THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 7, 1940
M. Reynaud Gives Stirring Broadcast On The BATTLE FOR FRANCE
AND WARNS
HITLER THAT
ALLIED RAW
EVERY AIR RAID ON FRENCH MATERIALS TOWN WILL SEE REPRISALS
PARIS, TO-DAY.
"Last Monday, Hitler organised a spectacular rald on the capital. Ho employed hundreds of bombers and fighter planes.
"What were the alleged objectives of importance? All the world knows and he knows, as has been proved by
dren and old people were hit.
"Did all this disturb Paris? No, not for a second.
“WITHIN THE LAST FORTNIGHT I HAVE TWICE ADDRESSED YOU AND EACH TIME I HAD TO ANNOUNCE SAD NEWS,” DECLARED THE PRE- MIER, M. PAUL REYNAUD, IN A BROADCAST TO THE FRENCH NATION LAST NIGHT. "On May 21 I informed the Senate that the Ger-precise figures, that women and chil-
mans had taken Amiens. On May 28 I an- nounced the King of the Belgians had betrayed us and the road to Dunkirk was open. "To-day, in an hour which remains grave, I am go- ing to give reasons for hope – not words but facts.
FROM D.E.I.
LONDON, TO-DAY.
THE DELIVERY OF RAW MATER- IALS TO THE ALLIES FROM THE NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES AND THE USE OF THE ALLIED POOL OF SHIPPING“ ARE TWO IMPORTANT ECONOMIC MATTERS NOW RE- CEIVING THE ATTENTION OF THE GOVERNMENT, REUTER DUTCH
IN AUTHORITATIVE LEARNS
DUTCH CIRCLES IN LONDON.
"Supplies of raw materials are to be made in such a way that there shall be no interference with exports to Japan and the United States.
"Some minutes after, the bombing raid I saw on the spot the proud The most economical use of all AI- faces of our working men and wo-lied shipping is also being considered, men, of the people of Parla who and Dutch shipping will give the ut- do not know how to tremble.
most assistance to the Allies but suf- "We know now that what appeared ficient tonnage must be available for to be à colossal raid was nothing to exports to Japan, the U.S.A., Austra
lia and South Africa.-Reuter.
Reprisal Raids
"Germany has launched herself against us with her the soul of Paris.
usual brutality by three separate thrusts. "The first was when German propa-| Dunkirk have already gone down in ganda announced that the Allied arm- history. During these days the valour ies which had gone to fight in Belgium of our military leaders has affirmed had been encircled and would be an- Itself in magnificent fashion. nihilated. They were to be cut off from the sen, deprived of munitions and provisions, and the world would witness a capitulation unprecedented In history.
"In the face of the impossibility of impairing this vast loss of fighters, the morale of the Allies would be crushed.
"This morning I received Admiral Abrial, defender of Dunkirk, “In these men, who have won the admiration of the entire world, France believes. In these men we see the re- vived and eternal glory of the gener als of the Revolution and of the ad- mirals of the French kings.
"All the glory has been revived by thousands of obscure sacrifices which will probably never come to light, made by soldiers of our northern arm-
es and our sailors.
"This ring of steel, however, was never closed, and 333,000 Allled Bold- lora were embarked at Dunkirk, teaching Germany the significance of mastery over the seas..
"After the surprises of the first com- "Far from breaking up, the morale bat, our soldiers of 1940 have proved of our troops and our country reveal-themselves equal to those of 1914 who ed itself equal to the strain and worthy of our ancestors.
Heroes Of Flanders "The heroism of the Battle of Flan- ders and of the rearguard fight before
never doubted victory even when the Germans were winning.
The Rald On Paris "The second German thrust aimed at breaking the morale of Paris.
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"This raid, as you know, 'did
reply. On the remain without a night of Tuesday successive waves. of British bombers attacked" the factories of the Ruhr; bombs were dropped on Dortmund, Frankfurt, Duesseldorf, Cologne and Essen. The fire of petrol stores set alight was visible from
SECRET SESSION IN HOUSE OF LORDS
London, To-day.
It is officially announced that the House of Lords will hold a secret ses- sion next Wednesday.-Reuter,
not the France of the period between the two wars.
a distance of 150 kilometres.
"French
over bombers flew Mannheim, Ulm, Ludwigshafen and Munich;
colossal factory of Badische Aniline was set on fire. The flames were visible from the French frontier.
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"Each raid on a French town will be answered in the same manner In future.
the That much about air raid.
-Battle For France "The third German enterprise, and the most decisive one, is the one we witnessed to-day.
"It is the battle for France, it is an attack in the grand style, preced- ed by Hitler's proclamation to his troops.
"All means which we know have been put into operation. Aircraft and armoured divisions are once more attempting an infiltration and a break through of our front.
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"The battle has already commenced and I shall tell you nothing but what General Weygand has told "I satisfied with the manner in which the battle has begun and the manner in which my, order for resistance at any price is being executed," he said.
"On the ground on which We were forced to Improvise resistance, our army is showing that It adapting itself to the new condi- tions of warfare.
"Since the beginning. of the battle 100 enemy tanks have been destroyed and the Allied, aviation is supporting the action of our troops.
All The World Watches
"All the world watches breathlessly the development of this battle because the Battle of June, 1940, will decide its fate, as Hitler has said, perhaps centuries.
New Spirit
"It is another France, just as that Britain which is fighting Hitler is not the Britain of the last 20 years...
"We French of June, 1940, have but one thought to save France. All members of the Government animated by a common will to con- quer.
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"We will not lose our time when the country is in danger on debates on responsibility: We will not weaken France by dividing her.
Each one of us and each one of you will bear responsibilities, each elcotor and each elected.
"Our first duty la to realise, our own faults in auccessive - govern- ments and In public spirit.
"Democracy has for a long time been lacking in foresight and auda~ city. The idea of the fatherland and of military valour has been too long neglected.
"Let this be brought, home to all before closing this chapter of our history and working with the fierce energy of men whose eyes. have been opened.
"Only the propaganda of Goebbels is interested in fomenting discord. The French masses laten to it with con- tempt when it describes our country as plutocratic.
Calm And Proud "France is calm and proud, like her Ally.
"For some time before the thun- der clap of the new confilct the Allies had, with all other countries, a vital interest in common-to prevent the hegemony of Germany.
of all other countries that our sol- diers are fighting on the Somme and Alano.
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"What Is the risk which be, realised in Europe and Europe? To-day_alf-
"There is no nation with whom France cannot settle by peaceful means divergent Interests which ap-
oppres alon, where men who are not Ger-pear to oppose each other. mans play but the role of slaves..
"The new world announced by Hitler in his proclamation may begin perhaps by trickery but soon enough will follow orders for bullying, smacks in the faces of workers, and the moral. and phys
tion of the elite.
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