THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 27, 1940
THE MAIN CITADEL Blitzkrieg Against England: Mr. Eden Confident
All Hitting Won't Come
Come From German Side
LONDON, TO-DAY.
"THE TIME IS APPROACHING WHEN THE ENEMY HAVING OVERRUN ALL OUTLYING FORTS OF LIBERTY, WILL LAUNCH HIS ASSAULT ON THE MAIN CITADEL – OUR OWN LAND,” DECLARED
MR. ANTHONY EDEN, MINISTER OF WAR, IN A BROADCAST LAST NIGHT.
"The enemy bombing attacks at night will be con-
tinued and possibly other forms of attack will be attempted also.
"They will be repulsed and we shall subject the enemy in his own country to constant heavy counter-attack from the air. We are confident the enemy will be beaten off.”
Giving reasons for his complete, the deep unity of purpose which in- confidence, Mr. Eden said that the spires all its peoples.
character of Britons was the first "The French nation, in its agony,
reason.
..
"We know you will never flinch. We have learned from the tragic fate of the French nation that civilisation can be preserved by material means alone. We have seen that ramparts of concrete are not enough.
of
"It is only by the dedication the human spirit and human will through the length and breadth of final the land that complete and victory can be won. "These are dangerous days-days when the fibre of our race will be put to a hard test, but we also know in our hearts that they are days of great opportunity such as few generations.
Standing Alone
come
to
Empire
Te-
the
"It is our privilege as an standing alone to preserve, to store and in the end to extend frontiers of freedom. The presence of troops in this island from every part of the Empire is a stirring sign
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has nowhere to look but to us for the salvation of the precious heritage of civilisation which must inevitably pass from Europe unless we, with our brothers from overseas, show invin- cible will to defend it.
Those over whom the iron wheels of the conqueror have passed base their hopes on our victory. We shall not fail them."
Underlying the official advice to "stay where you are when attacked," Mr. Eden remarked that the mass of refugees helped to lose the Battle of France: they will not lose the Battle of Britain.
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"We are now a fortress-until the time comes for the sally to the at-
POLAND TO
tack. It is not sufficient merely to FIGHT ON
defeat an attack upon these islands."
The Military Position FOR LIBERTY
A million and a quarter men under arms in the British Isles have now been increased by the arrival of the Australian and New Zealand contin- gents and by the return of a large The enemy would soon learn that number of British and Allied troops
Air Power
it was not in the nature of our peo- be bombed ple to sit placidly and without retort.
"We have an exceedingly powerful air force which will give the enemy Already, though a very bad time. operating at a great disadvantage, it has inflicted severe losses on him. It had never yet met the enemy with-
out the numerical odds being in the
enemy's favour, but remember what happened on the only occasion when it was operating from its own bases
and the numerical odds were not utterly fantastic.
During the evacuation of Dunkirk, the R.A.F. is known to have, destroy- ed as many as seventy German air-
craft in one day.
"Our airmen can do even better than this in their own skies."
A Warning
to
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aero-
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London, To-day. Poland's determination to fight on shoulder to shoulder with the British Empire was reaffirmed by M. Mikolajczyk, Vice-President of the Nation- al Council of the Polish Re- greater number of soldiers in this public, in a statement issued island.
in London yesterday.
Many of these men have met the enemy and were confident they could beat him..
"Never before have we have
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"We are confident we can throw sufficient force against any enemy who attempts to land on our shores,
attack him and defeat him.
"If he is able to run the gauntlet of the Fleet and Air Force or descend upon our land from the air, we shall be attacking the enemy in our own soil for our own homes with all our own command un- forces under our hampered by the necessity of sendind supplies or reinfc-cements overseas.
Tempered Optimism
"I can say to-night. In a spirit of tempered optimism, I know we have to face hard and anxious times but and I also know that our strength our spirit are sufficient for any trial. "No battle can be won by standing on the defensive or even by a suc- cessful counter-attack alone,
M. Mikolajczyk, who arrived from France with other members of the Polish embryo Parliament, formed un- der the chairmanship of M. Paderewski in France, said: "The fight for a free and independent Po- land goes on despite the cruel failures and disappointments.
"The Poles had, have and must have the will and determination to
persevere in this struggle in close co- operation with the powerful British Empire for the liberation of Poland under the leadership of General Sikorski."-Reuter.
BOMB ARREST IN SHANGHAI
Shanghai, To-day.
"When the time comes, aa ав suredly it will, to carry the war against the enemy, wherever he may be found, you can be certain The Police have arrested an em we shall do so with all our might. ployee of the "Ta Mei Wan Pao," ver- "Already in other parts of the world nacular evening edition of the "Shang- we are achieving success in offensive | hai Evening Post and Mercury," in operations. It is this offensive spirit connection with the attempt to blow which so clearly animates our forces up the paper's printing-shop on Sun- ̈ in the Middle East, and it augurs | day. well for the future."Reuter.
The arrested man is said to have confessed that he had been paid to "The British War Organisation Fund place the parcel, containing the bomb, The Police the printing-shop. Stamps are available for sale at Messrs. in "I cannot promise you that you Millington, Ltd., 1st Floor, King's raided the house where the other man will not be bombed, but I can and Building, and at Messrs. Kelly & was supposed to have resided but ho Our Own do promies you that the lot of the Walsh, Ltd., Book Store, Chater had already disappeared. Invader will become
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