DEFENCE OF SYRIA
DECLARATION BY MILITARY COMMANDER DEFENCE OF NATIONAL HONOUR. HIGH COMMISSIONER IN FULL AGREEMENT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 11.55 a.m.) RUGBY. June 23. The French High Commissioner in Syria, broadcasting today, said: "The General Officer Commanding in Syria. General Mittelhauser, has decided to carry on the mission of France in Syria and to defend there with indomitable energy the honour of France and of her flag.” The French High Commissioner added that he was in complete agreement with the General Officer Commanding.
PARLEY WITH ITALY NAMES OF THE DELEGATES REPORTED. RELIABLE NEWS DELAYED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 11.55 a.m.) RUGBY, June 23. No reliable news has yet reached London concerning the progress of the armistice negotiations between the French and Italian delegations. According to German wireless reports, the French delegation arrived at Rome at 3 p.m. today and started negotiations an hour later.
Agency reports state that an official Italian communique gives the following names of delegates: For Italy: Count Ciano, Marshal Badoglio, Admiral Caragnair, Generals Pricolo and Roatta.
For France: Genersl Huntziger, Parisot and Bergeret, Admiral Leluc, and M. Leon Noel.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19400624.2.46.2
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1940, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
188DEFENCE OF SYRIA Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1940, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in