BORDEAUX METHODS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1940, Page 5

BORDEAUX METHODS

ESCAPE OF AIRMEN PREVENTED PETROL RESERVES SEALED. PLANS TO HAND OVER SHIPS TO ENEMY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, June 26. A French ex-service man, broadcasting from the said that French airmen who intended coming to Britain after the Bordeaux Government's surrender were prevented from bringing their planes, as the Government sealed the petrol reserves. Naval officers were replaced by others who were ready to hand over the ships to the enemy.

FORMER PREMIERS

ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND. LONDON, June 25. The French statesmen, MM. Edouard Herriot, Paul Boncour and Leon Blum, all former Premiers, arrived today in England. (M. Boncour was said to have been a member of the Petain Government last week. M. Blum, it was rumoured. was in a German concentration camp.) Later today M. Pierre Cot arrived, and MM. Mandel and Campinchi are expected soon. All were prominent Ministers in recent Cabinets. The French missions in England are being disbanded, but the staffs are resolved to fight under a French Government that is formed in London or North Africa.

VOLUNTEER LEGION

FORMATION BY DE GAULLE IN BRITAIN. FULL BRITISH SUPPORT. (Received This Day. 9.55 a.m.) LONDON, June 2G. General De Gaulle is forming a French volunteer legion in Britain, which the British Government is fully supporting. General De Gaulle is also establishing a French centre for armaments and scientific research, under which French brains will be placed at the disposal of the Allied cause.

NEW HEADQUARTERS

BORDEAUX GOVERNMENT MOVING. (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) MADRID, June 2G. The official Spanish Agency reports that the Petain government will transfer its headquarters to Clermont-Fer-rand before the weekend.

M. REYNAUD

PROBABLY STILL IN FRANCE. (Received This Day. 9.50 a.m.) LONDON. June 26. A French Embassy official stated that M. Reynaud was still in Bordeaux a few days ago and there was no reason to believe that he had left France.

NAZI AIR COMMANDER

SHOT DOWN AND KILLED BY BRITISH FIGHTER. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. ZURICH. June 2G. It is reported that General Fritz Loeb, commanding the German air forces on the French and Dutch coasts, was killed when the plane in which he was making a reconnaissance flight was shot down by a British fighter.