FRENCH PERFIDY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23780, 7 October 1940, Page 8

FRENCH PERFIDY

VICHY GOVERNMENT VITAL FACTS WITHHELD WEYGAND'S TRIP TO DAKAR By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received October 6, 5.15 p.m.) LONDON, Oct.. 5 General de Lariminat, whom General tie Gaulle, leader of the Free French forces, has appointed Governor-General of French Equatorial Africa, in a statement said the real terms of the Franco-Ger-man armistice were hidden from the French people. They provided that Alsace Lorraine should be immediately and unconditionally returned to Germany. He added that he possessed documents revealing that the Vichy Government had authorised the Germans to fly to Dakar, where they commanded operations against General de Gaulle. Several members of the French air force have been court-martialled at Casablanca for refusing to take part in the recent raids on Gibraltar, says the Tangier correspondent of the British United Press. It is announced from Vichy that the former Minister of Education, M. Jean Zay, has been sentenced for desertion from the army to the maximum penalty of military degradation and exile in an unspecified place. M. Zay is alleged to have deserted while lie was serving as a lieutenant in the transport section of the Fourth Army and to have embarked nt Bordeaux for Casablanca without authority. The French radio at Tunis says General Weygand has arrived at Dakar, where he was enthusiastically received. The Berlin radio says it is reported from Vichy that General Weygand has gone to Dakar to organise counter-mea-sures against General de Gaulle's movements.

The new Governor of French Oceania, M, Degery, who has arrived at V aucouver on an oflicial mission, said that French Oceania, including Tahiti, was all pro-British and pro-de Gaulle, and was working in harmony in the Pacific with Allied countries, notably Australia and New Zealand.

EMPIRE'S EFFORT

SPECIAL CAMPAIGN PUBLICITY IN BRITAIN VITAL FACTOR IN VICTORY LONDON, Oct. 4 The Minister of Information, Mr. Alfred Duff Cooper, stated that an Empire publicity campaign throughout Britain, lasting 10 weeks, would be inaugurated on Monday. The first purpose of the campaign is to drive home that Britain does not stand alone, but is a partner in a worldwide and immensely powerful family of nations, with vast reserves of manpower, industrial equipment, raw materials and foodstuffs, all of which are now mobilised to a point at which they must be a vital factor toward victory. •• --

The second purpose is to remind the public that the Empire offers the world new hope for the future. It is not the Nazis who have the goods to deliver, but the British Commonwealth.

Mr. Cooper, emphasising India's part, said: "It is Britain's hope that India will soon take her place in this free and equal partnership." Mr. Duff Cooper pointed out that the British Commonwealth was not only a European Power, but an American Power, an Asiatic Power and a Pacific Power as well. All the various parts of the Empire were throwing their whole weight into the scale. "1 do not think the people of this country appreciate sufficiently the magnitude of the gesture voluntarily made by the Dominions in training men and sending them overseas to fight for the Mother Country," the Minister continued.

TOUR OF SHELTERS LONDON! ORGANISER TUBE STATIONS INSPECTED British Wireless LONDON, Oct. 4 Admiral Sir E. R. G. Evans, organiser of London air raid shelters, carried out another tour of the shelters last night, lasting several hours, accompanied by the Minister of Health, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, Lord Horder, chairman of the committee which is advising the Government 011 shelter questions, and Mr. W. Ma bane, Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Home Security. The tour included the tube stations at Holborn and Liverpool Street and many types of public shelters in the city, and also at Finsbury, Holborn and Bethnal Green. Admiral Evans and his party talked freely with the people, the wardens and the shelter marshals. He was immediately recognised by the shelterers and often cheered for several minutes. The visit ended at Finsbury Hall in the early hours while an anti-aircraft barrage was in full blast. Shrapnel was falling round the party as it drove away. WAR FUND GIFTS NUMEROUS DONATIONS ASSISTANCE FROM OVERSEAS LONDON, Oct. 4 Among the gifts toward the purchase of aircraft is one of £4 8s fid and another of £'54,000. The latter is from the Xawab of Bhopal for the purchase of a flight of Spitfires, and the former a contribution from a South Oxford council school in memory of an old hoy airman who was killed in action. German refugee children in Kensington contributed 9s. The Colonial Secretary, Lord Lloyd, has sent his thanks to two French nationals, a New Hebrides wireless operator and a planter, who sent contributions to the war effort. Sierra Leone is to have a British bomber named after it, the Governor having sent £"20,000 as a result of a general appeal for a bomber fund. The unfederated Malay State of Trengganu sent 50,000 Straits Settlements dollars toward the war fund.

A 10-year-old boy, C. Hadland, and his friends at Hornchurch, Essex, sent the Minister of Aircraft Production 12s collected from admission to their war museum.