London, May 22. 3 6¢)\JEWS is grave, but there is no cause for serious alarm, still less for panic," declared Mr. Alfred Duff-Cooper, Minister iB of Information, in a broadcast last night.
"By successful employment of a new technique, small bodies. of the German army have succeeded in penetrating a great distance. But they are small bodies.
The army of Britain and the far greater army of France are still there.
They are neither in retreat nor have suffered heavy loss. It impossible to understand what is happening while the battle is still in progress, We hear that one vantage point has been gained, and another lost, another regained, and out of these sparse scraps of news, imagination is inclined to build vast structures of conjecture.
"Three facts alone can be definite-speeded up.
While the authorities are considering Bey) nile of Pain country railway stations to prevent parachutists Jocating themselves on their maps, civilian defence machinery is being rapidly set up all over the country.
There, is no mistaking the cold, grim determination which the threat that distance. They are being taught restrict his movements until armed men can be brought up.
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