LAST BATTLE OF WAR
WILL BE FOUGHT IN FRANCE ACCORDING TO GENERAL DE GAULLE. GREAT GROWTH IN ALLIED STRENGTH. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY-, July 3. “The last battle in this war will take place in France,” said the Free French leader, General de Gaulle, in a broadcast from London. “In this battle,” he continued, “France will play a decisive part. Let every Frenchman prepare. This is his sole duty.” After sketching the position in the Atlantic, the Middle East, and the Far East. General de Gaulle declared that the Allied forces which the enemy would have to destroy before he could dictate his orders were five times as great as those which were able to oppose him last year, and in the past year the enemy had los t ten times more men than in the two preceding years, while every three months the weight of bombs dropped on German territory increased threefold.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1942, Page 4
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