GLEAM OF HOPE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21850, 31 December 1940, Page 11

GLEAM OF HOPE

Miners’ Message To Europe British Official Wireless (Received December 30, 8.42 p.m.) RUGBY, December 29. A striking and eloquent New Year message to the mineworkers in Europe, in which the light of the miner’s lamp and the fearless and untiring work of miners’ rescue parties are evoked as pledges of hope for those who are oppressed under Nazi tyranny, comes from the miners in the Durham coalfields,” on behalf of every miner at home in Britain. To their fellowworkers on the Continent they say: “Whatever toll be paid and whatever the sacrifice involved, we face it cheerfully in the realisation that there can b' no hope for mankind so long as Nazis exist. The barbarian gangsters who enslaved you will never succeed against a people whose long history has been one struggle for endurance and triumph in the long, long travel to liberty and freedom. To-day when to you the future may seem as dark as night, we assure you that the gleam that lightens our burdens and gives us faith shall give you hope and confidence to overthrow despotism and tyranny.”