DOMINION’S TRIBUTE.
HEROISM OF FORCES Per Press Association. AA'ELLINGTON, June 2. The following message has been despatched by . the Prime Minister (Hon. P. Fraser) to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Mr AVinston Churchill); “His Majesty’s Government in New Zealand have been following successive accounts of the fighting in Belgium and Northern France, and the evacuation of the British and Allied Forces from the Dunkirk area, with extrenie anxiety and with the most intensive admiration of the heroism, unsurpassed in history, shown by those men upon whom have fallen the rigours of the -rearguard action and the march to the coast, and by all concerned—Navy, Army, Air Force, mercantile l marine and others—in the evacuation itself.
“In their opinion the .firmness and courage displayed in the operations and the efficiency of the organisation involved in a movement of such unprecedented difficulty and magnitude offer a most hopeful augury for the future success of the Allied arms. They feel impelled at once to offer this tribute of their admiration and their warmest congratulations on this wonderful achievement.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 157, 3 June 1940, Page 5
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177DOMINION’S TRIBUTE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 157, 3 June 1940, Page 5
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