LOYAL TO BRITAIN

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 257, 27 September 1940, Page 7

LOYAL TO BRITAIN

FRENCH CAMEROONS. ENCOURAGING MESSAGE. (United Press Association—Copyiight.) (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 26. “Frenchmen in the Cameroons who have learnt of the recent events at Dakar take this opportunity to affirm to the British Prime Minister their determination to continue the struggle against Germany side by side with the British Government,” states a message received by the Premier (Mr Churchill) from Duala to-day. “In their view, the Frenchmen subservient to Vichy are Hitler’s allies and are accepting the leadership of traitors who will one day pay dearly for their treason.” Mr Churchill has replied: “I have received the telegram sent by representatives in the French C-ameroons of ex-servicemen of the last and the present war, of the officers and soldiers of the Forces, administrators, civil servants, doctors, police, merchants, colonists, planters, and missionaries, declaring their intention to fight on until victory is won. “In the name of the British Government I wish to thank them for their encouraging message and to tell them of the pleasure it gives me to know that they will continue to struggle side by side with the British Empire until France is freed and restored, and the shadow of German tyranny is driven from the lace of the earth for ever.”