ARMS BY PARACHUTE

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 120, 16 February 1944, Page 6

ARMS BY PARACHUTE

Dropped Over France By British, Vichy Says (Received February 16, 1.30 a.m.) LONDON, February 15. British are dropping arms by parachute for French patriots,- says the Vichy Minister of Propaganda. M. Phillippe Henriot. Fourteen parachutes, with metal boxes containing arms and explosives, were dropped on the night of February 4. A wireless set arrived by parachute on February 9, with instructions in English. Eighteen boxes, containing 85 tommy-guns, 3400 rounds of ammunition, and 25 revolvers were dropped on February 11 at one place, also 2000 tommy-guns, 570 grenades and 34 Mausers were dropped over various departments. Another 59 containers filled with arms and ammunition were dropped last Sunday and, Monday. M. Henriot added that thus not all the arms for France’s civil war dropped by Britain would go to the painful tasks for which they were designed. Some would be used against the, bandits themselves. The Vichy radio announced that 25,000 people had been evacuated from Pas de Calais. .