FRANCE UNDER SWASTIKA

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21702, 10 July 1940, Page 7

FRANCE UNDER SWASTIKA

Constitution To Go Meeting New Order In Europe United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON. July 8. The abolition of Frances 70-ycai-okl constitution will take only 70 minutes, according to a despatch from \ ichy published in a Grenoble newspaper. Under the new constitution Marshal Petain becomes Chief of the Executive assisted by a triumvirate which induce M. Laval and General Wcygand. M. Laval becomes Minister of the Interior. Tn voting itself out of existence, according to the despatch, the French Parliament will make way for the new order in France’s relations with Europe. It is expected that not many members of the Senate will be included in the now Government. All trade unions arc to be abolished. The French Charge d’Afiairs (M. Cambon) called at the Foreign Office and confirmed the report from Vichy that the French Embassy was being recalled to France. Further evidence of Germany’s determination to crush freedom in every country is provided by an announcement over the German controlled wireless in Brussels, warning the Belgians who were continuing their struggle under the German yoke, against acts of sabotage. Telegraph and telephone services had been damaged, it was alleged, and the Germans threatened to punish whole districts where sabotage occurred, if they could not find the culprits. The “Hamburg Fremdenblatt” states that Alsace-Lorraine has become part of Germany under the peace terms. The Rhine will hereafter be Germany’s river not Germany’s frontier. It is reported from Berlin that the Armistice Commission has decided to release all prisoners in France sentenced for activity in German interests. The “Daily Mail” says that 590 British subjects in an evacuee train from the south of France arc completely cut off. All attempts to make contact

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VICE-ADMIRAL T. 8. V. PHILLIPS, u/io has been appointed Vice-Chief i cl the Naval Stag. He is a grandson of Admiral Sir Algernon de | Horsey, a renowned seaman in Victorian years.

I with them have failed. No foreigner is I allowed in unoccupied France. The British subjects will probably be interned. I A later message states that the | Petain Government last nigh', approved of Elans for the revision of the French constitution.