BRITISH WARNING

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 121, 24 May 1941, Page 9

BRITISH WARNING

FUTURE OF FRANCE

APPLAUDED IN LONDON

RUGBY, May 22

Prominence is given in the whole of the evening Press in London tonight to the strong" declaration of policy on | British relations with the Vichy Government which was made in the House of Commons by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Eden. Approval is warmly expressed of his statement that "if the Vichy Government, in pursuance of its declaration of collaboration with the enemy, takes action or permits action detrimental to our conduct of the war or designed to assist the enemy's war effort, we shall naturally hold ourselves free to attack the enemy wherever he may be found, and in so doing we shall no longer feel bound to draw any distinction between occupied and unoccupied territory." RHONE AS AN OUTLET. Added point is given to Mr. Eden's declaration by the information gained from authoritative circles in London that not only is clear evidence available that the lower passages of the Rhone have been used to pass out German E-boats (fast, raiding motor-boats) i into the Mediterranean, but also that ! the British Government has known for a long time that French industry has been working for the enemy on a considerable scale. Tanks and sub-' marines are being repaired, while the^ French motor-car industry is turning out aircraft. At least 20 firms in unoccupied France are turning out aircraft components, motor-boats, tank