FREE FRENCH NAVY
ADMIRAL’S DETERMINATION SUFFICIENT MONEY COLLECTED VALUABLE CARGOES SEIZED (United Press Assn.—Ftec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, July 5 It is revealed that the first French ship arrived at Plymouth on June 19. two days after France’s capitulation. Later the same day several French ‘‘mosquito'’ boats entered the harbour. Next day destroyers, submarines and sloops arrived, and in the following days numerous other craft. Vice-Admiral Muselier, commander of the free French Navy and Air Force, in an interview announced that on July 1 no French capital ship was in German or Italian
hands. A number of French submarines were in British waters. Several warships which were under construction in France were taken from docks and stocks and towed to safety, together with workmen to complete them. “From the money collected from the time-chartering of French merchantmen under my orders, and from valuable cargoes I have seized from certain vessels. I have now enough resources—several millions of pounds sterling—to keep the forces going for several years,” Vice-Admiral Muselier said.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21158, 6 July 1940, Page 7
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