GIBRALTAR RAIDED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 228, 25 September 1940, Page 8

GIBRALTAR RAIDED.

Premature Report By Berlin News Agency. FRENCH DENY STATEMENT. (Reed, noon.) LONDON, Sept. 24. The Berlin news agency reports that 120 French warplanes stationed at Morocco heavily bombarded. Gibraltar as a reprisal for the British bombardment of Dakar. It ie officially stated in Vichy that the reported bombing of Gibraltar is untrue. No reprisals so far have been taken, but French reprisals are imminent and will be vigorous.

FEED NAZI ARMY. Rationing Of French-Public Rouses Discontent. GOVERNMENT UNPOPULAR. (Reed. 2 p f m.) . LONDON, Sept. 24. "The Times" correspondent on the .French frontier says new rationing regulations have dismayed the French population, which is not aware that conditions are critical. The average Frenchman considers that 100 grammes of rice a month for his children and 100 grammes of fat and 100 grammes of cheese far below the safe minimum, while 125 grammes of soap a month per capita is believed to be danger one to health. '.. France must, deliver to the German of occupation all the army's bread and^'par^ol^thit l meat requirements. Discontent is highest in "the towns where the severity of the rationing has increased the unpopularity of the Petain Government, which,-as a; precaution, has withdrawn civil government from the five chief towns in unoccupied France.