German Designs on North Africa
Alternative to Forcing Way Through Spain
USE OF TUNISIA FOR ATTACK ON LIBYA United Press Association—Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Monday, 9.15 p.m. LONDON, June 16. The Daily Telegraph’s special correspondent in Morocco says that remembering the Germans are Just as likely to force their way across North Africa as to go through Spain, it is significant that France’s fairsized North African army with lew planes and little fuel and ammunition would be unable to resist a long attack from a well-equipped, modem army. This fact needs to be faced because the Germans are backing with threats their pressure on Vichy for the use oi the Tunisian bases and a passag through for General Rommel’s Libya! troops. There are sufficient Germai “tourists” to hold Morocco in a wei of espionage and the French feel isolated and helpless.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 142, 17 June 1941, Page 5
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