20.7.41. - No. 1.

BRITISH PRISONERS IN ENEMY HANDS

Next of kin, if able to identify the men from the information published, are requested to advise the Casualty Branches of the Services concerned, forwarding Regimental or any other details.

The following is tho latest list of British prisoners of war as received from enemy sources:-

CAPTURED IN GREECE

Corporal Charles BOOTH Birmingham Trooper Harold TYLER Hereford (Earford ?) Sapper Reginald BARKER Birmingham L/Corporal Norman LINCH Liverpool Driver John HOWARD Norfolk Driver George HACKETT Driver Harold BARLOW Short Heath Driver Lance MARTIN Earl Shilton Driver Ernest NEWTON Birmingham Driver Edward WEDGE Manchester Driver Thomas QUINEY Stafford Driver Albert JONES Blackheath Driver Thomas HOLDEN Wednesbury Driver John HOOPER Walsall Staff Qm.Sgt. Edward HODGES Brighton Sergeant George CLARK Newark Sergeant Joe HUDSON Nottingham Sergeant John CRABTREE Worksop Trooper Steve HILL Charlton Trooper John SMALE Hindley Trooper Edward TASKER Tadley Trooper Raymond SEXTON Nottingham Trooper John ATTENBOROUGH Nottingham Trooper Donald DOWES Nottingham Trooper Thomas WISE Liverpool Trooper John DENTON Hibaldstow Trooper Victor JACKSON Waltham-on-Wold Trooper Raymond MARRIOTT Knipton Trooper Claude HOMM (or POND?) Norwich Trooper Norman PRICE Newark Trooper Reuben WILSON Morecambe Trooper Albert STOKES Newark Trooper James KEYNES Carmarthen Corporal James BARCLAY Edinburgh Corporal Frederick HAMER Salford 6, L/Corporal Gilbert OFPORD Wembley Sapper Henry QUEEN Denton. Sapper Norman MARTIN Preston Sapper Ernest DOWNES Shrewsbury John KIRHILL (or CURFILL) Cowdenbeath

/Pte. John Ivison 2

Private John IVISON Peterborough. Driver Victor TOTMAN Croydon Qm. Sergeant Brenthall HAIMER Gravesend Staff Sergeant Harold NORFOLK Enfield L/Sergeant Leslie FEATHER Lincoln L/Cpl. Neville CHESTERTON Wednesbury L/Cpl. Ernest MASTERMAN Thornton Heath James L/Cpl. SWAYNEPOOL Salisbury Sapper Robert BERRY Wigan Alec Sapper SCOTT Sheffield Sapper Basil BERRY Hull Driver Patrick EGAN Bulford Sapper Joseph HALLIWELL Oldham Driver Frederick HARRIS Stow-on-the-Wold Driver Frank MITCHELL Chester Driver Stanley TURNER Bristol Sapper Clive BRADBURY Stafford Sergeant James BIRCHETT Eastbourne Cpl. HOOK Benjamin Reading Ronald Cpl. HODSON Manchester Sergeant Charles BARTLETT Weymouth William Sergeant VALLANCE Weymouth Cpl. Fred. COOPER Weymouth L/Cpl. Walter SLENLAY Cleethorpes L/Cpl. John MARTIN Portland L/Cpl. Joseph O'CONNOR Weymouth 1st Class Warrant Eric MORRIS Southampton Staff Sergeant John BROWN Neasden N.W.10 Staff Sergeant Ernest GOODWIN Sheffield Staff Sergeant Fred KERNICK Wigan Staff Sergeant Eric MARKS St.Helens, Isle of Wight. Staff Sergeant Bertie SAUNDERS Clapton, E.5. Staff Sergeant Robert WADDELL Coatbridge Sergeant Herbert HARRIS Manchester 10 Sergeant Jim YOUNG Gloucester Cpl. David FRASER Chester Lance Cpl. Eric FERNSIDE Bingley L/Cpl. Sidney LIVERLAND Burton-on-Trent L/Cpl. Wilfred SMITH Chelsea L/Cpl. Donald LUCKITT Elgin Cpl. William WHITTINGHAM Liverpool 17 L/Cpl. David RAYNOR Ruislip L/Sgt. Idwell PUGH Aberystwytii Sapper Morris KERNAY Coleford Sapper Charles FORD Birkenhead Sapper Walter WOOLS (or WILLS) Sapper George WOOD Gateshead Driver Sidney BURRER Norwich Driver Charles MASON Birkenhead Sapper John READER Bedford Sapper Cecil DORRAN Manchester 10 Sapper Thomas McHUGH Tallow Sapper Norman DIVALL Ringmill Sapper Raymond POSTER Sunderland Driver Wilfred BLAKE Chester Driver George BEALE London Harry DRAKE Winchester Sapper Edward FRATTON Bristol Sergeant Christopher WILKIN Potters Bar Sergeant Harold LINGARD Northenden 20/7/41 No. 2.

Air Ministry No. 4544

AIR MINISTRY AND MINISTRY OF HOME SECURITY COMMUNIQUE

Very few enemy aircraft flew inland last night.

Bombs were dropped at two points in the Midlands causing little damage and no casualties. 20/7/41 No. 7.

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, USED ON CLUB TAPES, OR CABLED

ABROAD BEFORE 0030 ON MONDAY, 21st JULY, 1941.

Simultaneous publication in India and U.S.A. has been arranged.)

INDIA APPOINTS AGENT-GENERAL IN U.S.A.

In the special circumstances of the war the Government of the United States of America and His Majesty's Government in consultation with the Government of India have agreed to a reciprocal exchange of repre- sentatives between the U.S.A. and India.

The name of the United States representative in India will be announced very shortly.

To represent India in the United States in the new post now created the Governor-General has appointed the Honourable Sir Girja Shankar Bajpai, K.B.E., C.I.E., now a Member of his Executive Council, who will be styled Agent-General for India in the United States of America and who, it is understood, will take up his duties in the early autumn.

INDIA OFFICE 20.7.41. - No.8.

"V" FOR VICTORY

Produced by

Robert Kemp

Following is the text of the "V" Broadcast to be given in B.B.C. & Home Forces Programme after the 6 p.m. News: it will also be broadcast in Overseas Service.

Opening Announcement

One day towards the end of last January Belgian listeners picked up from London a that a suggestion chalk mark "V" was quickly scribbled, and stood for victory.

Soon we heard that Vs were appearing on walls and paving stones all over and Belgium that it was spreading fast over the frontier into Northern France. This was news for all France and the French were told of it.

It sounds a to slight thing do, but life under the eyes of the enemy is so galling that any way of expressing, however simply, hatred of the German, and hope of an allied victory, is a great encouragement.

all over Vs Soon, France, were to be seen and then the habit spread over occupied Europe in every language where "V" stands for victory, freedom, or the idea of steadfastness in the fight.

Not so very long ago, a new idea arose. You are now going to hear an of English version what we told our French listeners. The first part tells of the success of their "V" campaign and the second part explains the new idea.

Flourish: L'Air des V. 5th Symphony)

ANNOUNCER: Frenchmen, we know how quick-witted you are. We know all the tricks you play on the Germans and on their so- called "collaborators".

Carry on with them.

You workers who have been forced to labour for the enemy, even in enemy territory, remember advice: "Temper your zeal with caution". Do what you can, but carefully. And whenever any of you hear of some new move by the Vichy Government in the way of collaboration, write to your leaders telling them what you think of them and of their overlord Hitler.

There are a hundred other ways of annoying your oppressors.

One fellow paid an organ-grinder to go and play the same tune for an hour under the window of a local German

governor.

Remember that you, together with the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Dutch, the Belgians, the Serbs and the Greeks, are all members of the Great Silent Arny: an army without uniforms, an army of unrecognised , an any of the night whose rallying sign is the letter V, the letter which stands for Victory; the letter V which the Gestapo wipes out each night only to find it back again in the morning all the way from the North Cape to the Dardanelles.

If the Cross of Lorraine is the emblem of Free France, the letter V is the sign of the fellowship of all the oppressed nations.

Do not forget our slogan: (Disc: 1st V. Slogan) (Contd.) - 2 -

DIALOGUE

1st VOICE: It’s no longer necessary to ask Frenchmen to write up the letter V. V's are flourisliing everywhere. V’s in charcoal.

2nd VOICE: V’s in chalk.

1st VOICE: V’s in paint. They're harder to rub out.

2nd VOICE: V’s inside Which are found stick-ons with ”France

for the French” and "Huns back to Hunland" on them.

1st VOICE: At Tarbes, where Foch came from Tarbes, the birth place of the Conqueror, will have nothing to do with collaborators.

2nd VOICE: In Paris, posters have appeared in which most of the words begin with such enormous V’s that the authorities have ordered them to be taken down.

1st At Niort whole town an VOICE: the was punished by eight o’clock curfew because of the number of V’s there.

2nd VOICE: All along the River Loire the house shutters have the letter V on them.

1st VOICE: At Bayonne, V’s have appeared on German cars

2nd VOICE: In another town a glazier cut a huge, V on a German windscreen.

1st VOICE: At another place in France, a poster appeared bearing the effigy of Petain, the Victor of Verdun, who now makes, pilgrimages to Montoire by Hitler’s order. This, too, was covered by V’s.

2nd VOICE: Since the surrender of Syria, H’s have appeared beside the V’s, H for honour, that honour which, according to retain, forbade us to make any move against our former ally.

1st VOICE: The German-controlled Press can no longer ignore the resistance of the French people and tries to make fun of the V’s.

2nd VOICE: In Paris there have been 6,200 prosecutions for V’s and Lorraine Crosses. The Gestapo makes the concierges wash out seditious inscriptions. But they come back again.

1st VOICE: In a French village a peasant placed his hand on a German ’s shoulder, as though by accident. And a white V appeared on the field-grey tunic. The peasant had chalked a V on his own hand, which he had transferred to the enemy’s back!

the cads who 2nd VOICE: Radio-Paris sneers at what they call paint V’s on the walls.

1st VOICE: But V’s are flourishing at hide tool

at sites for which 2nd VOICE: V’s grow like mushrooms Angouleme on before the war advertisers would have paid their weight and French are in gold. Of course the Germans Police on the culprits’ heels the whole time. Every inscription found is immediately white-washed over. You should see the white-washed areas in Angouleme!

draw on those 1st VOICE: Besides, think how tempting it is to V’s lovely white spaces. contd. 3

2nd VOICE: The other morning a detective was walking down a street carrying a rag with which to rub out V’s. Every now and then he dipped it in the gutter and rubbed out any inscriptions that were easy to deal with, A bold house- wife said to him, 'You’ve got your work cut out there’. 'Don’t talk to me about it', replied the detective. 'If find I could the fellows who put these things up, I’d give them what for. Not for the inscriptions themselves. I don’t give a hoot for those, but because of the work they give us.'

1st VOICE: We’ve had a letter from Roanne which said: ’One day it will be remembered that the letter V also means Vengeance. I

have taken care to let our radio announcers know.

2nd VOICE: Chalk V’s are easy to rub out. V’s in indelible pencil

are more difficult.

1st VOICE: - And in tar even more so. There were some beauties in Nimes, just in front of the Hotel Imperator.

2nd VOICE: In the Champagne district nothing but V’s and more V’s, everywhere, on the walls, on the roadway and on the telegraph poles.

1st VOICE: In Orleans a notice is printed on the covers of school children’s copy-books, telling them not to write inscriptions on the walls and threatening them with imprisonment and deportation to Germany if they are caught red-handed.

their 2nd VOICE: At Rennes people wear V’s under the lapels of coats.

1st VOICE: In Marseilles, in spite of strict orders by the Mayor, V’s appeared even on the walls of the town-hall and on the sides of German and Italian trains.

2nd VOICE: At Versailles, a boy was expelled from the High School for drawing a V on the front door.

1st VOICE; There are V’s on a hotel door in Aix-en-Provence occupied by Germans.

2nd VOICE: V’s on the door of the German Headquarters near Rouen

1st VOICE: A Normandy school-mistress writes to tell us that she has

drawn V ’s all over her town.

2nd VOICE: V’s at Dordogne.

1st VOICE: V’s at Villefranche, on the Rhone

2nd VOICE: V’s at the Ain district

1st VOICE: V’s at Lyons.

2nd VOICE: V’s at Nice.

1st VOICE: V’s in unoccupied as well as in occupied France.

2nd VOICE: The battle of the V's is won!

(Music - Symphony)

1st VOICE: And what shall we do now?

2nd VOICE: Go on drawing V’s?

1st VOICE: Yes, go on drawing V's.

contd. 4

2nd VOICE: And then?

Ist VOICE: And then you can sing V’s,

2nd VOICE: How? Just V,V,V,V,V,V? Like that?

Ist VOICE: Ho, You know the wireless?

2nd VOICE: Of course,

1st VOICE: You know the Morse alphabet?

2nd VOICE: Yes, dots and dashed, da-da-da-da,

1st VOICE: You know what V is in Morse?

2nd VOICE: I think I do, Wait a second. Three dots and a dash.

(V sound in Morse)

1st VOICE: You can tap it on windows, (V sound)

2nd VOICE: You can call the waiter in your cafe by tapping your spoon against your glass, (V sound)

1st VOICE! Or by tapping on the bar with a coin,. (V sound)

2nd VOICE! Besides, there, are tunes which have that very rhythm.

(V sound repeated several times, followed by the, opening bars of the Vth Symphony)

1st VOICE: That’s Beethoven’s fifth symphony. You can hear the rhythm, It’s the rhythm of the letter V. In future its rhythm will mean VICTORY. And when it is played at concerts one can applaud like this:

(Clapping in the V rhythm)

2nd VOICE: Beethoven’s fifth symphony; 5 is a V in Roman figures. On our clocks 5 o’clock is shown by a V,

1st VOICE: Five o'clock is the V hour.

2nd VOICE; You hear the rhythm (Burden of V symphony)Three short, one long. The Morse V,

1st VOICE; The Germans will never dare play the Fifth Symphony again, (Hums)

(contd) -5-

SONG

Do not give way Never despair We'11 get them yet Hitler,beware! Do not forget

Chalk up a V On every wall Till you are free At work or play Hum it all day v,v,v,v, On every post Show what you mean On every street V 's must be seen Show the vile Hun That you've no fear And that you know Victory's near Do not forget "We'll get them yet" v,v,v,v.

(Music of the 5th Symphony in the background)

1st VOICE: And every sound In life can be turned into a V. Listen to the schoolmistress calling.

WOMAN'S VOICE: Come along children! (Claps her hands. to V rhythm)

Listen to the typewriter. (V sound)

The postman at the door.

And to the smith on his anvil. (V sound)

And to the postmistress's date-stamp. (V sound)

To the front door bell. (V sound)

To laughter in cinemas or music-halls. (V sound)

Drummer. (V sound)

The policeman's whistle* (V sound)

Motor cars, (V sound)

Engines. (V sound)

Even animals can play their part, (Dog)

Sledge-hammers. (V sound)

The station master’s whistle. (V sound)

Trains. (V sound)

Yes, everything in Prance and in oppressed Europe must proclaim its will to resistance, its faith in Victory for the Allies,

(V sounds of all sorts with the V Symphony in background) BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION 20/7/41 - No. 12

MIDDLE EAST WAR COMMUNIQUE

The following official communique has been issued today from G.H.Q., Cairo:-

LIBYA Apart from artillery activity on "both sides there is nothing of importance to report from the Tobruk area. In the frontier area, our patrols succeeded in recovering and towing in an enemy armoured car which was damaged in the action reported yesterday.

ABYSSINIA Nothing to report.

SYRIA Our occupation of the Northern area is continuing smoothly.

MINISTRY OF INFORMATION 20/7Al. - No.

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ABROAD IN ANY WAY UNTIL 0030 D.B.S.T. MONDAY JULY 21.

GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS.

The King has been pleased to approve the following appointments;—

President of the Board of Education The Rt. Hon. Richard Austen Butler, M.P.

Minister of Information The Rt. Hon. Brendan Bracken, M.P.

the Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster ...... The Rt. Hon. A.Duff Cooper,

D .S.O., M.P.

Paymaster-General...... The Rt. Hon. Lord Hankey, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office Richard Kidston Law, Esq., M.P.

Financial Secretary, War Office Edwin Duncan Sandys, Esq., M.P.

Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Information...... Ernest Thurtle Esq., M.P.

Arrangements are being made for an additional Parliamentary Under- secretary of State at the Air Ministry and the King has been pleased to approve that Sir Hugh Seely, Bt., M.P. be appointed to this Office when the necessary arrangements are completed.

Mr. Duff Cooper is proceeding to the Far East charged with the task of examining, on behalf of the , the present arrangements for consultation and co-ordination between the various British Authorities, military, administrative and political, in those regions, and of reporting to them how these arrangements can be made more effective.

Lord Hankey, as , will continue to perform the special duties now assigned to him, which include the Chairmanship of a number of War Cabinet Committees.

The King has also been pleased to approve that the Rt. Hon. Herwald Ramsbotham, O.B.E., M.C., be appointed Chairman of the Unemployment Assistance Board in succession to the Rt. Hon. Lord Rushcliffe, G.B.E., who has retired on the expiration of his term of office; and that the Hon. Harold George Nicolson, C.M.G., M.P., be appointed a Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

The King has been pleased to approve that the dignity of a Barony of the he conferred upon the Rt. Hon. Herwald Ramsbotham, O.B.E., M.C.

The Prime Minister has appointed Colonel George Steven Ha \rvie Watt, M.P., to be his Parliamentary Private Secretary.

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be sworn of The King has been pleased to approve that the following His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council:-

Captain Harold Harington...... Parliamentary Under-Secretary of Balfour, M.C., M.P. State, Air Ministry.

Tom Williams Esq., M.P. Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

Major ,...... Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of M.P. Food.

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Air Ministry Bulletin No. 4549

FIGHTERS FIRE A TANKER

Six Hurricane pilots today attacked an enemy tanker off the French Coast and set it on fire.

Two columns of black smoke, each 50 feet high, were coming from the centre of the tanker as our aircraft flew away.

While this attack was going on, six other Hurricanes poured thousands of machine-gun bullets into a flak ship escorting the tanker.

This attack of is one several that have been made on enemy shipping by our fighters in the last few days.

Half a dozen Hurricanes attacked a flak ship on Saturday, streaking down one after the other from 2,500 feet to 50 feet.

After the fourth of the six fighters had dived, all the guns on the flak ship stopped firing.

Another attack on Saturday was made by a lone fighter pilot on a 1,500 ton motor vessel half a mile from the French Coast. Diving down

nearly to sea level he blazed away with his guns and cannons and stopped firing only when he was nearly hitting the mast.

As he broke away he saw flashes and small explosions followed by smoke, coming from the bridge. The vessel turned at once and made for the shore.

Formations of fighters swept over Northern France today but the few Mes. seen kept their distance except one. This one was shot down. 20.7.41. No. 17

BRITAIN AND GREECE

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE TEXTS OF MESSAGES RECENTLY EXCHANGED BETWEEN

MR. CHURCHILL, THE PRIME MINISTER, AND THE KING OF GREECE:-

From the Prime Minister to the King of Greece:-

"I have been thinking a great deal about Your Majesty in these months of stress, danger and sorrow, and I wish to tell you how much Your Majesty’s bearing amid these vicissitudes has been admired by your many friends in England as well as the nation by at large. The warmest welcome awaits you here where all are resolved to conquer or to perish. It is my confident hope that when the good days come the glory which Greece has won will help to heal the memory of her present suffering."

From the King of Greece to the Prime Minister:-

"It a was great pleasure and comfort to me receiving your kind telegram with thoughts that await me in Great Britain. I am looking forward to meeting you and friends many in England. My country and I are proudly familiar with the gallant British Allies and with God's help are determined to see our cause crowned by success."

THE FOLLOWING MESSAGES WERE RECENTLY EXCHANGED BETWEEN THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, “MR. EDEN, AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE GREEK COUNCIL, M. TSOUDEROS:-

From Mr. Eden to the President of the Council:-

”On your arrival in South Africa I wish to send to Your Excellency my cordial greetings and express my admiration of the determination and tenacity displayed by yourself and the members of your Government in the days of national stress and personal danger through which you have passed. I look forward to a long period of cordial and fruitful collaboration with Your Excellency and I hope to have ere long the honour of making your acquaintance here in London and discussing with you further measures for the prosecution of our joint war effort.

I should like to take this opportunity of paying a special tribute to the valiant people of Crete, the island of Your Excellency's birth. You may count on us to do our utmost to hasten the day of that Island's deliverance and to restore once more freedom to Greece."

From the President of the Council to Mr. Eden:-

"I thank Your Excellency for your courteous message. The members of my Cabinet and myself have been deeply touched by your cordial words.

I am certain that our collaboration will be particularly fruitful and I rejoice at the idea of meeting you in London.

I have been especially moved by the part of your message referring to my native island. Crete did her duty to in conforming to century long traditions and the example which the /country gave during the struggle against the insolent invaders, our common foes.

I am convinced that the Allied armies, which fight to preserve human civili- sation and freedom of thought from brutal violence of the enemy, will also "bring deliverance to my country. The valour of the British and Imperial armies which have already given their proofs is the best guarantee of this."

FOREIGN OFFICE NEWS DEPARTMENT 20/7/41 - No. 20.

Air Ministry No. 4550.

AIR MINISTRY COMMUNIQUE

Our aircraft have been active over the Channel today and formations of fighters flew over Northern France. The weather, however, did not favour large scale operations.

off Fighters attacked an enemy tanker the French coast with their guns, causing a fire to break out, and also attacked an escorting anti-aircraft vessel. The only enemy fighter which approached within the range of our fighters was shot down.

Later in the day, Blenheims of the Bomber Command, with a fighter escort, bombed and hit the same tanker.

From these operations two bombers are missing. 20.7.41 No. 21.

OFFICIAL ADMIRALTY COMMUNIQUE

to The Board of Admiralty regrets announce that H.M. drifters .H. DEVON COUNTY (Skipper Barnard, R.N.R) and LORD St VINCENT J. S. (Skippper Alexander, R.N.R) have been sunk.

of The next-of-kin casualties have been informed.

ADMIRALTY S.W.1.

G 20.7.41 - No. 22,

BRITISH PRISONERS IN ENEMY HANDS

Next of kin, if able to identify the men from the information published, are requested to advise the Casualty Branches of the Services concerned, forwarding Regimental or any other details.

The following is the latest list of British prisoners of war as received from enemy sources:-

IN GERMAN HANDS

Sergeant George David Kingsley JONES, South Morton, Didcot, Berkshire.

Sergeant James BRYCE Lochend Cottage, Minories, Slamanron, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

Sergeant Robert ANDERSON 123, Darwin Road, Bolton, Lancs.

Sergeant Dennis John HARVEY 55, Palmer Park Avenue, Reading, Berks.

MINISTRY OF INFORMATION 20.7.41 No. 23.

"FIGHTERS FIRE A TANKER"

told in the first (Following is an addition to the story three paragraphs of Air Ministry Bulletin No. 4549, (Air Ministry News Service) issued under the above title as M.o.I. No. 16 of today.)

The tanker, which was originally attacked by Hurricanes, Le was later found by Bomber Command Blenheims halfway between escorted Touquet and Berck-sur-Mer, It was strongly by enemy fighters.

It was attacked by our aircraft from mast height and was hit amidships and in the stern. One air gunner described the aft burst as "an immense explosion". A column of smoke was

still visible when our aircraft were well away.

Effective gun-fire from the bombers drove off three enemy aircraft, from one of which black smoke was seen to be pouring.

During a reconnaissance this evening the vessel was found beached half a mile from Berck-sur-Mer. It ans down at the bow out of the stern, the well water, and a trail of oil was drifting seawards.

The destruction of this vessel, which was of about 7,000 Command's tons, brought Bomber week-end bag of enemy vessels to 55,000 tons. 20.7.4l. No. 24.

"V" CAMPAIGN A "COMPLETE SUCCESS"

says Colonel Britton.

Following is the text of a talk to be broadcast by Colonel Britton on the B.B.C, European Service at midnight.

This is Colonel Britton speaking:

I'm here tonight to tell you that a victory has been won. The mobilisation of the V Army against Nazi Germany was a complete

success.

The results have already surpassed all expectations and a vast army now stretches from one end of Europe to other.

The Germans are standing bewildered, and frightened not knowing which direction to face.

The V Army stands steady, confident and patient. There will be no mistakes. We’re in no hurry. the We've today seen one amusing spectacle of/German Vs.

In German 1 letter V stands for

Verboten (forbidden) Verkehrt (upside down) Vergeltung (revenge)

Hitler verreche ( a dog’s death for Hitler)

But it doesn’t stand for SIEG a German Victory.

The Germans were frightened today.

They couldn't stop the Vs. They couldn’t prevent the mobilisation of the V. army. So they had to prevent they liked the Vs.

Well, if Dr. Goebbels likes Vs. I’ve three for him. Let him look up the 5th verse of the 5th chapter of the 5th look of the New Testament.

Vv

Well, soldiers of the V army. I want to thank you for your conduct today, to tell you that we in Britain were with you.

we and And now wait quietly patiently until the time comes.

I'll be talking to you at this time next Friday.

Good luck to the V Army.

MINISTRY OF INFORMATION