FRENCH COLONIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1940, Page 6

FRENCH COLONIES

RESISTANCE TO INVASION LIKELY IN INDO-CHINA AND MOROCCO. AMBASSADOR IN LONDON RESIGNS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 27. M. Corbin (French Ambassador) handed his resignation to the Bordeaux Government on June 23. It is understood that he will not be associated with the French National Committee. General de Gaulle has been definitely informed that General Catroux will resist an invasion of IndoChina. General Nogues (Commander-in-Chief of the French forces in Morocco) is also believed to be taking all steps for organising resistance. A Bordeaux decree appoints ViceAdmiral Decoux Governor-General of Indo-China, instead of General Catroux, who has been recalled to France. M. Caylo has been appointed Gover-nor-General of Madagascar. M. de Boissbn, at present Governor-General of French West Africa and French Equatorial Africa, has been appointed High Commissioner for French Africa with authority over West Africa, the Camerons and Togoland.

M. Baudouin has issued a statement that no French colony will be subjected to foreign occupation. Germany has not broached colonial problems, though Italy did. "The consideration guiding the negotiators was to prevent Germany getting the Air Force. We succeeded,” the statement said. M. Baudouin estimated that a million French soldiers were taken prisoner.