ALLIED OBJECTIVE IN WAR

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20063, 9 October 1939, Page 11

ALLIED OBJECTIVE IN WAR

END OF RULE BY VIOLENCE ANTHONY EDEN VOICES EMPIRE HOPE FINANCE OF NEW ARMY IN POLAND RAIN CHECKS OPERATIONS IN WEST (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. October 7, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON. October 6. Tbe Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, Mi. Anthony Eden, in an Empire broadcast, said: “We are not fighting to preserve the old world, but to build a new one in which moral and spiritual values will prevail. I thought that ive had won such a victory in 1918. This time, God willing, we will not fail. “I feel no doubt of the ultimate victory with the answer from millions of the peoples of the Empire ringing in our ears. Tbe Empire is fighting to end the rule of violence and win the behefits of civilisation for men and women everywhere. ’ ’ t It is announced that £5,000,000 which Britain agreed to lend to Poland on September 7 but which had not left Britain, will now be used for war purposes by General Sikorski’s Government. France has agreed to lend Poland 600,000,000 francs under the same agreement. / The Paris correspondent of The Times states that.the first contingent of the newly-recruited Czechoslovakian Army has gone into eamp to undergo training under its own officers. A Paris message states that heavy downpours of rain almost brought operations on the Western Front, both on the land and in tbe air, to a standstill. The Brussels correspondent of the'British United Press States that Germany continues massing ti’oops along the Belgian frontier. A communique issued in Berlin refers to “little artillery activity on the Western Front in the daytime.”