FRENCH ARMY OF LIBERATION

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23944, 11 May 1943, Page 4

FRENCH ARMY OF LIBERATION

AMERICA SUPPLYING EQUIPMENT \ (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, J The Algiers radio has annotated that General Giraud took .the- saTl* at a military parade in Algiers aixmy the celebration ■of the TuniWjVW tory and of Joan of Arc Day. {He also reviewed war material ' plied to a French unit, including heavy and light tanks, armoured cars, lorries, guns, and automatic arms. Tne “French Army of Liberation filed past to marches played by the Foreign Legion and Senegalese bands. The correspondent of the Associated Press at Casablanca says; "The United States is providing tanks, guns, apa equipment, and is planning to build* great French Army m North Africa. When this rearmament is completed « French Atmy of at least 11, division' will be equipped with the latest implements of war and trained in American combat methods. . “Two French armoured and tnr« infantry divisions are already’ armed in North Africa, in addition to tana, anti-aircraft, and reconnaissance Battalions, a parachute regiment, mb fighter and dive-bomber groups. General Giraud, broadcasting France from the Algiers radio, “In a few days no German will & left on Tunisian soil. To-morrow tt fortress of Europe will be attecKea. He warned Frenchmen not to give me Germans any pretext for savage ana bloody reprisals,” but to wart un we are ready to fight together.