MESSAGE TO POLES

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21190, 13 August 1940, Page 7

MESSAGE TO POLES

DAMAGE IN GERMANY FIRES OF DESTRUCTION CONFIDENCE IN BRITAIN (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON. August 11 Broadcasting in the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Polish news service to-night, the Minister of Economic Warfare, Dr. Hugh Dalton, said: “Day by day the British Air Force flies over Germany, dropping bombs on aerodromes, aircraft factories, oil stores and refineries, blast furnaces, railways and docks. Every night British aircraft light fires of destruction the flames from which are seen by Germans more than 100 miles away.

“Soon we shall dominate the air over Germany just as at the beginning: of this war the Germans dominated the air over Poland. From that day the complete defeat of Germany will follow soon.

“On land the Polish Army stands side by side with the British Army and with contingents from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Czechoslovakia and France,” he said. “These are soldiers of the army of liberation. When we have drowned and destroyed any Germans who attempt to invade our island, when we have conquered the air over Germany, we shall call at the chosen moment to all whom Hitler has enslaved and tortured to rise and greet the armies which will land from England upon the shores of Europe.”