Nazi Infiltration In French Africa

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 99, 28 April 1941, Page 6

Nazi Infiltration In French Africa

(British. Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 24. The infiltration of German agents into French North Africa is not taking place unnoticed as the Nazis intended. Xhe fact that, some hundreds of key men are now concentrating in positions of control at certain ports and aerodromes and that there nave been, recent increases in the numbers of these “tourists” is well known to the authorities here. Morocco, and notably Casablanca, is the chief centre of their activities and only comparatively few have so far found their way into Algeria and Tunis. The purpose of this infiltration is clear to all students of German methods in other countries which have fallen under German, domination, and the French civilian population in Morocco who are indignant, at this influx of Germans are reported to be on the alert to prevent them securing control of the public services. Although very few of these agents are reported in Algeria and Tunis, and while there is no confirmation of the report that Germans are actually passing from Tunis into Libya, the German abuse of French territorial waters in getting supplies to Tripoli under cover of the Tunis coast south of Cape Boni is well established.