STOP MILLIONS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20111, 4 December 1939, Page 7

STOP MILLIONS

DEFENCES IN FRANCE IMPREGNABLE BARRIERS HITLER’S NEW METHODS NAZI TACTICS ASSAILED (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY. Dec. 2. Colonel Denys Reitz, the Minister o£ Native Affairs who was the South African representative at the recent Empire discussions in London, in a broadcast address in Afrikaans from London, said the fortifications on ffre British front and the Maginot Line were impregnable. Ten million soldiers could not break through them. “Herr Hitler now realises this and his troops are holding back and making no effort to attack France,” he declared. “Herr Hitler will now try to win, the war by sowing mines in the seas and by the more intense use of submarines. These measures may cause a good deal of damage before they can be overcome, but they will not win the war, as effective counter-measures will be taken. "There are more ships at sea to-day than motor-cars in Johannesburg, and I do not believe that Germany will achieve her objects by such methods. “I have further seen what is being clone in England and France in regard to building fleets, military strength and other activities, and I can only say that this is surely the greatest war effort in the history of the world. The French and English do not boast. They do not rave and bluster on the radio all day long, but they are determined to put an end to a policy of force and plunder Under Which no nation or country can feel safe. “Fellow South Africans, remember one thing: If that system of vultures and robbers were to triumph, our freedom, our language and all we hold dear would be lost.’"