Late News VICHY ATTITUDE TO REICH
Reported Statement NO GERMAN USE OF NAVY No Passage For Troops (.Received December 31. 12.a.mJ LON DOX, December 30. The "Daily Telegraph's" diplomatic correspondent says that in a message which Admiral Darlan conveyed to Germany Marshal Petain made it clear that he would not tolerate the passage ol German troops across unoccupied I'rance and could not contemplate Germany’s employment of the French navy. He also stated that categorical assurances on these points had been given to Britain. The correspondent adds that reliable reports suggest that a considerable number of French warships are steadily streaming Io Casablanca, Dakar ami other French African ports, possibly with the object of supporting a move to regaip the loyalty of these populations to Vichy. It is more probable, however, that they are moving in order to escape from tl» reach of the Germans and also to prevent Germany from extending the occupation to French Africa.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 82, 31 December 1940, Page 8
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156Late News VICHY ATTITUDE TO REICH Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 82, 31 December 1940, Page 8
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