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January 11, 1941.

Many Frenchmen who have escaped from France and the French Colonies say that

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a great change of feeling has come about in regard to the war, and there is now a

GROWING RALLY OF SYMPATHY

FOR BRITAIN

for them

to

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GODS OF CHINA

MAI LUK

know of resolution and for having] (The Laughing Buddha) There is in France and good in the French Colonies a and all their news is strongly seemed to have been outwitted laced with German propaganda. in a matter of vital importance

This figure, contrary to popu- for the Free French cause. rapidly growing feeling of

lar belief, represents an actual They are, for instance, quite sympathy for the British

Naturally the Vichy Govern-than. He was a monk named This is the unanim- unaware of the British Government used the incident further Kai Chec, and he was born in the ment's offer to the Reynaud to buttress their attacks on same district as Chiang Kai-shek, He be- ous opinion of the many Government at Bordeaux. They Great Britain, but without great in the tenth century.

longed to a meditation sect and Frenchmen who have. man- have heard no word of the success.

seldom spoke.

cause.

man

Supporters of Petain

It would be wrong to suppose

In the course of his travels from village to village he begged from strangers and shopkeepers by holding out a large bag; with which he is sometimes shown.

General de aged to escape the country. agreement with

Gaulle by which the restitution The very fact that so of France in the plenitude of many do make their way out her power is guaranteed in case of France or away from the of victory. No news of the African possessions is in it- successes of the R.A.F, in their that Marshal Petain has no sup Having obtained whatever people

While the self some indication of the resistance to the German at- port in the country.

future. development of the war could spare, he would then pro- tacks or in carrying the counter- determination to fight on offensive into Germany

Is so obscure, Vichy can claim ceed to distribute the gifts ever the active or passive backing of amongst those he considored which does exist. For every gets through the Vichy censor. certain elements in France. more needy.

who is successful Nor is any hint given of the Those are partly moneyed He was a very happy man, in- dozens are turned back or possibility of a defeat of Hitler. people who have something to deed, for it is stated that noth- lose and hope to save something ing angered him. He was ex- are unable to evade the More vigorous action on the by clinging to the chariot-wheels tremely fond of children, and vigilant watch kept by the part of the British and of of the Marshal. Others, often they sometimes stole his shoes, Germans or their agents on General de Gaulle would be wel- honest men and patriots, are his staff or his clothes.

comed. A month of concen- disgusted with the past and be twitted by people for his wad- the frontiers.

lieve that the regeneration of dling walk, but did not lose his trated propaganda of the right France is possible through some temper. All those who have made kind would have an appreciable such programme as the Vichy

In the course of time, it was their way out have suffered effect in a country already in Government has proclaimed..

thought that he might be the re- There are still others, like hardships which only men large part disillusioned with the

incarnation of Martrica, Charles Maurras, who in a re-future Buddha of China. certain of their cause would

cent article in L'Action Frau: have voluntarily under-

caiso stated that one should Hupport Vichy because only by gone.

so doing could France maintain her liberty of action now and in

Broadcasts Jammed

From A Correspondent lately

in France

the future.

He was

the He

himself also came to believe this. and when he died he sang a chant which said: "I am the real Mar- trlea, for Martriea comes down to earth in every age but no one

recognises him.“

was canonised, and in the Ming Some time after his death, ho Dynasty the honorary title was conferred on him of "Ming Jow Din Yin Ng Dai See...

Walter C. Clark.

TELEGRAPH

QUIZ

In contrast with the indif- ference, and even hostility, of three many Frenchmen of

Finally there are those who are still mesmerised by the mag months ago there is now said to

nitude of German military be a majority who, if permitted to express a free opinion, would Vichy Government. It would, power and too timorous or too leave little doubt where their morcover, prepare the ground little concerned to risk support sympathies lay. This trans- for any daring strategic move ing the Free French cause.

These tendencies among cer formation of spirit has grown which might be contemplated.

lain sections of the population naturally out of the native

The Case of Dakar are strengthened by the wide- Banity-of-the-French-people-

"spread bellef that within-a-few themselves, as well as from the

The ease of Dakar and its weeks the Germans will take trend of events since France effects on popular feeling are over the whole of France. Such capítulated.

interesting; the general reaction a move is not improbable and was different from that after would have two main purposes, the battle of Oran. In the state to control the Mediterranean of bewilderment which existed coastline and the Pyrenean at the time, the naval netion at frontier more effectively and to Mersel Kebir WAS easily harness French industry in the Perhaps it is unfortunate twisted so as to have the worst south to the pressing needs of that more has not been done to possible effect on the public at- the Reich.,

titude towards England. water this fertile soil by propa-

A high German official is re- The action at Dakar was cer- ported to have said that it was ganda or action. British broad- casts suffer from jamming, and tainly deeply regretted, not per- vitally necessary for the Ger- ordinary French radio sets are haps for the attack itself, as for mans, if they are to gain the the failure to press it home to victory, to forestall always and

1. Place these Army units im too weak to pick up the pro- success. But the burden of the everywhere any possible British order of size, smallest first:- grammes. The change in opinion blame is put not so much on the move. The Germans are anxi-

battalion, platoon, division, has flowed naturally from the British

to find industries outside as upon General de ous heartening fact of British resis. Gaulle for having shown a lack the range of British bombers so brigade.

which

as to maintain their essential tance,

resistance

war output. The manufactur- neither German bonsting nor the inflation of German military and lampooning of] prowess British military "ineptitude" byl the inspired Press has been able to shout or write down.

To-day even in that controlled Press, in such papers as the French national cap-must not Depeche of Toulouse, the great be worn have been issued to the

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Orders that the beret-the

2. An accentor is (a) am

Jing centres of Lyons and else- organ stop (b) à law court offi-

where in Southern Francecial (c) a bird. might conceivably meet such a need in part.

Effect of Move

3.

What have those dates in common:-1714, 1727, 1760. 1820, 1910, 1936 ?

4. What, "ology" treats, of

The consequences of such a German move to the supporters fishes? of General de Gaulle in France

5. The Druses oro, (a) East

newspaper of the Midi, there is people of Nazi-occupled Alsace and the Colonies are difficult to Indian islands (b) a Syrian tribe

British line.

Stifling The News

Somo Frenchmen think it peculiar that the British have!

estimate. The effect must be

6. To what collection of ani«- mals do those forms refor:— (a) gaggle (b) farrow (c) fry (b) kintle.

has within recent weeks shown ❘tury?

noticeable indifference toby Robert Wagner, Hitler's

to increase the numbers of those (c) ancient Coltic pricats. wards Vichy, while journals gauleiter there.

who will feel that the only hope like Figaro and Candide, though)

He said: "The beret is a sign for France is the formation of Janother Government in North they bow to the Vichy will, care of Latin infection." fully avoid taking any anti- The owner of a factory in the Africa or elsewhere.

town of Barr called his men to-1 But all reports from Morocco gether, read Wagner's order to and the Mediterranean posses 7. What was the date of the them, and naked them to wear sions state that German control first day of the twentieth can- other hats.

Next day all the factory hands The so-called armistice and dis-

la strong and rapid increase. 8. What are (a) dragon's arrived wearing top hats some armament commissions which head (b) dragon's left oyo (c) not taken greater advantage of old and battered, some smart and have both the open and latent feeling shiny, somo borrowed from un- Casablanca, and Dakar have

gone to Tunis, Algeria, dragon's mouth? expressed most strongly in the dertakers, and some made of been followed by civilian as well 9. What opera was composed Midi and the Pyrenean discardboard.

as military personnel who are to celebrate the building of the tricts. Throughout unoccupied

The owner (says the Berlin assuming effective control of Suoz Canal ?!

of the Basle nows- the key services. France the immense majority of correspondent the people are completely ig-Paper "Nachrichten" called the

men together again, and said It is for this reason that the norant of what is happening that although he appreciated the failure at Dakar is regretted as outside France. Thoy only joke, times were difficult, and the a misfortune by 80 know what it is considered Germans would not understand. Frenchmen,

many

-10. What are (a) a Philatelist|| (b) a Philipple (c) a Philologist (d) Philomel (e) Philomathy

Answers on Pago 14.

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