GRATEFUL FRENCH

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 161, 7 June 1940, Page 8

GRATEFUL FRENCH

COMRADESHIP STRENGTHENED. (British Official Wireless.)....,;; RUGBY, Jliiie ,o. The King .lias received the following massage from President Lebrun ggy “I have been greatly touched by Your Majesty’s message and every Frenchman will have read it with emotion. The heroism of your Army, Fleet and Air Force are the admiration of their French brothers-jn-arms and the French people. The welcome given by Britain to the French troops and to the wounded, who are being cared for in British hospitals, lias provided a new. example of the comradeship between our two peoples. ‘ln the struggle now going on on the French front, wdiere British and French soldiers of, the Northern Army will fight once more side by side, the solidarity of our two countries and the ideals which tliev hold in common will be made manifest 'yet once more.” FULL AID TO ALLIES. DEMAND IN U.S. SENATE. WASHINGTON, June 5. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee again rejected by 21 votes to two Senator Pepper’s proposal to sell Army and Navy equipment to the Allies. Senator Pepper said he would again make the offer and asserted there -was growing support for such a proposal. /‘The temper of the country demands that the United States give quick and full aid to the “Allies,” lie said. He understood the Allies would appeal to the United States • for such ready-made equipment in a few days. The chairman of the House Military Committee (Mr A. J. May) said the committee might have to consider a Bill to increase the Army’s authorised strength from 280.000 to 375,000, which would obviate President Roosevelt’s militia proposal. The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved a 1,073,000,000 dollars relief Bill with an authorisation for the Civilian Conservation Corps to train newly-enrolled personnel in noncombatant ‘military duties. In the Senate Senator Lodge said he was introducing a Bill to revise the Neutrality Act to permit United States ships to visit all Canadian ports “in the interests of common defence.” The Senate and House Foreign Affairs Committees unanimously approved Mr S. Bloom’s resolution providing for non-recognition of any transfer of territory in the Western Hemisphere between non-American Powers. Mr Roosevelt has asked Congress for 6.558.000 dollars additional to the sum already voted to facilitate the drive against the Fifth Column and to bring aliens under more rigid control, and, it is understood, 3,358.000 dollars for the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 500 new G-men, making the total i over 2000, and the remainder for the ! immigration and naturalisation serjvice. , EVACUATION PLAN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 4. The results of efforts to urge parents in the evacuation areas to register children of school age in case evacuation proves, necessary, were disclosed by the Ministry of Health on Tuesday. As only about one-fifth of those still remaining in these areas are being registered—ll7,ooo out of 500,000 in London, and 17,000 out of 70,000 in Manchester —it has been-, , decided to keep open the facilities for registration so that parents who change their minds may register their children. The Ministry points out that numeious children were killed or injured in Paris yesterday and warns the public that this is an indication of what must be expected if children are allowed to remain in the large towns. DOMINIOFS~MESSAGE. MR CHURCHILL’S REPLY. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 6. The Prime Minister (Hon. P. Fraser) has received the following reply from Mr Churchill in response to the congratulations sent on the success of the evacuation of the British troops from, Belgium: “My warmest thanks for your message, the terms of which are deeply appreciated by us. It will have a most encouraging effect here and I am arranging for it to be communicated to the Press immediately.”