"CONQUER OR DIE.”

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVIII, Issue 101, 20 May 1940, Page 3

" C ONQUER OR DIE.”

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tage on the Western Front, informed opinion makes no attempt to disguise the possibly decisive character of the battle raging in the region of Sedan and the Upper Meuse. In the confused situation in these areas, which was described in the French communique last night as taking on the aspect of a veritable melee, there is a disinclination to forecast future trends.

In the meantime Marshal Gamelin’s momentous order of the day “Conquer or die,” has had a rallying effect both at the front and behind the lines, in London no less than in France. Referring to this “grim hut heroic message,” the “Daily Mail” says that whatever happens it “will live for ever.”.

In a message received late last night an agency war correspondent describes the situation in France and Belgium as “being better than earlier reports suggested.”