SILENT SUPPORT GENL. DE GAULLE'S FORCES
SYDNEY, May 1
Commandant Gustav Jardin, commander of the Free French forces in the Pacific, has arrived at Sydney after a four months' tour of the French Cameroons. He is on his way to Noumea to take command and consolidate all thp Free French fighting men in the Pacific Islands.
Interviewed, he said he believed that between 80 and 90 per cent, of the French people in occupied and unoccupied France were silently . behind General de Gaulle and sympathetic to the British cause.
Commandant Jardin has been singled out for "special mention" in the blanket death sentence imposed by Vichy on the Free French forces.— U.P.A.
(Rec. 11 a.m.)
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 102, 2 May 1941, Page 7
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