite inadequate lost what remained of their health and were dying. Patriots are arrested, and the concentration camps and prisons are full to overflowing. “liut all Germany’s efforts are without avail. The greater the misery the greater is the people’s heroism. The fii<)r6 fierce and cruel the Germans become the more the Belgian shows his hostility and contempt. Amongst ffiy countrymen never has faith in Great Britain been greater. They are awaiting victory and freedom with unfailing confidence. They approve of us, the Free Belgians, because we have put in the common cause all that is left of our strength. Wo are proud of our airmen, sailors and soldiefs fighting and training in company with those who tomorrow will expel the Germans from the occupied lands.”