GENERAL DE GAULLE

Evening Star, Issue 23744, 27 November 1940, Page 8

GENERAL DE GAULLE

RETURN TO LONDON BROADCAST TO FRANCE LONDON, November 25. General do Gaulle’s headquarters issued the following communique after General de Gaulle arrived and conferred with Mr Churchill: ‘ ‘ After organising the forces in Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons, and completing the rallying of Gaon, General de Gaulle wanted to confer with the British Government on various political and military problems in connection jvith the conduct of the war.” General de Gaulle, broadcasting to France, declared: L 1 With the Italian Army in Libya, Egypt, and Abyssinia showing impotence, the British Air Force is destroying Mussolini’s ships and the Italians are running before the Greeks. Frenchmen, in victory for freedom, you now realise the paramount importance of the part that the Empire’s Air Force, which was intact at the armistice, would have played in Africa and Syria if it had not been sold to the enemy by the armistice betrayal. You now realise from experience the nature of the new European, order, but the patriotic passion of the French people is growing. Cultivate it to hasten the day when justice will overtake our enemies and their Vichy friends. BELGIAN CONGO ITALIANS BEING ARRESTED ELIZABETHVILLE, November 26. ' (Received November 27, at noon.) The Governor-General of the Belgian Congo announced that Belgium considers herself at war against Italy. - All suspebted Italians are being arrested in Leopoldville and Elizabethville.