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AXIS BUILDS WEB

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.

STRATEGIC MANOEUVRES AFRICA TO INDO-CHINA EVENTS AT DAKAR PORT

British Official Wireless. Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, Sept. 25. Events at Dakar, says the Yorkshire Post, must be viewed as part of a wide net of strategic manoeuvre stretching from Africa through the Mediterranean to Indo-China. "In the view of the Axis Powers and Japan the French colonial empire is ripe for dissolution," the paper comments. "Germany and Italy mean to use some of it for establishing a new order in Africa and the Near East. Japan dreams of a new order in Asia which will include the Dutch East Indies and perhaps the Philippines. The privileges she is trying to secure in Indo-China are not required merely to help her war on the Chinese. French Not Enlightened. "These far-reaching prospects are hidden from the people of France, who are told that the Vichy Government is determined to keep the French Empire intact. All the men of Vichy, in fact, are doing is to preserve all they can for the convenience of the aggressor countries whose intrigues they are powerless to restrain. "Herr von Ribbentrop's visit to Rome was concerned with Axis plans for action throughout the vast area from Syria to Dakar. Senor Suner at Berlin is receiving instructions on the role mapped out for Spain in these ambitious undertakings. She is to be given the territory of French Morocco in return for assisting the assault on Gibraltar. "Signor Mussolini wants Tunis and Syria from France, together with Egypt and the Sudan. West Africa is preserved for Herr Hitler. He would be able to look across the Atlantic towards the Americas, a prospect which the New York Times, writing on Dakar. has not overlooked. He would be well placed also to set about 'liberating South Africa with General Hertzog's aid. "Dakar is the keypoint of these widespread schemes. If General de Gaulle's action had turned out well, not only would West Africa have been saved for France, but the rest of the French colonial empire would have been powerfully influenced to abandon the useless protection of Vichy."

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Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1940, Page 7

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AXIS BUILDS WEB Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1940, Page 7

AXIS BUILDS WEB Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1940, Page 7

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