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VICEROY'S TRIBUTE TO INDIA'S GRAND WAR CONTRIBUTION

A TRIBUTE TO THE glorious troops in the many battlefields of the war was paid by the Viceroy in a broadcast, from Simia, to the people of India on the anniversary of the out- break of the war.

The Viceroy said: "India is awake. She is mighty and formidable, and she shall, if you so determine, be mightier yet. The war, like the bursting of a great dam, has released The waters of destruction on the world. noise of these waters was far off when India set herself to meet the storm.

sea

GUERILLAS UPSET GERMANS

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JAPAN'S GREATEST CRISIS

"Japan is facing the greatest crisis in her history," declared Prince Fumimaro Konoye, Prime Minis- ter of Japan, when he confer- addressed a ence of Government leaders and repre-

sentatives

of

the

country's wor indus- tries.

Prince Kono ye added: "The crisis can only be met by the complete mobilisa- tion of the nation's power."--Reuter.

"In two years' time, the war bas rolled

much nearer our shures, and not from one direc- tion only. But India stands firm, her young men have come for- ward for service on land, on and in the air. Her factories and shipyards are working night and day to produce munitions and ships, and the world will not forget how.

darkest after the

GIVING SEVERAL hour of the Allied cause, Indian

EXAMPLES OF RECENT SOVIET soldiers went into battle on # December morning In the West- PARTISAN SUCCESSES, ESPE- ern Desert as the spearhead of a CIALLY IN THE NORTH-WEST A SUPPLEMEN- great attnek, and won at Sidi DIRECTION, Barrani our first resounding vic-TARY RUSSIAN COMMUNIQUE CITES AN ORDER FOR A GER- tory.

MAN ARMY GROUP IN THE focus NORTH WHICH ILLUSTRATES

main roads and territories THE ALARM OF THE GERMANS ordered that only

INCREASING RUS- should be used for movements of Indian, AT THE group. armies have fought and found SIAN GUERILLA WARFARE. smaller units or single soldiers.

The order states: "The intensi- "Villages off the main road are glory on many a field in Egypt, the

has only to be visited by single sol- Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, fication of guerilla activity Iraq.

Syria and Persia. They made it impossible for single soldiers or small units if they have detachments to been declared safe by the Ger- dealt faithfully with the Italian diers or small

far pass the countryside Empire which lies in ruins.

from man military authority."--British communications.

"To-day, point of nations

India

is the

of the Eastern

New Links

They forged new links of com- radeship in arms, and they have protected great neighbouring na- tions against imminent or actual threat of invasion.

"When the tremendous conflict passes into history, their deeds will be inscribed in golden let- ters on the banners of victory."

The Viceroy also paid tribute to factory workers and merchant seamen, and concluded by say- all his ing that the "Nazi and works must perish utterly from the earth." Reuter.

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INDIAN JOINS FIGHTERS SQUADRON

A Hurricane squadron of the Fighter Command has recently added to its roll of pilots from ver- seas an Indian from the fighting Punjab.

The squadron has a great fight- ing record. Its leader has already destroyed 16 German bombers.

Pilots include recruits from Texas, Australians, Canadians, Czechoslovaks, Poles. and Anglo-Argentinian, besides Eng- lish, Scots and Welsh. ⠀

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SIR TEJ SAPRU PAYS TRIBUTE TO BRITAIN

“WHAT MAKES ME confident about the suc- cess of England is the spirit of courage and sacrifice which is animating her people, young and old, men and women," said Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, the In- dian Liberal leader, in a broadcast from Allahabad yesterday.

He stated the English people had a remarkable gift of adjusting themselves to changed circums- tances. They had indomitable courage and an un- failing power of endurance which, more than economic and military resources, should enable them to win the war.

Therefore he urged "each, one

of us should within his sphere help the war effort without indulging

Robust Confidence

Therefore to-day "we face the in equivocations or hair splitting dangers confronting us with robust. differences about the capacity in confidence that however long the which we can help the war effort." way and whatever trials may

Sir Hami Mody, supply mem- still be in store, the world will ber of the Viceroy's Council not have to groan under the heel told Reuter yesterday: "Our of the dictatorships". greatest enemy is the spirit of complacenoy. There is no room Concluding, he said India's for it!!!

A soldiers had made history once Reviewing the course of the war again, and when India's part in during the past two years he said the struggle came to be assessed, that from many points of view the it would be found she had worth- greatest achievement had beenly discharged the great respon- Yet the Indian newcomer has the ranging of the enormous mor sibilities-which-her-unique-strate shown that the Punjab canal and material resources of the ric position and material re- produce as good fighter pilots New World on the side of the Desources imposed upon her-Reu- as any of the world. He was mocracies.

so keen to fly that after taking

his arts degree at the University of Lahore ho spent £300 ac2 cumulating 100 hours of flying experience.

When war broke out he at once Joined the Indian Air Force and when volunteers for overscas ser- vice were invited he jumped at the chance to come to. England. Out of 24. pilots selected for England 18 were from the Punjab,

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