FREE FRENCH MOVEMENT
SYMPATHY AT DAKAR
INCREASING DAILY
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received October 4, 2.15 p.m.)
RUGBY, October 3. General de Gaulle's headquarters states:
- "News received from French West Africa shows that in spite of the attitude of the local authorities at Dakar the Free French movement daily increases in power. To counteract any movement by the Dakar population who are determined that the Germans shall not take the port and who are alarmed by the attitude of the local authorities, machine-guns have been stationed in buildings.
"The Governor-General has dismissed the Dakar municipality.
"Owing to fear of hostile demonstrations, the funeral services for the victims of last week's incidents were held not in the cathedral but on- board the cruiser Georges Leygues.
"A court-martial has been set up and is sitting permanently. Many arrests have been made.
"These facts clearly indicate that the population is favourable to General de Gaulle, who is regarded more and more as the only possible saviour of the French empire."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 83, 4 October 1940, Page 8
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