FRENCH FLEET
UNDER BRITISH ORDERS STATEMENT BY CONSULGENERAL IN AUSTRALIA. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) SYDNEY. This Day. The French Consul-General M Jean Tremoulet. commenting on the armistice terms last night, urged Australians to withhold judgment of Marshal Petain and General Weygand. He declared that the people of the Australian Commonwealth were not competent, at this distance, 'to criticise their actions. He was quite in the dark about the future of the French Consulate here or the fate of French nationals. If any Frenchman in Australia desired to enlist with the Allies he had no power to prevent it. Neither was he anxious to remain in the Commonwealth at the Commonwealth’s expense. The French fleet, he understood, was under British orders and the French admirals probably would do what they were told to do.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1940, Page 5
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137FRENCH FLEET Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1940, Page 5
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