POSITION AT DAKAR
SUPPORT FOR FREE FRENCH MOVEMENT LOCAL AUTHORITIES TAKE ACTION LONDON, October 3. General de Gaulle’s headquarters states: “ News received from French! West Africa shows that, in spite of tha attitude of the local authorities in Dakar, the Free French movement increases in power every day. To counteract any movement by the Dakar population, who are determined that tha Germans shall not take the port, and are alarmed by the attitude of the local authorities, machine guns have been stationed in buildings, and the Gover-nor-General has dismissed the Dakar Municipality. *
“ Owing to fear of hostile demonstrations, the funeral services for tha victims of last week’s incidents tvera 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 th» French Empire.”
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Evening Star, Issue 23699, 5 October 1940, Page 11
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165POSITION AT DAKAR Evening Star, Issue 23699, 5 October 1940, Page 11
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