ARMS BY PARACHUTE
FOK PATRIOTS IN FRANCE LONDON, Feb. 15. "The British are dropping arms by parachute for French" patriots," says the Vichy Minister of Propaganda, Phillips Henriot. "Fourteen parachutes with metal boxes containing arms and explosives were dropped on the night of February 4. A w?~eless set arrived by parachute on Febi-uary 9. with instructions in English. Eighteen boxes, containing 85 tommy-guns, 3400 rounds of ammunition and 25 revolvers were dropped on February 11 at one place. "Two thousand tommy-guns. 570 grenades and 34 Mausers were dropped over the various departments. Another 59 containers filled with arms and ammunition were dropped last Sunday and Monday." Henriot added: "Thus not all the arms for France's civil war dropped by Britain would go to the painful tasks for which they were designed. Some would be used against the bandits themselves." The Vichy radio announced that 25.000 people have been evacuated from the Pas do Calais.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 39, 16 February 1944, Page 5
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