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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, · 1940, 日一廿月五

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FRANCO-ITALIAN

TERMS:

ARMISTICE

THE COMPLETE TEXT

DEMILITARISATION OF FRENCH AFRICA IS ITALY'S CHIEF DEMAND

Malta's Message Of Courage

25

LONDON, June ARMISTICE

THE TEXT OF THE FRANCO-ITALIAN HAS NOW BEEN RELEASED, AND REVEALS THAT THE TERMS ARE COMPARATIVELY · LIGHT. ITALY PRI- FRENCH METRO- MARILY SEEKS TO DEMILITARISE POLITAN TERRITORY AND HER MEDITERRANEAN AND AND AFRICAN POSSESSIONS.

She also demands full and constant use of Djibouti with its equip- ment, and control of the French section of the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railway.

Demilitarised zones are to be evacuated of French troops within ten

FRANCO-GERMAN TERMS IN FULL

LONDON, June 25 (Reuter) -The terms of the Franco-German armistice were published in Germany for the first time to-day by the official German news agency The Articles are the same as those already published abroad with some exceptions.

Article 1 which was given

briefly as: The immediate NO FRENCH

cessation of hostilities" is shown to be much more specific.

It reads: "The French Govern- ment grees to cause the cessation of --hostilities- against-Germany--in France, in French Colonial pos- sessions, protectorates and mandated' territories."

Implicit Obedience To Naxis Article 3 deallag with the German rights as an occupying Power, ex- plicitly binds the French Government to instruct immediately all French authorities and pubile onlees in decupled territory, to obey all the ders of the German Command and orders of to co-operate with them correctly."

Article 0 providing for the storage, under German and

and Italian control,

armis

of the Germans."

150

French Floot Promise

COUNTER PROPOSALS

days.

LONDON, June 25 (Reuter). The terms of the Franco- Italian armistice were published in Rome this evening.

(Reuter).We are fully

determined

with God's

help to maintain the in-

tegrity of this part of the happens and whether the

British Empire whatever

time be short or long. We have every confidence in a final victory."

This is the reply of the Malta to thePrime of Malta to the Prime Minister's message, assur- ing them of his conviction that they would make the defence of their island. glorious in British military history.

The terms of the armistice Frontier Situation

convention are as follows:

Hostilities To Cease Article 1.-France will ccase hostilities in metropolitan territory, in French porter in South, Afrien, in French mandate,

Epic Story Of Defence Of Calais 3 BATTALIONS SAVED THE B.E.F. IN FLANDERS

LONDON, Juné 25 (Reuter).—The epic story of the defence

of Calais by three battalions of the Rifle Brigade was given in an authoritative sistement here to-day.

་

They were ordered to hold the town and did not realise by their gallantry that they were saving the British Expeditionary Force.

The units concerned were a The demand for immediate surren- Battalion of the 60th Rifles, ader was refused,

At 9 am a heavy bombardment Battalion of the Queen Victoria's

and began

accompanied by Rifleg, and a battalion of the almost incessant dive-bombing.

Our defensive position and Royal Tank Regiment.

inner town were reduced

Refused To Surrendor On the morning of May 25, after heavy fighting in the previous days, a flog of truce was passed through the British lines to the Brigadier.

DEFENSIVE STEPS

clip colonies and territories under the us

France will also cease hostilities in the air and on the sea.

Italians To Remain

"

Article 2-When the armistice

TO BE TAKEN

IN VIEW of the attitude adopted by the Japanese comes into force and for the duration Press and certain of its spokesmen in recent days, certain of the armistice, Italian troops will stand on their advanced lines in all precautionary measures of a purely defensive nature "Telegraph" was

theatres_of_operations,

Demilitarisation

have been adopted in Hongkong, the Article 3.—In French metropolitan reliably informed thus morning.

ROME. June 25 (Router). The French plenipotentiaries files beyond the Italian lines proper from the Bordeaux Government shall be demilitarised for the durn- have accepted all the Italian tion of the armistice. terms and have made no counter- proposals.

The German terms are ruthless,

and humilinting. avaricious

"Frenchmen will not be deceived into thinking that the Italian terms will be the lust sacrifice which France will have to make."

was

shambles and set aflame.

Incoisant Fighting

the

to

The Brigddo had little or no sleep ter rest from May 21 to May 26.

They were constantly moving and Gghting,

Food, water and ammunition were all short and it had been impossible to disembark much of their equip- ment.

The

water-mains had been destroy-

ed at an early stage.

Late on the night of May 26, the battle was finished.

Armistice Carriage To Go to Reich

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHY

BERLIN, June - 25,-- Marshal Foch's personal railway car, in which the Armistices were signed in 1918 and 1940, has been ordered by Fachrer Hitler to be brought here as a souvenir of the second Armistice.

Put on a lowbed chassis car and pulled by a trac- tor, the car will be brought the nearest railway station from which it will travel by rail to the Ger«- man capital.

to

5 DIE IN RAIDS ON BRITAIN

London's Reaction To

First Alarm......

LONDON, June 25 (R¢uler), Five people are now believed havo been killed during Monday night's raids on, the south-west of Britain.

Overwhelmed by vastly superior numbers and the weight of their armament this gallant force liefd out to for four days engaging two heavy armoured divisions had been

stined to tat off the

thus permitting it to embark.

Never Had A Chance

At least 14 people were injured.

It is reported that among those

In addition it is believed that a third armoured division had been killed were a mother and her diverted to Calais by the Germans. daughter who were standing at The overwhelming superiority of the front door of their house. the enemy both in numbers and A man was hit by a bomb material never really gave the British

territory,

a zone situated between Oficial sources stress the fact that there is no cause for appre- inos referred to in Article 2 and a hension

chance, it is stated. They held the splinter while looking out of a among the general public. Jine drawn 50 kilometres as the crow

enemy for four days which was a window. The defensive measures are remarkable feat of Armes

Latest Figures more or less normal and in fact, An officer of the Queen Victoria's LONDON, June 25 (Reuter),--The

│Rifles, who was are not as extensive as those escaped and rowed a dinghy alone the latest reports indicate that five taken prisoner, Ministry of Home Security states that adopted when the Japanese Across the Channel. forces visited the border area last year.

Evacuation Of Toops

JAPANESE POLITICS

The "Telegraph" is officially. In-

mobilising the Volunteer forces,

One-Party Scheme formed that there is no question of

Analysed

"Political reconstruction should not

Official Views

BRITISH SUPERIOR

persons were killed and about injured in last night's air raida,

London Reaction

"by..

20

LONDON, June 25 (Reuter)--A description of how most of London took its first air raid alarm since the beginning of the war was broadcast yesterday

Meredith, Brynn Canadian observer to the B.B.C.·*

Several people got up inst night and cursed Hitler, I was one of them,

Wns he began. Everyone

they would curious to know how

He went downstairs into the base-

In Tunis, a militarised zone bc- tween the present Libyan-Tunisian frontler and a line drawn on an at- Ruthless, Avaricious, Humiliating tuched map shall be demilitarised for

LONDON, June 25 (Reuter) the duration of the armistice.

In Algeria and French African ter- The rlleries south of Algeria, which bord- in terms will probably be the er the Libyan zone, 200 kilometres adjoining the Libyan frontier shall be same," said a semi-officiel spokes- demilitarised for the duration of the und military equipman to-day. of French

It is not believed in official circles armistice. ment in the unoccupied ares of

TOKYO, June 25 (Reuter).-that the presence of the Japanese in

What War In Africa France, adds: The German High "If the Itation termab, age com- Command retalas the power to order paratively light it is probable that tween Italy and the British Empire, ment to form the projected the

For the duration of hostilities be Active leadership in the move the frontier is connected with any purpose other than that advanced by

Has Revealed Japanese military authorities any measures accessary to prevent this is because Germary dictated the and for the duration of the armistice.

of the

up mopping unauthorised

this terms with the intention of lulling

LONDON, June 25 (Reuter). react. The sirens warbled in the material."

the French Empire into a sense of the French Somalliand coast shall be single powerful political party is themselves the

of the West entirely demilitarised.

favourably received by the guerilla elements south Article 7, which requires the French false security just as the Munich

River and the closure of the highway-The war in Africa has now distance, and then came closer and Italy shall have full and constant Japanese newspapers. to hand over the plans of fortifcutions prelude meant the final enslavement right to the use of the port of Djibouti

lending inland from Mire Bay. been in progress for ten days and closer until they were all around As the resignation .of Prince It has been suggested in and particulars of mines and other of Czecho-Slovakia,

unoMelal with all its equipment together with

na was expected and this was the first defences, includes a provision that

comforting reaction there was "all such obstacles must be removed "It is clear that the German terms the French section of the Djiboutian Konoye has long been expected, there quarters, however, that pressure may can safely be asserted, it is them. They were not as penetrating

I am not by the French forces at the demand I were not published by the Bordeaux Addis Ababa Italiway for all kinds of no sentiment or surprise. All well be brought to bear on Hongkong stated authoritatively in Lon-

bli upset. papers agree that his efforts will be probably in the form of a blockade don, that the British forward nothing in it. Government because it was fenred transport.

confronted with great difficulties similar to that recently undergone by troops have shown themselves Tumbling around in the darkness, that there would be a violent reaction

before

he said, he got some clothes together they are crowned with success, the British and French Concessions from Frenelimen all over the world.

but they hope

that with his leader-in Tientsin, in order to force the very much superior to the enemy and trailed across the street. On the Article 4-Zones to be demilitari-ship, a really powerful political party, British Government to clos the in initiative, dash-and skill. edge of the sidewalk was a faintly Article 8, calling home the French "That this fear was justified has

evacuated of French with the whole-hearted support. of Burma route to China.

On the Kenya front, there illuminated sign bearing the letter Ficet for demobilisation and dis-been shown by the reaction which Bed shall be armument, specifies that the harbour was displayed as, 300n as the terms troops within ten days after cessation the entire nation, will soon be brought

Japanese Claim Denied were many successful attacks. on the building behind the local

A.R.P, shelter. of hostilities, except for only the per- into being. to which a warship is to return must got abroad.

sonnel strictly necessary for the

An official spokesman this, morn- The border, town of Mayale was

Cheerful Effect. be determined on the basis of its

supervision and maintenance of the be a mere dissolution of the existing in calegorically denied the Japanese several times raided. home port in peacetime.'

claim that munitions or war materials fortification of works, barracks, arms political parties and a re-assembly of were being transported to China frominated an attack on the Mettema ment of the large apartment building,

On the Sudan front, activities deposits and military buildings, and their members with the same old

Hongkong along the Mirs Bay route. troops required to maintain order in ideas, writes the "Asahi Shimbun.”

"In accordance with the agreement Garrison by British troops, assisted Turn to Pago 7, Fourth Column the interior as shall be determined

reached with the Japanese authorities by Abyssinians when 60 casualties, later by the Italian Armistice Com-

Must Go Further

no munitions or last year,

war were inflicted on the enemy. mission.

"Nor would the alm of the now materials of any kind have been ex- Success In Skirmishas party movement ba a mere acquisi-ported from Hongkong to China," the tion of administrative power."

spokesman declared. Another paper, the "Nichi Shim- "The only materials proceeding have Invariably left the advantage| bun," declares: to-day is quite different from that of ever the remaining highway, which with the Brith irregular troops. yesterday. In other words, Japan, cannot in any sense be described as a must go further than that of the major route, has been foodstuffs, oils patrols penetrated deep into enemy lines to the complete surprise of the disposal of the China Affair and and kerosene,

"It is hard to understand, under the enemy, whose morale has been must co-operate in building up a new circumstances, on what grounds the affected,

A private message received world order.

Japanese authorities are complaining." | Many Libyans conscripted into the in Hongkong "this morning "Irt this lies the necessity for

Ficot Movomant

Italian forces, who have fallen into stated that hostilities:' had ramoulding the political structure of

British hands, have expressed tho. this country," the paper asserts.

Considerable Interest that "any aircraft taking off without position of the King of Norway suggestion that Northern Ireland and dificulties ahead but hopes that Tokyo yesterday that part of the

has The "Kokumin Shimbun" envisage ovinced in the

been hope to be allowed to join the British started in French Indo China. announcement inj forces against, the Italluns,. -

There is no confirmation from German permission will be regarded has been revealed by M. Koht, Elce should unite for defence pur-

other sources, by the German Air Force as an enemy the Norwegian Foreign Minister, poses for the duration of the war was Prince Konaye will attack the probe Japanest Fleet has been ordered to Heavy Italian Losses

discussed by Lord Glentoran, Chief lem with a clear understanding of proceed to Halphong and to South Fifty Italian aircraft have been The War Fund passed the By Article 13, dealing with the sur- The German usurpers, he said, tried Unionist Whip of the Northern Ire-the rising power of the nation.

China, waters.

destroyed on the different render Intact of all military and other to gol representatives of the Norland Government, in an interview to-

fronta $1,160,00 mark at 10 am. Enquiries indicate that there are no Italian aircraft have given a poor this morning. establishments as well as communica-wegian people to agree that King day,

visible addillons to the Japanese ,:་་ fions in the occupied area, the French Haakon should put aside his constilu-

He said: "When Mr. de Valera' has

wachips in the vicinity of Hongkong, account of themselves, their perform Government undertakes to ensure tional functions.....

overcome the diMculties with which

hlthough three warships are reported ces confirming the belief that the thit "skilled labour, rolling stock A now Council would then be he is faced, and has thrown in his lot

by Chinese circles to be at anchor in training of Italian personnel has

been relatively inadequate, 67 and other means of transport are formed to take over the functions of with, the other grant peoples of the

Bins Bay..

The morale of all ranks of the available in the amount necessary to the King and bis Government.

Empire. defence

meaning of the cryptic Tokyo the normal needs of ponce.

No matter how tie, behome was liberty. If he asks Lard Craigaven to is sorted bulboritatively were that message is not altogether clear. British forces is declared to be Article 17/ Lys down that supplies carried out the arrangements would drop constitutional questions for the the Duke of Kent arrived recently in Thoro already a considerable the occupied territory can be used be under, the pressure of a foreign period of the war and stands in with Lisbon where he represented His Japanese naval force, in Hainan only in agreement with the German army, and would never axpress the him in defence of our beloved coun-Majesty the King at is national cele Laland waters, and it has been re- LONDON, June 28 (Reuter)The Government which “ungsskesto will dr the Norwegian people, Br.try, I know want the Ulster leader's bratlans of the 800th anniversary of ported that there are heavy Japanese Lord Mayor's Red Cross Fund has "Turk" to Pare”? 7. Fourth-Column Koht declared.

answer will be."

Portuguese Indŏpendence.” Call Turn-to-Page-7, Fourth Column reached. £2,000,000.

This Article, after making solemn declaration" that Germany will not use the French Fleet for her own purposes during the war, says: "The German Government further solemnly and expressly declares. It does not intend to claim the French Fleet on the conclusion of peace." .

To: Return: Nazi, Ships

Article 11, after dealing with the disposal of French merchant shipping, demands "the handing over in good condition on demand of all sized German merchant alilpa In French

ports"

Article 12, which forbids French

Plot Against Norway's King

Dramatic Revelation By M. Koht LONDON, June 25 (Reuter).

aircraft to leave the ground, adds A Nazi plot to undermine the

and will be treated as such"

Appeal For

Eire Unity

Northern Ireland's Overtures LONDON, June 20 (Reuter)

"Japan's

position

L

DUKE OF KENT IN LISBON

LONDON, June

In British Semailland, skirmishes.

On the Libyan front, armoured

excellent.

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