DENIAL BY VICHY
PLANE INCIDENT NEAR
GIBRALTAR
LONDON, December 29
The Vichy radio has flatly denied Axis reports that the unidentified plane fired upon and brought down into the sea off Gibraltar on Christmas Day was a French machine from Morocco with high personages on board. The German and Italian reports said 'that the plane was fired upon by British and Spanish antiaircraft guns. Tonight's French broadcast delares that the plane was brought down by Spanish anti-aircraft guns and that no French plane left Morocco for France that day.
FREE FRANCE CHAPTER IN
PHILIPPINES
MANILA, December 28,
A group of French residents in the Philippines has announced the formation of a local chapter of the Free France movement.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 156, 30 December 1940, Page 8
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