LOYAL FORCE

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 239, 4 July 1940, Page 9

LOYAL FORCE

Incident In Maginot Line Revealed CONTINUED FIGHTING Cease-Fire Order Said To Be Still Unheard ' LONDON. July 3. Some of the men in the Maginot Line continued fighting for five days after the Franco-German armistice became operative. '1 hey were locked in with orders to continue fighting, and the order to cease fire did not reach them till five days later. This was announced in a communique today by the French Com-mander-in-Chief, General Weygand. According to “1 he I imes ’ three forts are still resisting, and the Franco-German Armistice Commission has arranged for the French delegate, General Huntzinger, to attempt to approach the forts and inform the defenders that an armistice had been signed. FURTHER APPEAL TO FREE FRENCHMEN Broadcast By De Gaulle LONDON, July 2. General de Gaulle has broadcast another appeal to all free Frenchmen. The course of honour and hope for Frenchmen is to light on, be declared iu a broadcast from London in French tonight. As a result of the capitulation of the Bordeaux Government, there was a crisis in the consciences of Frenchmen. They were torn between their rulers, who had fallen under the power of Germany, and France, which called out for deliverance. General de Gaulle urged Frenchmen to ask themselves whether Joan of Are, Richelieu, Napoleon. Clemenceau, or Marshal Foch would have ever consented to band over the French armies to their enemy for use against the allies of France. "Would the naval heroes of French history leave surrendered the French fleet intact? Would France’s great colonial administrators have tolerated handing over (the strategic centres of the French Empire without putting up a fight? Let good Frenchmen ask themselves these questions and they would understand where lay their honour, their interests, their common sense, and fhc heart of France. The heart of France was with those who were carrying on the battle and who would one day share the victory.