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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1943, Page 3

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* ASSURANCE OF COMPLETE VICTORY BUT FINAL PHASES MAY BE LONG & DIFFICULT GENERAL MONTGOMERY’S WAR SURVEY (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright! LONDON, October 25. “The end is in sight. The final phases may be long and difficult, but in the distance we now see complete and absolute victory,” says General Montgomery in a special message commemorating the Battle of El Alamein which he addressed to men who fought with the Eighth Army and are now dispersed among other formations all over the world. “The tremendous events of the past year are probably without parallel in the history of war. The Eighth Army swept everything before it in fighting its way across 3000 miles of country since October, 1942. During all this time it has never had one setback and has never known defeat. It is now clear that we shall win the war. The magnificent victories of the splendid Russian armies and the activities of the other Allied armies throughout the world have made this quite certain.

“Only one thing is necessary for every'one of us —workers in factories and mines and soldiers at the battlefront—we must all continue to pull our full weight in the national war effort. No one must stop work or cease fighting till we have received the enemy’s unconditional surrender.”