MR CHURCHILL

Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22514, 24 November 1944, Page 3

MR CHURCHILL

GIVEN GREAT OVATION THANKSGIVING SERVICE CONFIDENCE IN VICTORY (United Press Assn.—riec. Tel. copyright. LONDON, Nov. 23 Mr Winston Churchill received a great ovation when he attended an American Thanksgiving Day service in the Albert Hall today. 1 Air Churchill said this was a British as well as an American Thanksgiving Day, for the Allied Armies were driving on relentlessly and irresistibly toward the defeat of the common enemy. “We are moving forward in this struggle which spreads over all lands and all oceans,” said Mr Churchill. “We are moving forward surely, steadily and irresistibly and perhaps, with God’s aid, swiftly towards a victorious peace.” Reason for Thanksgiving The great audience gave Mr Churchill a tremendous welcome as he walked unannounced and alone down the centre aisle to the platform. “Never, I think, has there been more justification and more compulsive need for thanksgiving than now,” he said. “It is your day of thanksgiving, and when we feel the truth of the facts before us, that in three or four years the peace-loving people of the United States has in sober fact bfcome the greatest military, naval and air power in the world, then I say that in itself is a subject for profound thanksgiving. “Tonight, representatives of vaster audiences and greater forces are moving outside this hall. It is a British-American thanksgiving we may celebrate. (Loud applause.) We are joined together, shedding our blood side by side, struggling for the same ideals. We will be joined together until the triumph of the great cause we serve has been made manifest, but there is a greater thanksgiving day which shines ahead, which beckon the bold, loyal and warmhearted. That is when this union of action forced upon us by wars against tyranny which we have maintained during dark and fearful days shall become a lasting union of sympathy and a feeling of loyalty and hope between all British and American peoples wherever they dwell. Then indeed will there be a day of thanksgiving and one wherein all the world will share.” NEW BRITISH WEAPON USE AGAINST U-BOATS LONDON, Nov. 23 Details have been given about a new British weapon, the “big gun Mosquito.” The Germans first heard about it a year ago at Brest. A U-boat was manoeuvring into harbour on the surface. In the first light of dawn the crew on the conning tower picked out a Royal Air Force Mosquito aircraft diving toward them. Suddenly, from underneath the plane, a red ball came streaking across the sky to hit the U-boat. It was a 61b. shell, far heavier than the Germans had come to expect from Royal Air Force fighters. The gun is hung under the fuselage and fires its shells in quick succession. It is against U-boats that it has been used mostly, and with very great success. BOMBED FROM AIR RAILWAY LINES ATTACKED LONDON, Nov. 23 Royal Air Force Lancasters, escorted by Spitfires, this afternoon attacked a synthetic oil plant in Nordstern, in the Ruhr. Heavy bombers today continued operations against the retreating enemy in Yugoslavia by attacking the only railway line open to the Germans through central Yugoslavia, says a correspondent in Italy. Lightnings also ranged the area of Zenica and Brode and after bombing a number of targets strafed a train that was spotted moving northwards. The railyards at Doboj were well covered by glide-bombing Lightnings. Intense flak was encountered but no aircraft were lost. BRITISH SOLDIER SHOT SUDDEN ATTACK NEAR CAIRO RUGBY, Nov. 23 A British soldier was shot and seriously wounded jpy unknown assailants while walking near Cairo with another soldier, states an agency message. A car was passing at the time and it is believed that [the shots came from persons in the I car.