ALERT & WARNING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1943, Page 3

ALERT & WARNING

ADDRESSED TO PEOPLE OF FRANCE POSSIBILITY OF GERMAN TRICKERY. IN SPREADING PREMATURE INVASION REPORTS. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, May 16. The Algiers radio is repeatedly broadcasting’ the following message to France: “Stand by your radios as long as possible during the next few days. Keep them tuned to English, American or Allied stations.” The radio issued a warning that the Germans are likely to spread stories prematurely that an invasion has begun, to induce the patriot Frenchmen to betray themselves. Referring to the taking of his daughter and her children as hostages by the Germans, General Giraud said. "This cowardly act would prove —if there were any need —a further reason for fighting. I know that if Germany were victorious we would all be enslaved for a century. I have not the soul of a slave. Let us constantly remember this. Let us not make the same mistakes as in the past.” The Madrid correspondent of the “Daily Mail” says that patriots lit bonfires on French mountain tops to express popular rejoicing at the Allied victory in Tunisia The news was flashed throughout France like lightning. Hundreds of thousands of copies of the 8.8. C. broadcasts were printed and passed from hand to hand.