MARCHING ON

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4535, 11 February 1942, Page 8

MARCHING ON

ASSAILED BY MANY DANGERS “Our path of the last two years has led us through the shadows. It has been beset with countless dangers, many of them real, some imaginary. K has taken us past deep chasms and over rugged country, and we have learned much as we have travelled. We know now by experience what we only guessed at, and certainly did not fully realise, in 1939, namely, that our enemy is resourceful, ruthless and barbaric, and that he is goaded on by a fanaticism that is rooted in hatred, potent for courage and not easily eradicated. Some friends who marched with us at the start have fallen by the wayside; others, having been assailed by the common enemy, have joined our ranks; others again,

who when we set out on the journey wished us well, but would not march along with us, have now drawn closer —much closer—to us in spirit and understanding, as well as in the material help which they are giving us. And whereas at the first milestone we declared both to ourselves and to the world that if need be we would fight alone, now at the second milestone we are conscious, not of any feeling of loneliness, but rather of an ever-deepening and an everwidening sympathy that is coming to us from every quarter of the globe, certainly from every continent. But we are still on the road, still marching on.”—“The Listener,” London.