TENSE WITH HOPE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1941, Page 6

TENSE WITH HOPE

FRANCE ON ARMISTICE DAY BROADCAST BY DE GAULLE. DAY OF VENGEANCE COMING. (British Official Wireless.) ' (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) RUGBY, November 11. “The whole of France, on this Armistice anniversary, has, despite the shame of disaster, and the sufferings of servitude and the ignominy of triumphant found herself again—tense with the hope • of victory and the oath of vengeance,” said "General de Gaulle, broadcasting. “She sees that the enemy is indeed powerless to reduce our staunch and brave ally, England,” he continued. “She sees the German armies held in check on every foot of the immense Russian front. She sees America advancing step by step towards the battlefields. She sees growing Allied forces gathering on every front in the world to crush the invader. She sees • her own flags proudly held by loyal soldiers enlisting among the combaants.”

CROSS OF LIBERATION

PRESENTED TO NANTES. FINE EXAMPLE OF COURAGE & FIDELITY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) RUGBY, November 11. General de Gaulle awarded a Cross of Liberation to the town, of Nantes. The citation describes Nantes as “an heroic town which, since the crime of capitulation, has bitterly resisted every form of collaboration with the enemy. Occupied by the Germans and subjected to the severest measures of oppression, the town, by numerous individual and collective acts, has given a magnificent example of courage and fidelity to all Frenchmen. Through the blood of her martyred children, Nantes has proved to the whole world the strength of the determination of the French people to liberate our country.”