USE OF FRENCH WARSHIPS
CONVOYS TO LIBYA (Recd. 11.50 p.m.) London. Dec. 11. The British United Press’ Berne correspondent says that Admiral Darlan meeting Count Ciand, Italian Foreign Minister, at Turin, is reported to have agreed to allow Italy to use a number of French warships for convoying reinforcements and supplies to Libya. He is also reported to have agreed that Italy may use Bizerta for the duration of the war. for which reason Italy is believed 1o hav® renounced territorial claims against France. The meeting was held under German pressure. The French concessions, it is reported. were decided when Goering met Marshal Petain. It is also believed that, simultaneously with Japan’s entry into the war German submarines concentrated in the Atlantic would he headed for Dakar for the purpose of forestalling a BritishAmerican at tom nt to occunv the port
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 293, 12 December 1941, Page 5
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