WAR COUNCIL MEETS
ANGLO-FRENCH UNANIMITY < ROLLING STOCK ORDERED I OR EXPEDITIONARY FORCE I British Official W clc-s l RUGBY. Dec. 19. j An official communique issued from ; 10 D.r. ning Street states:— "A meeting of the Supreme War I Council was held in Paris to-day. The i Council sat throughout the morning. > -The French Prime Minister. M. ' Edouard Daladicr; Air Minister. M. Guy la Chambre; Pensions Minister, j M. Champteier de Ribes: Allied Com- ! mander-in-Chief, Marsha: General M. G. Gamelin; Naval Chief of Staff. Admiral de la F. d’Arlan: accompanied | by M. Leger, represented France. "The British Prime Minister. Mr. : Neville Chamberlain; Foreign Seen- l tary. Lord Halifax; Minister for Co- | ordination of Defence. Lord Chatfield; , accompanied by the new Ambassador i to France, Sir Ronald Campbell; Chief i of the Imperial General Staff. General i Sir Edmund Ironside; and the Per- , manent Under-Secretary for Foreign I Affairs, Sir Alexander Cadogan, rep- j resented Britain. “In welcoming the British represen- | tatives M. Daladier congratulatedl Britain on the gallant, victorious ac- | tion which led ti the destruction of the : German pocket battleship Admiral ‘ Graf Spec. “The Supreme War Council made a ' close stedy of the general situation! and found the British and French > Governments were entirely as one on all questions discussed. The council; accordingly took such decisions as were required to make the best use I of the means of action at the joint 1 disposal ot the two countries in diplo- ■ matic and military spheres. The British Ministry of Supply, which is responsible for providing the British Expeditionary I‘ou.e :r. France with locomotives, rolling stock and materials for permanent way, • placed an order for 240 freight tender engines and for 10,000 20-ton coverec goods waggons. The engines and g to be used overseas on certain section* i of the French Railways operate the British Expeditionary Force. The cost will be about £13.000.000. Ir 1 addition about £1.750.000 worth of permanent way equipment and various mechanical handling plants for doc ks ’ have been ordered, making a fota expenditure of about £l9.7.V’j •
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 301, 21 December 1939, Page 8
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