THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 4, 1940.
MR. DUFF-COOPER SAYS:
FINAL VICTORY-AS CERTAIN AS SUN IN THE HEAVENS
London, To-day.
MR. ALFRED DUFF-COOPER, the Minister of In- formation, broadcasting from Paris where he had gone to hold discussions with his opposite number in the French Government, expressed absolute confidence in final victory.
The people of Paris, he said, knew that the most powerful army in the world, based on French soil, was preparing to deliver a mighty blow directed to the very heart of France.
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Mr. Duff-Cooper said: "It often hap- pens that facts which seem to be of little interest to Great Britain are of vital importance to the French there is always the danger that through ignorance something might be reveal- ed that might prove dangerous to the other.
To-day we have been discussing those matters and we have found our- selves in complete agreement and I aml convinced my visit has been well worth while because the two Minis- tries will co-operate more usefully in future. In order that we may under- stand a little of what the French people are feeling we must try to put ourselves in their place and imagine how we should be feeling when the whole of Scotland had been complete- ly overrun and all the Northern towns and many Midland towns and the prin- cipal ports of the north east coast were in the hands of the enemy while at the same time our harbours on the south coast were being bombed day and night. That is the position
of France to-day.
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In these circumstances, it was im- pressive to see how the men and wo- men of Paris were going about their business. Not perhaps with all their usual galety, but at least with their usual energy and calm.
"My visit," he said, "coincided with the most important air raid yet made on Paris.
"I have spoken to an eye-witness of the raid who tells me he stood In a bomb crater and spoke to cheerful working-girls on their way back to their afternoon shift.
Fighting For Lives
"The French are now fighting for their lives.
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"This is not, however, time.
"There is one thing they have in common with us. They have the they love of their own country and have the courage to die for it.
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"No two such countries could defeated even if they did not stand together, but they do not stand alone.
In every country, including many, said Mr. Duff-Cooper, were men and women
BOUGHT GIRL FOR EVIL
TRADE
Admitting that she had bought the girl in the country for the purpose of prostitution in the Colony, Lo Ng- mui, 46, was sentenced to three months' hard labour by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at Kowloon this morning for aiding and abetting Ho Lai, 15 in the practice of prostitution.
Inspector G. W. Moreton, of S.C.A., prosecuting, stated that at midnight on Saturday, the girl was found in Peking Road by Mr. Kellet, the Wo- men's and Girls' Inspector. After enquiries, he established that the girl was sold to accused in Canton, and was brought to Hong Kong for pro- stitution about two months ago,
The woman, residing at Shanghai Street, rented a cubicle for the girl' at No. 166, Woosung Street.
All the money the girl earned went into the woman's pocket.
The girl was ordered to be sent to the Po Leung-Kuk.
QUEEN ATTENDS ABBEY SERVICE
London, To-day. The Queen-attended a service-of prayer and music at Westminster of the Abbey last evening in aid Red Cross. The Queen had returned earlier from the country where she spent Sunday with Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose-British Wireless.
LORD GORT THANKS CIVILIANS
London, To-day. Lord Gort has sent a message to the Ger- inhabitants of a South-East Coast town there expressing his gratitude for the way loved in which the Allied troops were re- freedom, justice and honour, and ceived and provided with rations on their return from Dunkirk.--British Wireless.
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every one of them was on the Allied side.
"When the time comes they will make their weight felt."
Though they may, not be organised in battalions, brigades and divisions, the weight behind them is overwhelm-. ing, but what is needed is the neces- sary time to ensure that that weight shall make itself felt.
In this critical hour of the battle every one of us can play his or her. part not only by putting into the job he is engaged upon every ounce at his disposal but also by refusing to have anything to do with traitors and cowards who dare to suggest we can be defeated and seek to sow dis- sension among us,"
Mr. Duff-Cooper: concluded:" "You: are living through one of the very great moments of our history, I be- lieve we shall look back upon it with supreme pride when the final victory --which is as certain as the sun in the heavens shall have been achiev ed. Reuter and British Wireless.
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