FRENCH WARSHIPS.
Left Mediterranean With Britain's Permission. SHIPS NOW AT DAKAR. VICHY, Sept. 20. The French Foreign Minister, M. Baudouin, said Britain was notified before the six French warships left the Mediterranean for Dakar. The warships passed Gibraltar without a single gun firing on them, and not the slightest attempt was made to .impede their passage.
The mission of the warships was to support the preservation of the French Empire against the British effort to provoko dissidcncc, M. Baudouin added. Franco would employ all the force permissible under the armistice to assure tho integrity of the Colonial Empire against provocations.
France would reach a military, political and economic agreement with Japan, preserving French sovereignty, but. giving Japan privileges.
The llinister added that France owed loyalty to hor former enemies, besides scrupulous execution of the armistice, which was drafted honourable
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 225, 21 September 1940, Page 9
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