"What could be more fantastic, for instance, than the rumour with which the Germans are feeding their hungry people today. They are telling the wretched, enslaved nation, who are as hungry for good tidings as for bread and butter, that the King is packing up his trunks and leaving for Canada immediately. Such rumours make us laugh, but other rumours, only little less absurd, might make some faint-hearted people tremble.
"We at home should be as prepared to receive bad news, as those in the battle line are prepared to receive the enemj's bullets,"
The Minister of Information appealed to people not to go about with long faces as though at a funeral, Concluding, he said: "Let each one of us throw 100 per cent, of our energies into whatever task we have to perform, Let us keep our hearts gay, our spirits high and confident in the justice of our cause, and in Our own ability to win through to victory, as in all our long glorious history we have never failed to do,"—Reuter,
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