TROUBLESOME MARTINIQUE

Evening Star, Issue 24909, 6 July 1943, Page 3

TROUBLESOME MARTINIQUE

GOVERNOR PREPARED TO LEAVE VICHY NEW- YORK, July .4. Martinique radio announced that th« pro-Vichy High Commissioner ot Alar ; tmique, Admiral Robert, lias preseiuec to V ico-Auniiral John Hoover,, ol m< United States navy, a three-point ptai. to permit Martinique- "to pass tc another French autliomy." Tho term* proposed are, first, a guarantee ot tne maintenance ot French sovereignty; secondly, non-intervention by foreign armed forces; thirdly, tho resumptive of supply shipments. The radio added that Vice-Admira. Hoover was returning to Puerto Kicc to report to Washington. According to the Washington correspondent of the United,Press-, Admirai 'Robert's action is interpreted as surrender of tho islands of Martinique anc Guadaloupe to the French Natioiuu Committee of ' Liberation, which has appointed M. Henri Hoppenot as unrepresentative in the negotiations witn Admiral Robert. M. Hoppenot is now *in Washington. General Giraud stopped. at Martinique en route to Washington to heir to arrange the island's peaceable surrender- to the 'French ' Committee oj National Liberation, reports the ■ Ne\i York 'Herald-Tribune.' A settlement of the troublesome Martinique situation is expected, and the aircraft carrier (Beam, ithe cruiser Emile Bertiu and 150,000 tons-of merchant shippius will join tho United Nations' fleets.