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Evening Star, Issue 24334, 24 October 1942, Page 5

PARIAN AT DAKAR WARNINGS OF NEW DANGERS LONDON, October 22. Tension throughout French West Africa has heightened as the result of Admiral Darlan’s visit to Dakar and Marshal Petain’s warning of the new dangers which are threatening., Axis broadcasts are continually emphasising the arrival of American troops in West Africa and General do Gaulle’s visit to French equatorial Africa and Belgian Congo, which is being linked with alleged accounts of intensive British air activity at Gibral-, tar. The Berlin radio to-night said that Berlin political circles attach great importance to Admiral Darlan’? visit to Dakar, which is the most seriouslythreatened point in the French colonial empire, and added,that Admiral Darlan was anxious to convince himself of Dio military preparations of French West Africa.” and will discuss-with the com-mander-in-chief, General Barraut, measures for the protection of Dakar and other parts of tbo French West African Empire from attack. AFRIKA CORPS M&VEMENTS (Roe. 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 23. The Vichy radio announced that M. Boisson, after a tour of inspection of tlie French Sudan, returned to Dakar. He paid tribute to tbo, defence measures taken at Dakar. Admiral Darlan visited the battleship Richelieu and other warships in the harbour at Dakar. The Belgian newspaper * Soir ’ reports the movements of part of the Afrika Corps towards the Sudan and Chad.