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DONALD DUCK

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

June 19, 1940.

By Walt Disney

YOU FELL

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UNCA DONALDI

DON'T WORRY, BOYS--

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FULL REPORT OF PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH BRITISH NAVY WILL BEAT ANY NAZI INVASION, SAYS MR. CHURCHILL

LONDON, JUNE 18 (REUTER).—THE HOUSE OF COMMONS WAS

MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL MAKE WHAT WAS REGARDED AS THE MOST IMPORTANT SPEECH OF THE WAR AND TO GIVE AN ACCOUNT OF THE DRAMATIC EVENTS WHICH LED TO FRANCE'S APPROACH TO GERMANY TO END THE HOSTILITIES.

CROWDED THIS AFTERNOON BY THOSE WHO WISHED TO HEAR and their crews

down safely-and a surprisingly the power 01 our Jong-distance

"I spoke the other day,” said Mr. Churchill, “of the colossal military disaster which occurred when the French High Command failed to with- draw the northern armies from Belgium at a moment when they knew that the French front had decisively broken at Sedan and on the Meuse.

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PRESENTS

A PROGRAMME OF SWING MUSIC

R2303 Wle the weeper,

Weary. blues,

R 2258 Blues with a feelin'.

Misty morning.

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Last round up.

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Early cussion hop.

Blue skies.

which get on the contrary, definitely increases | RL 2733 large number of injured machines blockade.

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Who did you meet last night. Melody in Rif. Monotony:

Swingitis.

New Orleans.

and men do get down safely in mo- "Should the military resistance dern air fighting-will in this attack come to an end' in France, which it g 2447 another day. Whereas all the in-wilt in any case be greatly diminish-R. 2438 Swing as it comes. fall on friendly soil and live to fight is not certain yet (cheers) though it

jured enemy machines and their cum-ed, the Germans can concentrate plements will be total losses as far as their forces upon us, But for the R 2011 Twe sleepy people. the war is concerned.

reasons I have given this will not be "During the great baille In easy. France, we rave very powerful| "If the Invasion becomes more and continuous aid to the French Army both by fighters and by bombers. But in spite of every kind of pressure we never would alfow tho entire metropolitan strength of the Air Force in fighters to be consumed,

imminent we are being relieved from the task of maintaining a large army in France and have a far larger and more efficient forces here to meet them.

"If Hitler can bring under his despoile control the Industries of the countries he has conquered this will

"This delay entailed the loss of 15 or 16 French divisions and threw out of

Painful Decision "This decision was painful but I add greatly to his already vast arm- action for that critical period the whole of the British Expeditionary Force.

was also right because the fortunes ament output. "Our Army and 120,000 French troops indeed were rescued by the British been decisively affected even if we

in the battle in France could not have U.S. Supplies Assured

"On the other hand it will not Navy from Dunkirk but only with the loss of all their cannons, vehicles and modern had thrown in our entire fighter happen immediately and we are now

forces.

assured of immense, continupus and equipment.

"The battle was lost by an un-increasing support in the supplies of "This loss inevitably took some weeks to repair and, in the first two of those columns and by the very great (cheers) and especially of airplanes foreseen power of the armoured munitions from the United States weeks, the battle for France was lost.

preponderance of the German Army and pilots from the Dominions In numbers.

across the oceans who will come from "Our fighters of the Air Force their regions which are beyond the might easily have been exhausted reach of the enemy bombing. 08 mere incident in that great struggle and we should have found ouzelves at the present time in a

"When we consider the heroic resistance made by the French Army who were at heavy odds in this battle (chcers) and the enormous losses inflicted upon the enemy and the evident exhaustion of the enemy, it may well be thought that those 25 divisions of the best troops, best trained and equipped might have turned the scale.

Deprived of 25 Divisions

very serious plight.

Stronger Than Gormany

and

" do not see how any of these factors can operate to our detriment on the balance before winter comes, and the winter will impose a strain upon the Nazi regimo with almost all Europe writhing and starving under their heet which, with all their ruthlessness, will harm them, very hard,

"Aalt is, I am happy to inform House that our fighter air strength a stronger at, the present time relatively to the Germans, who have suffered terrible losses, than It has ever been "Consequently we believe our-tember 3, it was always possible for selves to be possessed of a great Germany to turn all her air force

"We must not forget that from the lime when we declared war on Sep-

"However, General Weygand had to fight without them. Only three British divisions or their equivalent were able to stand in line with their French comrades.

"They have suffered severely but they have fought well. (Cheers). "We sent every man we could to France as fast as we could re-equip and capacity to continue the war in the upon this country, together with any transport their formations.

nir and under better conditions than other devices of invasion she might we have ever experienced before. have conceived and that France "I look forward confidently to could do little or nothing to pre- the exploits of our Oghter pilots who we have, therefore, lived in this

vent it. will have, the glory of saving their

"I am not reciting these facts for the purpose of recrimination."

STRENGTH OF OUR ARMY IN FRANCE "Lest-the-account-I-have-given-of-these-very-large-forces solid assurances can be circumvent-native land, their Island home and danger in principle and in a slightly

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should raise the question why they did not take part in the great battle for France, I must make it clear that apart from the divisions' training and organising at home, only 12 were equipped to fight upon a scale which justified their having been sent abroad. "They were fully up to the number which the French had OUR NAVY WILL BEAT NAZIS been led to expect would be available in France in the ninth month "Our forces at home will, of course, steadily increase every

of the war.

week.

across and thrown ashore at several

efficacy

of

"An invasion of Great Britain labroad and are still abroad. would require the transportation The Navy has never pretended to across the seas of hostile armies be able to prevent raids by hodies of upon a very large scale. After 5,000 or 10,000 men lung suddenly they had been so transported points on the coast on dark nights or they would have to be continually foggy mornings. maintained with all the mass of "The

sca-power, munitions and supplies' required especially under modern conditions,

depends on the invading force being} for a continuous battle, as con-of a large size. It has to be of a tinuous battle it would be.

large size in view of our military "After All Wo Have The Navy" strength to be of any use. And when "Here is where we come to the is of a large size, the Navy have, something they can find, something Navy.

"After all we have the Navyr they can meet.

Big Problems Of Invasion (Cheers).

"We must remember five divisions,

"Some people seem to forget that. For more We must remind them. than 30 years, I have been concerned in discussions about the possibility of an oversens invasion.

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Eddie Carrol & swing music.

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Better Defences the Admiralty (Laughter) whose "There remains the danger of "Meanwhile, however, we have lu- prise duty and responsibility is to bombing attempts which will certain creased enormously our methods of destroy any large sea-borne ex-y be made upon us very soon by defence and we have learnt what we had no right to assume at the begin- pedition before it reaches or at the bomber forces of the enemy.

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Individuni moment it reaches these shores, "It would not be useful to go into force is superior In number to ours superiority of our aircraft and our

but we have a very large bomber pilots.

"Therefore, in casting up this dread They might even suggest idens to force also (cheers) which we shall other people that they had not use to strike at military targets in balance sheet and contemplating our

dangers with a disillusioned mind, thought of and they would not be Germany without intermission.

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"During the Arst four years of the country- be devoted to the subject because the men will show themselves capable of last why, the Allies experienced enemy is crafty, cunning and full of standing up to it like the brave men nothing but disaster and disappoint- of Barcelona (Labour cheers). They ment and yet at the end their morale novel treacheries and stratagems.

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was higher than that of the Germans it and carry on In The House may rest assured spite of it and at least as well as any who had moved from one aggressive

other

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people in the world.

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this and imagina- utmost tion is being evoked by a large have a chance to show the

every man, and every woman will

"During that war, finest

we repeatedly number of competent officers, who qualities of their race and render the asked ourselves a question: How are well-trained and thoroughly highest service of their cause.

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"All of us at this time, whatever ever able to answer it with much pre- our sphere, our status, our occupa cision until at the end, quite sudden- on or our duty, will do well to re-ly and unexpectedly, our terrible foe member that fainous line 'He nothing collapsed before us, and we were so leommon did. Our Powerful Air Force

or menn, upon that titted with victory that in our folly

we cast it away,' ¡memorable scene."

(Loud Cheers). "But we have a very powerful Air "I have thought it right on this oc- "We do not yet know what will even Force which has proved itself far caslon to give the House and the happen in France or whether Halitly superior in quality, both in men and country some Indication of the solid French resistance will be prolonged equipped, would require 200 to 250 in the many types of machines, to practical grounds upon which we bose both in France and in the French Em ships and with modern alr

ro- what connaissance it would not be easy numerous flerce

we have met so far in the four inflexible resolve to continue the pira oversens. "I took the responsibility on behalf

air battles which way. I can assure them that alle throwing away great opportunities to equip such an Armada, marshal have been fought.

"The French Government will be of the Admiralty at the beginning of

it, and conduct it across the sea,

professional advisers of the three the Inst war of allowing all the

without any powerful naval force considerable

"In France, where we were at “เด

services 'unitedly advise that we and casting away their future if they regular troops to be sent out of the

disadvantage in exposing should do so and that there are good do not continue the war in accord- to escort i country although our territorials had

many mochines on the ground In and reasonable hopes of final victory, ance with their treaty obligations "And there would be a very great aerodromes, we were accustomed to (Cheers). only just been called up and were

from which we have not felt able to quite untrained.

possibility that it would be intercept-inflict a loss of from 'two and two- "Italy is also coming to gain sea ed long before it reached the constand-a-half to one,

Dominions' Support

release them,

Permanent Friendship

: superiority in these waters. If that and that the men would be drowned "In the fighting at Dunkirk, which "We have also fully informed and is seriously intended, I can only say or blown to pleces with their equip was a sort of No-Man's-Land, we un consulted all self-governing

"The House will have read the that we shall be delighted to offer ment while trying to land.

doubtedly beat the German Air Force minions. (Cheers). And I have re-historic declaration in whtel, at the Mussolini A safeguarded passage We also have a great system of and gained mastery of the local air selved from their Prime Ministers, desire of many Frenchmen and of our through Straits of Gibraltar in mine-felds which were recently Infleting a loss on the enemy of three Mr. Mackenzle King, Mr. R. Gown hearts, we have proclaimed our order tha he may play the part he strongly reinforced, Through these or four to one.

Menzien, Mr. Peter Fruzer and Willingness to conclude at the unricest Aspires to

in French General Stauts, messages couched in "Anyone who looks at the photo- the most moving terms in which they common citizenship. Genuine Curiosity

graphs, published a week or so endorse our "There is genuine curiosity In

decision and

However, matters "If the enemy tries to sweep pas- at the embarkation, on secing the themselves ready to share our fer-France or with the French Govern the British Flect to find out whe-sages through these minefields it will masses of troops assembled on the tunes and persevere to the end. ther the Italians are up to the level be the task of the Navy to destroy beach forming

ment or another French Government, an ideal torget for at which they were in the last war, his mine-sweepers and any other hours at a time must realise that this what way has our position become Empire will never lose our scrise of "We may now nk ourselves in we in this island and in the British (Laughter) or whether they have forces employed to protect them. re-embarkation would not have been fallen off at all (Renowed laugh- Should Present No Difficulty

friendship with the French people. There ought to be no difficulty in ed all hope of recovering air that the Germans have conquered a

possible unless the enemy had resign-wore since the beginning of the

"It has become worse by the fret Therefore it seems to me that nathis owing to our great superiority at superiority at that point,

a sez-borno invasion on a great sea,

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large part of the coast ling of western scale is concemed we are far more

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"In defence of this Island the ad-have been overrun by them. were at many perioda during the last have relied during many years in great and we shall hope to improve of air attacks and add to our naval This aggravates the possibl|es war and during the early months of recent wars. this war before our other troops were i

upon the rate of three or four to one preoccupations.· "Dut the question is whether there which we realised in Dunkirk. trained and while the BEF.

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