WAR TAKEN RATHER CHEAPLY
SPEECH BY COLONEL HARGEST TASK WILE BE HARD. I Per Press Association. I INVERCARGILL, Jan. 17. "1 am afraid the war has been taken rather cheaply so far." said Colonel J. Hargcst, in an address to the Invercargill Metropolitan Committee this evening. “I hear people saying that lhe war will be over in six months with the defeat of the Germans. I have no doubt about the defeat of the enemy but I also have n« doubt, about the hardness of the task "In the last few years all the democracies have done their utmost v. advance their living standards. We now "re against a nation which ha.; gone without food and bent every resource in preparation for 'this struggle which it has so wickedly brought upon the world. That nation will not submit easily, although submit it will eventually, but the struggle will not be easy.*
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 15, 18 January 1940, Page 5
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