FRENCH NAVAL MOVE
eeasons still obscuee London, Sept 16. The Daily Telegraph's diplomatic correspondent says the arrival of six French warships at Dakar from Toulon at present cannot fte clearly interpreted. The British naval authorities allowed them to pass only because they were leaving, not entering the Mediterranean, as a result of which six modern French warships have been: withdrawn from possible seizure by Italy and Germnay. Gne theory is that the ships are intended to replace the 'visit to Afri'ca by General Weygand, which he was unable to carry out owing , to a "mysterious accident" to a 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 with which they can no longer cope. It is hardly credible it is seriously proposed to use these ships to esqort a convoy of supply ships to Franqe. The 'Vichy Government must know that there is not the slightest hope of the British blockade relaxing in its favour.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1940, Page 8
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