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Petain Approves Principle Of Nazi-Vichy Agreement.

⠀ LONDON, May 15 (Reuter)-Marshal Petain, in a broad- cast speech, referred to Admifal Darlan's secret talk with Hitler In Germany,

our public spirit, France will over- come her detent and will be able to maintain In the world her position as a European and colonial power"

He said: "I have approved the principles of this meeting" and added: "This now meeting will

enable us to see clearly the road Convoy Showdown

into the future and to continue the talks begun with the Gorman Government, ́·

Postponed

WASHINGTON, May 18 (UP),

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Opinion that is apprehensive bo- The Senate showdown on the use of cause it is misinformed no longer convoys was definitely postponed to- measures our chances and risks and day when Senator Charles Tobey an- Judges our actions to-day.

nounced that he would not introduce The question for you Frenchmen his anti-convoy resolution as now is to follow me without reserva- amendment to the pending foreign tion along the path of honour and ship requisition blil, hullóval interest.

Benator Tobey, Indicated that he BETTING, Pucéessfully completo the will probably awalt, President:

hegotiations now in progress while beveitt fares de Chát Von Maymay, maintaining the strictest discipline of before taking further action

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IN THE CENTRE OF VICHY IS A PLEASANT PARK, and sometimes in the early afternoon the old Marshal walks there, following a great circle from his hotel through the archway of chestnut trees past chil- dren romping beside the broad pathway and back again to his hotel door- way where helmeted sold- iers stand rigidly at atten- tion beneath the tricolour of France.

It is like a 20-minute tour of unoccupied France-this walk that Petain takes on n sunny day. His step is steady and sedate; his bearing digni. fled and reassuring, with more than a touch of the old soldier despite his sober black topcoat and black hat.

He goes past the shop windows, where stocks are dwindling or blinds are drawn because there is no more to sell. He goes past handsome resort hotels, requisitioned by the government and turned into crowded offices, where soldiers with fixed bayonets guard the door. He goes past a line of men and women who stand for hours to get food tickets or to buy a quarter pound of goat cheese.

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goes past a wall where. some passerby at night has serawi. ed in chalk, "Vive De Gaulle." He goes through little knoty of pedestriana who bow or lift their hats.

And at last he comes back to the doorway from which he started and-watching him. receive the salute of his body- guard you may get an idea of what is happening to France; of how this old man in a black hat has become the pivot around which a broken nation marks time in warring Europe.

FOR France-government and people-is marking time, waiting, helplses and hungry to see who will win the war. France is a land of refugees who circle from one consulate to another and then to the government offices, seck ing escape from a belligerent continent. It is a land of de- feated and apathetic people who must stand in line for food, for clothing, for fuel. It is a land in which national leadership shifts and circles to meet each change in the tide of a war that may bring still greater disaster. France, is struggling only to survive until peace comes again.

One day in the crowded lobby of the Ambassadeurs Hotel શ diplomat, whose English was faulty, referred to life in France as a "vecchee circle," and it was such an apt description from any viewpoint that nobody asked- him whether he meant Vichy circle, a vicious circle or merely an unhappy pun.

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You get off a crowded train from Spain after 40 hours without sleep and often with- out a seat, and Vichy looks 'like just what it once was-n quiet, sleepy watering place of 60,000 persons spread out In a valley In the mountains of middle France. But you quickly discover your mis- take. The population is in- creased one-third, even after some 10,000 new arrivals were ordered to leave the temporary capital this winter because they had no satis. factory excuse for living there.

FRANCE,

Helpless

Hungry

Here is the first of two dispatches by the Foreign News Editor of the United Press on conditions in Un- occupied France, which he visited en route back to the United States after It a stay in England, presents G close-up of Vichy,

the

temporary capital, and discloses that France is waiting to see who wins the war. The second article will appear next Tuesday.

By

JOE ALEX MORRIS

lack of gasoline; so you walk half a mile to your hotel.

"YOU were lucky to get a hotel room, friends

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tell you. "The government has taken over most of them."

Your hotel is a rambling resort place with paper-thin walls and big lounges filled with ten and bridge tables. Well-dressed,

smart-looking

men and women-the men are in a vast majority-crowd the lobbies at almost any hour of the afternoon or evening, repeating the latest gossip or relaying bits of news that never get into the closely-con- trolled newspapers. Between rumours they inspect every one, important and import- ant, who comes or goes.

A pot-bellied stove stands in the middle of the lobby, its smoke pipe cutting a black path across the luxurious dé- corations. Suddenly you re- alise that there is a coal short- age and that there won't be any heat in your room. Even the lobby is chilly, and. woman at tea keep fur coats around their shoulders. Electric heaters are priceless trensures in Vichy.

sign on the bathroom door In your room you find a

saying that there will be hot water on Tuesdays and Satur- days. On other days you may be able to persuade the cham- bermaid to bring a pitcher of lukewarm water for shaving. There is no soap, unless you brought your own, and even after you stand in line for soap tickets you get only a handful of brownish subs- tance as a month's ration. If you want a suit cleaned you must wait 10 days, and if you want socks darried you' must furnish your own needle and yarn.

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'OU leave the hotel to meet your friends for dinner and aro lost in a 00 percent black-out, which is partly precuation against air raids but is also due to the fuel shortage. You stumble down the middle of the street to another of the many resort hotels in the centre of Vichy, There was once a smart bör off the lobby, but now it is closed because the hotel, hun become the centre of the gov. andernment. The old Maratua

lives there and he ordered the bar closed

There are no taxicabs, almost no automobiles except a few offiiala e

and

There is a bar in the ad- joining hotel-a 25-foot- square room partitioned off with beaverboard walls in one corner of the huge ballroom and lounge. There are scores of persons in the lounge but there is no music, because France is in mourning. Nor is there dancing anywhere in unoccupied France. You push close enough to the bar to or- der a Martini, and discover. that it is forbidden to serve cocktails or any mixture of liquors in France. You switch to Scotch and soda, and get only a wry smile from the bartender. The Scotch ran out long ago. "Anyway," he adds, "this is a non-alcoholic day."

You finally settle for a dry wine, and your friends arrive in good humour because, after inspecting the menus outside half a dozen restaur- ants, they have found a place where, you can get an ome- lette. Omelette? you ask. How about a steak? It turns out that this a meatless day. Your's lucky to get an ome- lette.

The Rev. Vernon Stones and his bride, the former Miss Dorothy Ann White, nursing sister, of Bradford, Yorkshire, who were married Methodist Church, yesterday-Ming Yuen.

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Axis In Knots Over Double Agreements

Japan's Headache

There is vegetable soup for dinner, an omelette, turnips,, spinach and topinambour, which is like a Jerusalem urti- choke. There are no potatoes this-weck, but for the first-peace In the Pacific, she made the Triple Pact of Berlin.

time in a month there is. cheese. Fruit is plentiful, but the coffee is a mixture of grain and 30 percent coffee. bean. The bread-normal ration is two inch-thick slices n-day-is brown, but good Wine is mostly a local product and getting scarce. There is no butter or sugar.

You are still hungry when dinner is finished, and you can appreciate the irony of a wall sign that quotes a decree published in the official jour- nal: "People of France! You must conserve. It is for- bidden to abandon a piece of bread after having rondered it unfit for consumption by the mouth."-Copyright 1941 by United Press.

PACIFIC RAIDERS ROUTED

"All German raiders in the South Seas have been sunk or chased into hiding, according to reliable reports.”

The Canadian Trado Com- missioner in Australia, Col. L. Moore Cosgrove, said this when he arrived in Los Angeles from Australia.

"The naval authorities have not released any definite information about this," he said.

"But it is commonly known that bombers liave been flying farther and farther on scouting Algfits to seek German ships."

The Australian Navy: Minister, Mr W. M. Hughes, would neither confirm nor deny, Mr Cosgrove's statement,

His only comment was that one. fudged the efficiency of a police force by the absence of crime, and the Navy and Air Force should similarly be judged by the fact that there had been a notable absence of sinkings und attacks by: raiders on>Pacific

LONDON, May 15 (Reuter)The "Manchester Guar- dian," in a leader on May 14, said: "Life is difficult for Japan, who works so hard for peace. In order, as she said, to preserve

It meant that if the United Nazi-Soviet Side Clause States came into the war, both Japan and Axis would attack that Germany and Russia may soon "But now word is reaching Japan her, and in spite of evasionis,

make a large agreement by which meant the same for Russia. Russia will send supplies to Germany "Then Japan, looking hungrily and. Germany will give Russia a southward towards the Dutch East free hand in Asia...à frée, hand, Indies, decided that she must make when Russia has just bound herself sure of peace with Russia. So she not he

to incommodo Japan

made a new pact under which she "The Japanese Army never truste und Russin declared that they Russia and its paper, Kokumin,' is would be neutral if either of them shocked at the report. It says that were aftacked by a third Power.

Japan could not sit *with folded "This looked very much Like hands' if Russia thus re-asserted ber double-crossing Germany, but the freedom of action in the cast. So Germans did not mind because at Japan is wondering whether her the moment their one Iden is that two allles, old and new, are Japan should quarrel as soon as double-crossing her. Each of the possible with Britain and the United three trusts the others as far as she States.

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