FRENCH-NAZI DISPUTE
Refusal to Surrender Fleet TROOPS LEAVE MARSEILLES FOR MOROCCO Naval Units Sail for North Africa | United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] LONDON, 29th December. The Lisbon correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that German forces are reported to be on the point of invading unoccupied France and planes are waiting at Vichy to convey Marshal Petain and his Government to Africa should Germany move. Several independent sources' confirm reports of the embarkation of French troops at Marseilles for Morocco and Tunisia. The German radio says that two influential members of the French Government who were going to Morocco from Vichy aboard a plane were shot down at La Linea, Spain, on 25th December. All sources indicate that members of the Vichy Government continue strongly to resist the German attempts to exceed the provisions of the armistice. The Free French news agency says that the Minister of the Navy, Admiral Darlan, has conveyed to Herr Hitler a refusal by the Vichy Government to surrender the French fleet. The Lisbon correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says a number of French naval units have already gone to North Africa from Toulon.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 December 1940, Page 6
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