COURAGE AND SACRIFICE

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21183, 5 August 1940, Page 7

COURAGE AND SACRIFICE

TRIBUTE BY VISCOUNT GORT TWO GENERATIONS OF BRITISH SOLDIERS RID WORLD OF SCOURGE OF NAZI SAVAGERY (Official Wireless) (Received Aug. 5, 11.15 a.m.) RUGBY, August 4 Viscount Gort, broadcasting, said: “It has been my fortune to fight alongside two generations of soldiers, and from what I have seen during the past months I know that the younger generation is brimful of courage and ready to sacrifice all for the great cause for which we are fighting. “We older soldiers, veterans of the last war, are proud to be in the ranks with these sons of Britain, and on this anniversary our memories carry us back to the last war. Our thoughts turn to our brothers who lie buried but not forgotten in Flanders fields. With war once more in our midst we not unnaturally ask ourselves whether those who died in those never-to-be-forgotten years, together with those who have fallen in the present war, have given their lives in vain. I find comfort in the words of Abraham Lincoln: ‘We here highly resolve that those dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.’ “If the lamps of freedom have been extinguished by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy it is by the inspiration of the sacrifice of our old comrades that we shall relight them. And yet w T e may be thankful that they have been spared the sight of horrors far greater than those we witnessed in 1914. “ Never shall I forget the savagery of the total war which heralded the arrival in Western Europe of this new and revised version of the German doctrine that might is right—the pitiable terror of men and women in Belgium and Northern France, ruining many of them for a second time in their lives and rendering them homeless and penniless before the invader. And what a cruel fate to see towns and villages which had been so laboriously rebuilt after the last war once again reduced to heaps of ruins. And to what purpose ? To impose by force on free peoples a creed abhorrent to them and satisfy the lust for domination of one man, to whom the text, ‘Love thy neighbour as thyself,’ is meaningless. “ Strong, therefore, in support of our faith and of that armour of God of which St. Paul speaks we dedicate ourselves anew' in this crusade which shall rid the world of a scourge. In this spirit let us all go forward together.”

“VEST POCKET” NAVY ! COAST DEFENCE OF BRITAIN SURPRISES FOR HITLER j ‘ PREPARED FOR SEAPLANES (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, August 3 A correspondent who was permitted to inspect the coastal defences of Britain refers to the “Tom : Thumb” or “vest pocket” Navy. This consists of high-powered and heavily-armed speed boats, the task of which is to sight German seaplanes seeking to land troops on remote stretches of inland waters and rivers. The commander of a flotilla said: "We have got surprises for Bitter. They may not be magnetic mines, but something just as good. We are prepared for his seaplanes night and day.” Five thousand members of the Home Guard attend at Bisley every week-end for rifle instruction. All ranges of the National Rifle Association throughout the country are similarly occupied. WAR INDUSTRIES FACTORIES IN FRANCE NOT WORKING FOR NAZIS ( (United Pres» Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received August 5, 11 a.m.) LONDON, August 4 The Vichy correspondent of the American Press says the Minister of Industrial Production said: “If the French war industries in the occupied area are working for Germany they are acting contrary to the wishes of the Petain Government. “Such factories are in a position to open operations, but they will not begin the manufacture of war materials if we have anything to say about it.” TRAWLER SUNK attacks in the channel GERMAN RAIDERS DESTROYED (United Press Assn.—Tree. Tel. Copycgbt) (Received August 5, 11 a.m.) LONDON, August 4 The Admiralty announced that His Majesty’s trawler Cape Finisterre was lost on August 2 after an attack by four ei.em * 3 »raraft, one Of which was shot do^n Others severely damaged tne Ca pe Finisterre. which subsequently sank. Two British trawle-' arrived at a ■Rritish port after down a [ German bomber in <he Ci ) al P el - The Domier unsuccessfully bombed an d machine-gunr- ed the trawlers, o"e of which bi o u«ht down the P icked U P a dead member of the C«™an crew.

OVER 1000 RAIDS ROYAL AIR FORCE ATTACKS ON NAZI TERRITORY (United Preas Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received August 5, 11 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 4 The News of the World reports that the Royal Air Force has thus far bombed over 100 towns in Eastern Germany, carried out over 1000 raids, and dropped nearly 400 bombs oil German and German-occupied territory for every bomb dropped on Britain. More Leaflets Dropped It is officially stated that enemy planes last night dropped more leaflets of Hitler’s speech in a few districts in Wales and South-east England. LANDING AT DUALA ARMED BRITISH PATROLS FRENCH ADMIRAL’S OBJECTION TERRITORIAL LIMIT WIDENED United Press Assn. —Elec. Tnl. Copyright) (Received August 5, 11 a.m.) VICHY. August 4 A Government communique declared that the British cruiser Bulolo, which had been anchored at Duala since June 24, was replaced by H.M.S. Dragon on July 21, when armed British patrols landed and marched through the town. The French Admiral commanding the Atlantic Forces quickly intervened, whereupon the British returned to their ship. In Madagascar it was necessary to explain the circumstances in which the recent decision extending the territorial limits to 20 miles applied. [lt was specified that the extension ; did not apply to British or other merchantmen, which could move freely in this zone. There is a British armed merchant- , man named the Bulolo.