BATTLE OF LONDON

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1940, Page 7

BATTLE OF LONDON

British Official Wireless.

SUPREME ORDEAL FACED

Rugby, Sept. 15. The Battle of London as an incident but a supreme incident in the preliminaries of the battle of Britain is the subject of Sunday newspaper editorials. The Sunday Times writes: "Ever since j France went out of the war and the British Empire was left to wage it alone two things have been evident to thinking men; first, that Britain can win; second, that on the way to victory she must face and surmount a supreme ordeal. After months of waiting the ordeal is now on her. Beyond it lies victory if she holds fast." The paper adds that over many of the ! harrowing scenes witnessed in the past t week has risen the bravery of common ' English folk refusing to be conquered and j blossoming under trial into the flower of j self-sacriflce and mutual aid such as only I a very great people indeed can compass. j J. L. Garvin in the Observer savs he ls quite confident there will be no flinching at the paying of the unavoidable price of success and salvation. Three-quarters of the huge region covered by London and its suburbs shows no scrious trace of the enemy. Only a minute percentage of its millions of inhabitants has been struck. It would take more than the Nazis to possess or conccive to wreck this wonderful city, much less daunt lts soul.