NEW FRENCH ORDER

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 69, 14 December 1939, Page 9

NEW FRENCH ORDER

Awaiting The Issue With Increased Efforts LONDON, December 12. The Commander-in-Cbief of the Allied Forces, General Gamelin, sent a message to the British Commander-in-Chief Lord Gort, enclosing a new order issued to the French Army, in which the order of October 14 warning the army to be prepared to face a general German offensive, then considered imminent, is recalled. The new order states: “Their preliminary action started, but our dispositions prevented developments. We have since seen Germany increase her preparations, but up to the present they have not dared to launch a general offensive. Meanwhile, we await the issue with increased efforts.” The French Press hails the news that British troops are occupying a section of the Maginot Line. It is stated that friendship between the French and British troops is even more apparent in 1939 than it was in 1914. BELGIAN NEUTRALITY Modification If Holland Attacked (Received Deeemoer 13, 8.30 p.m.) BRUSSELS, December 12. The Foreign Affairs Committee approved a report declaring that the conditions on which Belgium's neutrality was based would have to be modified if Holland were attacked. UNIDENTIFIED PLANES Gibraltar Air-Raid Alarm GIBRALTAR, December 12. For the second time in the war, airraid alarms were sounded when four unidentified aeroplanes appeared from the south, changed their course, and disappeared.