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REVIVED HOPE IN FRANCE Resentment Now Giving Place To Reason

VICTORY WILL NOT LONG

BE DELAYED

"I am more than ever convinced that the victory of our just cause will not be long delayed," said the Australian Premier, Mr. R. G. Menzies, re- plying to a telegram from General de Gaui- le congratulating him "on the magnificent achievement of the Australian troops Bardia and their effective contribution to the defeat of our common enemy." Reuter.

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R.A.F. ROUNDS UP PRISONERS

Military experts in Lon- -dor say that one reason for the fact that our losses in the taking of Sidi- Barani and Sollum were under 1,000 and Bardia less than 600 killed and wounded is probably the extensive use made armoured vehicles.

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Pro-British Sentiment Grows

THE REMARKABLE growth of pro-British sentiment in France to-day was the text of a broadcast by Mr. Alfred Duff-Cooper, Minis- ter of Information, from London last evening.

Mr. Duff-Cooper spoke of evidence from sources of "absolute accuracy" that in France despair had given place to hope, and resent- ment to reason. They saw that the only hope for the future of a France free and indepen- dent was a British victory.

were

Mr. Duff-Cooper told of a'hated in France than they French boy who built an aero-in the last war or even in 1870. a The whole of France bas been | plane in a cowshed and on

stormy day, when few German despoiled in order to gratify the of Germany. aircraft were about, took off and insatiable landed safely in England and is France is a rich, fertile country now fighting for the cause of the with a soil that produces the best yet Allies in the Free French Forces of everything in abundance;

greed

This boy, said Mr. Duff-Cooper, already occupied parts of France are going short of everything, I was able to give effect to the de- while daily, trains heavily laden sire latent in the hearts of mil- with French produce are despatch- lions of brave Frenchmen to-dayed to Germany. who only awaited an opportunity to show upon whose side they are and for whose victory they pray.

Greatest Of Glories

Mr. Duff-Cooper paid high tribute to Free Frenchmen and their leader, General de Gaulle, He said: "They have given up all for a cause which means more

to them than all the world: It is

the principle of honour, deeply implanted in the souls of all sol- diers, which made them refuse to

surrender: it is love of liberty of deeply implanted in the souls of all Frenchmen, which urges then to continue the fight.

"Their's is now the hardest of all lots to bear but in the days of victory theirs will be the great- est of all glories, when the exiles will come home as conquerors re- storing to their own people the freedom they had forfeited,”...----

Italian prisoners in Libya re still being rounded up and R.A.F. fighter planes are giving a hand in this work.

Flying

Jow over the desert, skimming the cliffs on the sea- shore at times, where they spot

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Throughout France to-day pro- British sentiment Is growing with remarkable rapidity and not unnaturally it grows more rapid- ly in Occupied France where the hateful presence of the Germans reminds the people day by day of what they have lost and what is their one hope of regaining it."

London and Paris

Mr. Duff Cooper then spoke of and Paris as the two London greatest cities of Europe.

"From thein has come forth all that is best in modern European hold civilisation and they both within their walls the traditions and love of the two great peoples that inhabit them.

We here in London often feel sad these days when we see

an- cient landmarks destroyed, beau- tiful churches lying, in ruins. memorials of our past greatness turned to dust. We feel sad, we

feel

feel we also ungry, but

more glad y do we witness such wick- He added: "When that series of ed wanton destruction than we sudden blows were delivered would witness, if we were French- against them in the days of June, men to-day. Paris unscratched. the French

beauty were left exhausted her

undiminished, her

Italians taking reture in caves. Exhausted and Stunned proud, and how infinitely they have on several Occasions enabled quite large bands to he taken prisoner.

Two days ago o Hurricane saw a small party of Italian officers at the water's edge.

took them

on

The Navy was informed, and a motor boat board, the party including the commander of the Sidi-Barani garrison.

Another British fighter cap- tured 150 Italians.

and stunned-hardly realising buildings standing all where they what had happened, hardly able stood so long, but German sold- to understand the extent of the lers mounting guard over the re- catastrophe which had over-mains of Napoleon, German of- whelmed a tree and happy coun- ficers swaggering down French boulevards, German women cov- ering themselves with French fin- for which the French pre obliged to accept fraudulent. worthless German marks.

try.

in In those moments of grief. The pilot at first though they those moments of misery and de-ery were British, but he came low feat, their feelings were naturally the and spotted their dusty green uni- those of bitterness against

whole world and they eagerly forms.

looked round for one on whom to put the blame of risaster"

He let loose a burst from nis gung at them and then flew around and

German propagandists made the around, keeping them together.

most of the opportunity and point- A truckload.of.British soldiersed to Britain as the culprit.. arrived to relieve him. - Router.

SOLDIERS ARMED ON LEAVE

An Army officer fold. Mr. Jus- tice Tucker at the Old Bailey that goldiers on leave must take rifles and ammunition with them.

The Judge said he hadhari two cases that session of soldiers shooting while on leave.

Before Burnham, 21, a trooper, who was

the court was

James

Easier To Bear

Believe me, the Londoner's lot is easier to bear than that of the: Parisian who must envy us our This worked well among a wounds to-day and who in days: heartbroken people who had. for to come will gaze with awe and the time being, lost the ability to admiration upon our scars." reason-a characteristic of. the Mr. Duff Cooper concluded: "It French mind for centuries. The is one of the greatest of all Hit- war, seemed to be over and con- ler's errors to believe he can per- of tinued British resistance hopeless. manently suppress the spirit.

Mr. Duff Cooper went on: "That France. That spirit is alive to- was the French mood of lust sum- day and growing in vigour, What' men but it is not the mood of better proof could we have than France to-day. For months now the simple fact that on Armistice they have been, contemplating, at Day, students in streets of Paris first with astonishment, then with sang the Marseillaise, and when dawning hope, and now with ever forbidden to sing it, sang instead increasing confidence, the great 'God Save the King'.”—British fight the British have put up, the Wireless. indomitable resistance against whichthe might.of German" ng- gression is gradually exhausting itself.

Germans Hated: As despair gave place to hope, sentenced to 12 months' imprison- so reason gradually took the ment for shooting..nt his sister place of: resentment. The French

WELFARE OF ARMY FAMILIES

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Four military officers of the rank in-law, Mrs. Elsa Burnham, and people recovered their conscious of major have been specially ap- William George Sullivan, outside ness and raw what for the mopointed in Lahore for the purpose ment they had lost sight of that of looking after the welfare of the an air-raid shelter: Sullivan was the only hope for the future of families of soldiers, who are abroad wounded in the arm.

France as a free and independent on active service. governing State luy in the pros- A fifth officer has been appoint- pects of a British victory.

ed at Peshawar, on the “North- The Germans ute more deeply West Frontier. Reuter.

I was stated that Burnham' had cohabited with the woman while

Brother was away,

Polish troops now serving under General Wavell's Com- mand in the Middle East. (Copyright, Fox).

THE NEW CHIEF WHIP

GALLABAT NIGHT RAID

TAKING ADVANTAGE OF BRILLIANT MOONLIGHT, BRI- TISH TROOPS SUPPORTED BY THE RT. HON, JAMES GRAY ARTILLERY CARRIED OUT A STUART HAS BEEN APPOINT STRONG NIGHT RAID ON PRE- ED CHIEF GOVERNMENT WHIP PARED ITALIAN POSITIONS IN IN PLACE OF CAPTAIN DAVID THE GALLABAT SECTOR OF MARGESSON, THE SECRET HE TARY FOR WAR.

SUDAN - ABYSSINTA FRONT, IT WAS ANNOUNCED of IN KHARTOUM YESTERDAY,

Mr. Stuart is a brother Lord Moray, and his wue, Lady Rachel Stuart, is daughter of

After fierce hand to hand fight- the Inte Duke of Devonshire, Heing the British gained their ob served with distinction in thejective: Great War and was Conservative: M.P. for Moray and Nairn and It is estimated the Italians lost has been a deputy of Capt, Mar 60 killed. British casualties were gesson since 1937. He is also the very slight. Scottish Government Whip.

For two years he was in bust- British patrols are also continu- ness in America and is reputed 10ing strong pressure against Ita- have one of the quickest brainslian positions in the Kassala sec- In the Commons. Renter,

tor, further north-Reuter.

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