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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 14, 1941.

Darlan Dictatorship Hands Vichy France Over To

PETAIN GUNNER BETRAYS

SCORES IN

FIRST

THE MOTIVE COMBAT

THE FOLLOWING official comment was made in London yesterday on Marshal Petain's broadcast, in which the French lead- er announced dictatorial powers for Admiral Darlan.

"Marshal Petain's speech betrays in un- mistakable terms the utmost anxiety on the part of the Vichy Government in regard to the internal conditions of France.

and

"The long and abject record of dishonour and surrender of this #Government has, buyond any doubt, reduced its prestige popularity with the French people bo vanishing point and has brought be a state of affairs in which

the people ate turning with grow- ing hope towards Britain and i ardently desire an

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Allied victory.

"The Government has accord- ingly taken to itself the widest dictatorial powers and has placed those powers in the

in the strongest possible position

those measures of further surren-

German

Fear Of

France

German fear of pro-

hands of paganda in France is Darlan who will thus be placed shown by the manner in to force upon the French people which the Vichy corres- der and further collaboration with pondent of the official the Axis which he has in mind German news agency re-

and which it would otherwise

fers to the decisions an- be impossible for him to foist upon his compatriots.

nounced in the Petain broadcast.

Alliance With Axis

WHEN A HEINKEL 111 WAS DESTROYED ONE NIGHT RE-

CENTLY A DEFIANT AIR GUN-

NER. WHO WAS WITH HIS SQUADRON, HAD HIS FIRST OF A NIGHT

EXPERIENCE

COMBAT.

"We picked up the enemy at about ten o'clock", said the gun- ner. "The Squadron Leader manoeuvred the aircraft into a perfect position, and I gave Jerry a burst. I caught him amidships, probably killing his gunner. Whether it damaged the bomber I don't know, but iL certainly tickled his pants.

"The Heinkel then levelled out jand flew away, but we very soon pyked him up again and I let him have another burst. This must have set him on fire almost Lonce, for he went down like

mettor. turning the clouds bright red.

"Not once did we any return fire".

Referring to the establishment; of a new General Secretariat for information and propaganda, the This is re- correspondent says:

circles) Marshal garded in well-informed

as instrumental for putting an end; to every form of private propagan- da activity.

"The form of government en- visaged for France in Petain's speech is not only de signed for the purpose of sub- jugating and silencing the French people and enforcing unon them

a policy which they detest.

"All further

information ser-

vices in the country will be direct-

at

£1

Axis

***GERMAN

MATSUOKA TO BE ENVOY IN INDO-CHINA

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Mr. Matsuoka has been appointed Japan's new envoy to French-Indo China, according to an un- confirmed Rome Radio report received in London last night. Mr. Matsuoka un- til recently was

the Japanese Poreign Minister. Reuter.

'SIR HUGHE GIVES

A PARTY

RAILWAYS STRAINED

REPORTS REACHING CZE- CHOSLOVAK CIRCLES IN LON. THE

DI

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امر

EOT

TRANSPORT WHICH ARE

DIFFICULTIES

FACING GER-

MANY ARE SERIOUSLY

THE AFFECTING

ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES WHICH SHE HOPED TO DERIVE FROM THE CONQUEST OF THE BALKANS. There are many signs that goods traffic on German railways 117 general has been gravely disorgani ised by the strain put on them by the Eastern campaign and by bombings.

Transport of goods frem Vesha to Dresden--a distance of 250: miles--now takes a month as- against two days before' the war.

At present the Nazis do not dare to san'd goods from tho Douth-eart via Böhemia for foar of sabotage there, and all traffic is diverted, thus slowing it down even more.

For goods sent to Germany Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Huges-from Bohemia and the Balkans, sen, British Ambassador to Tur-railway trucks of the respective a key, entertained Dr. Sarajoglu,

mary despatching countries only Turkish Foreign Minister, and

German rallways be used, the four other Cabinet Ministers last having no trucks to spare.--Bri- experience night, according to a Reuter mes-ish Wireless.

sage from Ankara.

SEEING

VICHY TURNING THE JOB

BACK ON THE

UNITED STATES

"TURNING ITS BACK on the United

ed by the Government. The dis-States, Vichy has still further accentuated its location of organisations which submission to the Axis,” says a leading arti-

"IT IS ALSO DESIGNED WITH have hitherto carried on private THE THOSE FORMS OF GOVERN- leaners and other material, is parti

VIEW OF IMITATING propaganda activity by circulating cle in "France,” the independent Free French MENT WHICH ALREADY OB- of the action taken by the Gov-newspaper published in London.

TAIN IN GERMANY AND ITA- ernment to suppress such propa- LY, THEREBY UNDERLINING | ganda centres."-Reuter, THE DETERMINATION OF THE VICHY GOVERNMENT TO AL- LY ITSELF MORE CLOSELY THAN EVER WITH THE AXIS.

"The fate of such a form of government, lacking any measure of spontaneous popular support in the country upon which it is imposed, is not likely to be happy one."--Rauter.

SHIPPING

2

FORTIFIED COAST.

By A London--Correspondent

"It is for the Governments in London and Washington to draw the obvious conclusions and take the necessary precautions."--

For a fortnight, the writer says, Darlan has been subjected to a double assault. On the one hand from Paris, where Nazi journalists accused him of showing insufficient zeal for “defence" of the Em- pire and of hesitation in demanding German aid for the defence of Africa.

THROUGH

The New Zealand Prime Min- ister visited a fighter squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force yesterday.

He suggested that some of the men, who have been flying, almost daily and who have won great distinction, should return to New Zealand to increase the morale. of young men being trained for the New Zealand Air Force.

A Flight-Licut. replied to this suggestion: "All the chaps here... want to see this job through."

The squadron includes a man who has been shot down eight times, who has won the D.FC. and bas destroyed. about 20 chemy 'planes. British Wire-

less.

AIR GUNNERS SWIM ASHORE

THE STORY OF THE TWO AIR WHO STUCK TO GUNNERS THEIR SUNDERLANO, THOUGH

SHE WAS ON FIRE AND SINK-

NGON FART

18% ALREADY AMONG THE ANNALS OF THE GALLANT DEEDS. PERFORMED IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE

THE AIR “GUNNERS” MADE THEIR ESCAPE HAS NOT HIT- HERTO BEEN TOLD..

Both had on their "Mae Wests".

A yea after Dunkirk, while the Russo-German clash holds world-wide at- tention, Britain is still leader, the revolt of French public -Reuter,

On the other hand, adds the up. as an example to the 'French, BATTLE OF GREECE. BUT HOW fortifying her already opinion has increased. steel-girt coastline with new guns and thicker steel barricades above tidel

BLACK-LIST new guns and thicker

to South American ports were built up bastions against Germany. liable to be placed on the statu tory list.

Defences were placed in hur- riedy under pressure of the crisis,

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Exasperated by the Syrian

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Loves Power

Severe Indictment

"Well" replied the other, thought I was on the Böttöm, “and I was waiting to come up..

affair, then by the abandonment Commenting on the speech-the R.A.F. life-saving jacket.

"our finest colony (Indo-made by Marshal Petain Free One could not swim.. THE MINISTRY OF ECONO- level.

China)," the French in these French Headquarters in London Į. "Jump in and PII tow you to MIC WARFARE GIVE NOTICE

part weeks, despite censorship, consider that it constituted the the shore" the swimmer told his THAT "ANY VESSEL CARRY- More and more concrete blocks

gricong and direct attacks, have most severe indictment which so colleague. Finally, the non-swim- *ING

GOODS DESTINED FOR are being set above the beaches, found means to express their far has been brought against the mer jumped and lay face down EUROPE FOR TRANSHIPMENT and barbed-wire entanglements anger and diodain.

armistice government and was a on the surface of the water, ONTO ENEMY SHIPS IN SOUTH are being added to Britain's mighty

striking tribute to the French His companion raced to the AMERICAN FORTS WILL BE armed wall, which appears to be

Darlan, however, was not in a people's determination to resist. rescue, turned him, 'on his 'back LIABLE TO BE PLACED ON Impossible for any invader to position to hesitate. No attempt It shed, they say, tragic light and dragged his ashore: He asked THE SHIPS STATUTORY LIST" brenk by landing from the sea. at resistante would have been suf- on the ever-widening Breach him why he hadn't lifted his headi

This order is complementary to East week I lived for four days ficient to ingratiate him with which separates Vichy from the above the water. the order of June 16 which pro with the batteries along the coast French 'public opinion which has nation and is a confession of vided that ships taking cargoes of East Anglia, where Britain's always ranked him with the Quis-complete failure. off enemy ships for transhipment forces, when forced out of Europe, linge

The "Marshal-Had "explicitly. recognised that the polley fol- lawed by hlæ Government was a challenge to the fdëlingal of thật | nation and that opposition was: ...otwadify" Increasinge among all

disades of the population, He had voided his determina- tion to overcome this opposition 'It is to power-that he has by every means, in his power! more than. 40 countries have been hitherto sacrificed his country. Þ” Thờ goal was clearly indicated, contributing an average of one Hemetays. N

It was to obliga. Trance to take million guilders (£130,000), péri WHETHER GENERAL WET- part, in spite of herself in the month during the past year to GAND ATTEMPTED OR NOT TO new order, that is to accept for the General War Weapons Fund. The gun-houses contain a dec-| OPPOSU THIS NEW GAME IS ever the regime of misery and Prince Bernhard, giving this laration that "this battery will OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE. 'bervitude to which she had been news in a broadcast on Radio Lord Willingdon's funeral will never retirò.”

Having consented some days subjected since the capitulation. Orange from England, added that bo held privately to-morrow Several gunners told me: "Wengo to be placed under the orders. The eyes of the people had been the money of the Fund had so when the body will be cremated, will fight, to the death, firing our of Darlan, wirom he hates, Gen- nened. They knew that. hético- far provided 32 · 'bombers,: 85 A memorial service will be guns until the ammunition has eral Weygand has hastened to pay forward it is Hitler who speaks nighters and three night "fighters held probably, in Westminster gone, and then we'll go on fighting tribute to the regime and to Hit- through he lost the aged mars for the Allied, air forces. British Abbey hext week.” Router??. with bayonets and fists.".

lefite methods willch he has held shal, British Wireless u

Wireless, and murdm/

Placing of a ship on this list and ammunition for guns, which Resistance for hin- supposing means that it is regarded as an was then so lamentably short, was he even had such a wish-would enemy ship with which no British rationed out..

have meant resignation. And trader may have any dealings, and At the batteries, I saw the Darlan loves nothing so much as that it is liable to seizure ins al magazines Tully stocked, the guns pozer. prize. British Wireless

in better positions, and the shora defences perfected, while · well- trained soldiers tend the batteries and keep up ceaseless watch across "No-Man's-Water."

LORD WILLINGDON'S

FUNERAL

WAR EFFORT OF DUTCH OVERSEAS

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