WILL FIGHT TO END

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 29 September 1943, Page 5

WILL FIGHT TO END

SPEECHES BY AXIS PARTNERS London, Sept. 27. Messages from Herr von Ribbentrop, Signor Mussolini and Mr Shigemitsu, the Japanese Foreign Minister, in which they declared that the Axis remained unbroken, and would continue to fight to the end, were broadcast from Berlin radio to-night, on the third anniversary of the Tripartite Pact. Ribbentrop asserted that Mussolini to-night returned to Italy to help the first meeting of the republican P’ascist government. Ribbentrop said that the German: would not lay down* arms until Bolshevist danger to Europe was finally removed. Italy was a glaring example of what Europe may expect from the British and Americans. “Let whatever hard blows there may be in store for us come. Our soldiers will fight on.” Mussolini said that the Italian Republican Fascist Party had decided to continue with all its strength the fight side by side with its partners. Shigemitsu said: “We are at present counter-attacking and resolved to continue the battle till final victory. Come what may and whatever treachery the Badoglio regime may have committed, the Axis Pact remains unbroken. Japan is fighting a war solely of self-defence. We see clearly that the Anglo-Saxon Powers are determined to destroy the Axis Powers who stand in the way of their domination of the world. We at the moment are resisting fierce enemy attacks in the east and the west. By defending our right to live we will free East Asia from British and American exploitation.”