ONLY ONE FRANCE!

Grey River Argus, 13 December 1940, Page 8

ONLY ONE FRANCE!

general weygand Replies to Anglo-American Propaganda [Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received December 12, 7.55 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 11. ■ The North American Newspaper Alliance’s correspondent Mr. Jay Allen, has interviewed General Weygand, for the first time in French Morocco. “I am displeased with the trend of the Anglo-American propaganda about my journey to Africa,” said General Weygand. “I do not like the, disagreeable word “propaganda,” nut I object to. the creation of ah impression that there is a lack of harmony between Marshal Petain’s politics and my own. lam here serving my country, which is Marshal Retain incarnated. There is only one France! I have been delegated to the command of French Africa, and to maintain the union of French Africa and Metropolitan France. Africa is one with France. Weygand is one with Petain,.”

SYDNEY CONSUL NO LONGER RECOGNISED. LONDON, December 11. The “London Gazette” announces that the recognition of M. Tremoulet, French Consul-General at Sydney, has been withdrawn. REASON FOR NON-RECOGN ITION ACTION OF AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT (Received December 13, 1.20 a.m.) CANBERRA, December 12. Th e Minister ,of External Affairs, Sir Frederick Stewart, to-day announced that the Government had recommended to the King the withdrawal of th e recognition of Monsieur Tremoulet as French ConsulGeneral for Australia. Sir F. Stewart said he believed that this action would meet with the general approval of French residents in the Commonwealth. The withdrawal of M. Tremoulet’s exequatur would not affect the recognition of the French Consulates and other French Consular officers. CHIAPPE’S DEATH. MADRID. December 11. I The French Embassy has handed the British Embassy a protest from the Vichy Government, against the alleged British shooting down by British planes over the Mediterlanean of the plane conveying M. Chiappe to Syria, of which he had been appointed Commissioner by the French Government.

FRENCH RAILWAY BOMBED... LONDON, December 11. An Aden message states: It is officially announced that the R.A.F. is believed to have seriously damaged the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway, near the French Somaliland frontier. Bombs hit the railway station, in addition to the tracks. EXPULSIONS FROM FRANCE. MOSCOW, December 11. The Moscow radio announced that the Vichy Government has expelled a number of undesirable elements, of whom some are Americans.