WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT
QUEEN WILHEMINA’S MESSAGE. SUBJECTS IN EAST INDIES. When Queen Wilhemina spoke over the radio from London recently, giving a message to Netherlanders in all parts of the world, she devoted part of her broadcast to words of encouragement directed to her compatriots in the East Indies: “I assure you how deep my sympathy is for you and my understanding of your sorrow, but I thank God that for you the tide will turn.” These words were spoken to brave men who are still fighting stubbornly in the forest fastnesses on Sumatra and Java, concerning whom the public knows little beyond the kindling fact that, aided by the native population, they carry on against heavy odds. They were spoken to the Netherlanders now in Australia and elsewhere who are gallantly fighting with the resolution that in the days to come they will be part of the force which will recover the Netherlands Indies from the Japanese. Those who have left Java are resolved to return.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1942, Page 3
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