ABYSSINIA ROUND-UP

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 120, 23 May 1941, Page 7

ABYSSINIA ROUND-UP

24,000 Italian Prisoners

This Week

LONDON, May 22

The remnants of the Italian forces in Abyssinia are being rounded up, and 5000 further prisoners have been taken.

This week our troops have captured nearly 24,000 Italian troops, including: those taken when the i)ukc of Aosta surrendered at Amba Alagi.

but Germany has not yet made this concession. Before holding the Cabinet meeting in Paris Admiral Darlan had to consult the German Commissioner. Herr Abetz, who ordered him to dismiss M. Sellier. Mayor of Suresnes, in the Seine Department, for which he is also a Senator.

PETAINS RULE ONLY NOMINAL.

"The Times"' says: "There is apparently no German demand, however humiliating, which the Vichy Government can or will refuse.

"The extent of the French complicity in Germany's military operations is attested by abundant evidence that Vichy so far has withheld from the French nation President Roosevelt's recent protest and warning. The men of Vichy have no illusions regarding the detestation their policy would provoke among the masses of the French people, who at heart are still loyal to their oW sympathies and still imbued with the traditional love of freedom, but France is suffering an absolute bankruptcy of leadership.

Marshal Petain's rule is clearly no more than nominal. His policy is

dictated and carried out by men without loyalty, without, conviction, and without any programme except personal profit and advancement."— U.P.A.