"COWARDLY ATTACK"
FRENCH ADMIRAL'S VIEW
(Received July 8, 10.20 a-icm.) VICHY, JtuV 1. Admiral Darlan, in an order of the day, condemns the British action at Oran as a cowardly attack, and', adds: "I salute our comrades who met. death for their country. They would doubtless have preferred to die in loyal combat instead of as victims of assassins. The British sailors were made to carry out a duly premedliiated assassination by Mr. Churchill',, Mr. Alexander, and Sir Dudley Pou,bd."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 7, 8 July 1940, Page 7
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80"COWARDLY ATTACK" Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 7, 8 July 1940, Page 7
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