BATTLE FOR ENGLAND

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21157, 5 July 1940, Page 8

BATTLE FOR ENGLAND

PRIME MINISTER'S MESSAGE NEED OF STEADINESS WARNING TO ALARMISTS (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) {Received July 5, 3.15 p.m.) LONDON, July 4 The following is the text of the message sent “to all serving in positions of importance under the Crown:—• “On what may be the eve of an attempted invasion or battle for our native land the Prime Minister desires to impress upon all persons holding responsible positions in the Government and fighting services or in the civil departments that their duty is to maintain a spirit of alert, confident energy. While every precaution must be taken that time and means afford there are no grounds for supposing that more German troops can be landed in this country, either from the air or across the sea, than can be destroyed or captured by the strong forces under arms. "The Prime Minister expects all His Majesty’s servants in high places to set an example or steadiness and resolution. They should check and rebuke expressions of loose, ill-digested opinion in their circles or by their subordinates. They should not hesitate to report, or if necessary remove, any officers or officials who are found to be consciously ■ exercising a disturbing or distressing influence, and whose talk is calculated to spread alarm or despondency. “Thus alone will they be worthy of the fighting men who in the air and on the sea and land have already met the enemy without any sense of being outmatched in martial qualities.”