FRENCH WARSHIPS
SIX ARRIVE AT DAKAR NO RELAXATION OF BLOCKADE LONDON, Sept. 16. The Daily Telegraph's diplomatic correspondent says the arrival of six French warships at Dakar from Toulon at present cannot clearly be interpreted. The British naval authorities allowed them to pass only because they were leaving, and not entering, the Mediterranean, as a result of which six modern French warships have been withdrawn from possible seizure by Italy and Germany. One theory is that the ships are intended to replace the visit to Africa by General Weygand which he was unable to carry out owing to a "mysterious accident" to the plane in which he was travelling. Possibly he. and the French naval authorities would not be surprised to find the position in French Africa developing in a manner they can no longer cope with. It is hardly credible that it is seriously proposed to use these ships as an escort for a convoy of supply ships to France. The Vichy Government must know there is not the slightest hope of the British blockade relaxing in its favour. '.'-•.'
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24406, 18 September 1940, Page 7
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