CHANNEL TRUCE PLANNED

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 8, 4 October 1941, Page 9

CHANNEL TRUCE PLANNED

Exchange Of Wounded (Received October 3, 9 p.m.) LONDON, October 3. • Though it was originally arranged that an English Channel truce, which is to allow the exchange of the British and German wounded, should last for some hours, the “Daily Mail” reveals that the “cease fire” will last from the morning of October 3 till the night of October 6. During that period no shot will be fired on or above the Channel, and the ports on either side will be ablaze with lights. Meanwhile, normally-lit hospital ships will pass between the shores, bearing 1500 seriously-wounded Germans to a French port, aud they will bring home 1500 incapacitated British troops who have been in German hands since Dunkirk. Neither bombers nor fighters are to trespass this area, and the big guns will remain silent. Two British hospital ships are now waiting at a port on the south coast for the German wounded to arrive by train. The quayside will be brightly lit as the Germans are made comfortable aboard, and this scene will be duplicated at the French port. The safety corridor across the Channel will be lit up by searchlights. The British wounded are expected to arrive on the evening of October 4 or the morning of October 5 by the same ships. Each man will send a telegram to his next-of-kin on arrival. Supplies of food, tobacco, cigarettes, pipes, matches and blankets and also bottles of beer will await the British troops.