London, June 5. GCYY/E shall not flag or fail, we shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, on the seas and oceans," declared the Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, in the House of Commons yesterday.
We shall fight with growing confidence and strength in the air, we shall defend our. island whatever the cost may be (loud cheers). We shall fight on the beaches, on landing grounds, in fields, in streets, in hills.
We shall never surrender (continued cheers).
"Even if—which I don't for a moment believe—this island in a large part were subjugated, starving, then our. Empire, armed] and guarded by the British fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time a new world with all its power and might steps forth to the liberation and rescue of the old.'
Losses in men amounted to 30,000 killed, wounded and missing, Mr. Churchill said, "We lost nearly 1,000 guns. Hitler holds the whole Channel ports. We must expect another blow almost immediately at us or France.
"What has happened in France and Belgium is a colossal military dis-faster, The French Army has. been weakened. Belgium has been lost.
military forces at present in Bri tain are incomparably more powerful than ever before. The British Empire and the French Republic linked together will defend to the death their native sell, aiding each other to the utmost of their strength.
"The House might form its own opinions upon the action of Leopold, who, with consultation, with the east' possible notice, without the ndvice of his Ministers and of his own fact, surrendered his army and our means of retreat (cries of "shame").
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