VICTORY SURE

Patea Mail, 9 May 1941, Page 4

VICTORY SURE

CAUSE WILL TRIUMPH HARD KNOCKS AT PRESENT ‘‘ Wo are taking hard knocks, and may have to fake a lot more," said Colonel R. F. G-ambriU at the annual meeting of the Gisborne Returned Soldiers’ Association. "That is the natural result of the ebb and flow of war, and we must not be unduly downhearted. The war twill not be won this year, and perhaps not next year, but. we can be certain that in the end our cause will triumph. "Our men were driven out of Franco and Belgium. The Germans are saying •that wo arc- being driven out of Egypt too. But while they are trying to do all this driving, we are killing Germans at a much faster rate than they are disposing of our men. That is the job iwe have to do, -and if we have to get out of Greece we will have to find some other place where we can go on killing Germans, and so bring the war 1 nearer its absolutely certain conclusion . " Colonel Gambrill suggested an historical parallel for the present state of the world war. Early in 1800, he said, Britain -was fighting Napoleon, ano was at last alone against the enemy. Her allies had collapsed and she had only one small European foothold in Political. By 1815 France was beaten and Napoleon humbled. History had repeated itself to a degree, and, he fell absolutely certain, would complete the parallel course as far as the humbling of the Nazis was concerned. The speaker concluded his references to the war situation by repeating his warning against magnification of tomporarv reverses.. In the end, he said, the Empire cause would prevail because it was right.