TEXT OF TERMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 26 June 1940, Page 5

TEXT OF TERMS

DEMILITARISED ZONES TO BE ESTABLISHED FRANCE AND COLONIAL POSSESSIONS [U.P.A. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] (Received 26th June, 12.30 p.m.) ROME, 25th Jurfe. The text of the armistice terms are:— “(1) France will cease hostilities in the metropolitan territory, French North African colonies, and territories under French mandate, also in the air and on the sea.

“(2) When the armistice is endorsed and for the duration of the armistice Italian troops will stand in their advanced lines in all theatres of operations. "(3) In French metropolitan territory a zone situated between lines mentioned in (2) and a line drawn fifty kilometres as the crow flies beyond the Italian lines proper shall be demilitarised for the duration of the armistice.”

The text then fixes demilitarisation for the duration of the armistice of the zone of Tunis. In Algeria, French African territories south of Algeria bordering on Libya, a zone of two hundred kilometres wide adjoining the Libyan frontier shall be demilitarised for the duration.

For the duration of Italian and British hostilities and the armistice the French Somaliland coast shall be demilitarised, Italy to have full and constant right to use Jibuti with all equipment. also the French section of the Jibuti-Addis Ababa railway for all kinds of transport. "(4) The demilitarised zones shall be evacuated by the French within ten days of the cessation of hostilities except the personnel necessary for supervision and maintenance of fortifications, barracks and buildings, also troops required to maintain order in the interior as later determinable by the Italian Armistice Commission.”

CRITICISM OF PET AIN “SELLING FRANCE FROM WITHIN” [U.P.A. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] VANCOUVER,. 25th June. Professor F. H. Howard, of the University of British Columbia, economist, said: "I cannot help feeling that Marshal Petain is playing the same part to bring France upder fascism as Hindenburg played in Germany. He is now selling France from within, assisted by M. Laval, who is quite used to that role.” * CLAIMED TO BE UNJUST BRITISH CRITICISM OF FRANCE STATEMENT BY BORDEAUX GOVERNMENT [U.P.A. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] BORDEAUX, 25th June. A statement issued on behalf of the French Government claims that M. Mandel. Minister in the Reynaud Government who made a visit to England, is partly to blame for the "present British failure” to understand the armistice. It is alleged that M. Mandel- tried to make Britain, insist that France should continue the war at all costs. “We regret that certain members of the British Government should criticise us unjustly,” the statement says. “We wish that our English friends will respect our sadness and. examine their own conscience.” The statement adds that while France kept men aged 48 fighting. Britain had not mobilised her men aged 28. A French Press delegation which went to Britain last March found the English unruffled and conducting their traditional form of warfare. General Duval, in an article in “Le Jour,” said: "The Fifth Column beat France. The Germans did not defeat us, but the agents of treason who were sent to France.” TERMS RELEASED IN BERLIN (Received 26th June, 12.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, 25th June. The terms of the French-German

armistice have now been released in Berlin. ITALIAN REPORT CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES WITH FRANCE WAR AGAINST BRITAIN TO CONTINUE (Received 26th June, 9.0 a.m.) ROME. 25th June. The fourteenth communique from General Headquarters of the Italian armed forces states: “At 1.35 a.m., following the signature of the armistice convention, hostilities ceased between Italy and France on all sectors of the war both on the mainland of Italy and overseas. One of our submarines sank an enemy ship of 8000 tons. One of our submarines in the Red Sea failed to return to its base. There was an enemy air raid on Tripoli where an objective of military interest was hit. Bombs fell on houses in the old Jewish quarter, causing about twenty casualties. There was an enemy air raid on Cagliari, Sardinia, during which thirty bombs were dropped. No damage to ; property resulted but a few were wounded Two enemy attempts at Palermo were drivFh off by our pursuit planes. The war continues against Britain and will continue until victory.” FRENCH PEOPLeIn AUSTRALIA WISH TO CONTINUE STRUGGLE SYDNEY, 25th June. On behalf of French people in Australia, more than 100 French citizens met in Sydney to-day and decided to send this cablegram to General de Gaulle: “Without passing judgment on the decisions of the Bordeaux Government, the French people of Australia have agreed to place at your disposal themselves, their energy and their resources in order to continue the struggle to the end.” A similar message is being cabled to General Mittelhauser and other French colony commanders. The French Consul-General, M. Tremoulet. attended the meeting. He reminded his countrymen that "history may prove that criticism of the French Government was ill-deserved.”

NEW CALEDONIA DECISION TO CONTINUE THE FIGHT (Received 26th June, 1 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A message from Noumea says that the General Council of New Caledonia at an extraordinary session unanimously decided to continue to fight against the Axis Powers. Residents of Noumea demonstrated in favour of continuing j the fight on the side of Britain. |