FRANCE'S FUTURE
SUBDIVISION PLAN.
Germany, Italy, Spain And Japan
To Have Share.
REPORT FROM ROME.
(Received 10 a.m.)
ROME, June 18.
It is stated in authoritative quar ters in Rome that the following dia position for France is proposed:—
' (1) Germany to receive Alsace and Lorraine and a generous share of the French colonial possessions.
(2) Italy to receive Savoy, part of Algeria, Corsica, Jibuti and other parts of the French Empire in Africa.
(3) Spain to receive part of French Morocco and possibly part of the Basque country.
(4) Japan to receive certain French possessions in the Far East and the Pacific, notably French Indo-China.
(5) Belgium to receive certain French Chavnel ports, provided that Belgium concludes a close military and political alliance with Germany..
Germany has invited Spain to takepart in the peace negotiations, says a message from Madrid. . Marshal Fetain announced in his broadcast yesterday that France had made contact with Germany through Spain.
The German news agency, discussing France's capitulation, eays it was France's ambition to carve up Germany, whose victory will be based on reality entailing the politico-military destruction of those who have sworn annihilation of Germany.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 144, 19 June 1940, Page 7
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