GERMAN AFTER-WAR DESIGNS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 123, 28 May 1941, Page 5

GERMAN AFTER-WAR DESIGNS

ANNEXATION OF NORTHERN PORTION OF FRANCE

ARMISTICE DOCUMENT PUBLISHED (Recd. 7.0 p.m.) London, May 27. The Times says that Free French headquarters has obtained possession of a document signed by General Doyen, chief of the French Armistice Commission at Wiesbaden, in which the general reports that Germany, if she wins the war, intends to annex the whole, or part, of nine departments in North and North-Eastern France.

According to General Doyen’s report. the terms of which were broadcast to France by a Free French spokesman, the Nord Pas de Calais, part of the Somme, part of the Aisne, also the Ardennes, Meuse, Meurthe et Moselle, part of Haute Saone, and part of Doubs would not only be annexed by Germany similarly to Alsace and Lorraine is already, but would also be colonised by Germans. This project presumably explains why every inducement is at present being offered French workers in these departments to leave their homes and seek work in Germany. The territory involved stretches from the Channel to the Swiss frontier, and includes ail the industrial portion of Lille, also Rheims, Verdun and Besancon.

General Doyen’s report is dated February 5, 1941, and is addressed to Genera! Huntziger.—U.P.A.