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French Delegates In Touch With Bordeaux REAL DEMANDS ON FRANCE NOT YET KNOWN R.A.F. RAIDS
LONDON, TO-DAY. OF GERMANY'S REAL DEMANDS ON FRANCE, BEHIND THE VAGUE GEN- ERALISATIONS OF THE THREE CONDITIONS FOR AN ARMISTICE OUTLINED IN THE PREAMBLE READ BY GENERAL KEITEL IN THE PRESENCE OF HITLER, THERE IS AS YET NO INKLING.
Act One, Scene One of the Compiegne Drama was played out in conditions typical of Hitler's stage management (as reported in Page Seven) after which the real negotiations began.
Nothing authentic is known of their progress; but there is reason to believe
that the negotiations are still in progress. The German news agency states that the French
wherever possible, with the help plenipotentiaries were in direct telephonic com-of all the forces of the French Em- munication with the French Government.
pire."
ITALIANS IN ABYSSINIA
Cairo, To-day.
An R.A.F. communique. states two bombing raids were carried out on Thursday' on Diredawa, in Abyssinia. Direct hits were registered on the railway station and work- shops nearby.
The aerodrome was also attacked and fires started. Simultaneously the colony... tele- Enemy fighters attempted to inter- The discussions between General Keitel and the graphed Mr. Winston Churchill thank-cept the bombing aircraft but both ing the Premier for the generous words raids were carried through success- French plenipotentiaries were still proceeding at 7 o'clock last evening, according to a later an-speech in the Commons, assuring the safely.
nouncement by the same official news agency. Shortly after Hitler left, the French withdrew to their
tents to discuss the terms.
NAZI GUN AT CALAIS WRECKED
London, To-day.
They had at their disposal direct telephonic communication with their Government.
They returned to resume contact with General Keitel shortly after o'clock-Reuter.
"Some Time Must Elapse"
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London, To-day. According to the French Radio, the French Government is to remain ot Bordeaux.
The announcer added: "We cannot An Air Ministry communi- give any precise indications concern- que states that successful airing the actual state of the negotiations
now proceeding for an armistice. attacks have been made on an "We must wait patiently for the re- enemy gun position near Ca-sult, lais.
The gun position was a big new Nazi gun emplacement.
British bombers, protected by Hur- ricanes, swept down in waves of dive bombing in the face of tremendous fire from guns of all sorts.
The emplacement was wrecked. One British machine was hit and crashed into the sea; all the others returned safely.
The emplacement was discovered by a young Canadian whose ma- chine was badly damaged when he flew low to photograph the emplaos- ment. He just managed to get the crippled machine back to the Eng.
Yesterday, he had his revenge by anding...” the attacking aircraft. He bombs and then flew the rest and brought back vivid. the davi
“Some time must obviously slapse before new details can be known,
"The circumstances are such that the public must be put on its guard against false reports. The Minister of the Interior stressed this to-day in an appeal to the population in which he warned them against the evil conse- quences which might result from ten- dencious news and unfounded rum-
ours.
"The French people will be kept in formed by its government."-Reuter.
London Frenchmen Say “Fight On"
London, To-day: The French colony in London has elegraphed President Lebrun urgent-
that the fight Tthe side of our
in which he referred to France in his fully, and all, our aircraft returned
British Government of their deep af- fection for Britain and offering whole- Allied
hearted co-operation in the
cause. Reuter.
French War Communique
London, To-day.
An Italian three-engined bomber was brought down in our lines in the Western Desert and the crew of six made prisoners.
El Gubbi and El Adem (both in
Libya) were again visited by R.A.F bombers on Thursday night. Direct hits were registered on both targets A French war communique, ac- but the extent of the damage is not cording to the French radio, states that yet known. All our aircraft returned
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safely. Reuter.
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