FRENCH PLANES
EMPLOYED IN ATTACK ON BRITISH SHIPS REPORT BY THE PETAIN GOVERNMENT. RETALIATION FOR ATTACK AT ORAN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) VICHY, July 7. A communique states: “Two naval air squadrons which were being demobilised were re-armed and attacked at their moorings at Gibraltar British warships which took part in the cowardly attack at Oran. At least one large vessel was hit.” M. Prouvost, in a broadcast reply to Mr Churchill's House of Commons speech, reproached the British government with presenting a brutal ultimatum instead of entering into a contract with the Petain Government. He added: “It cost us too dearly yesterday to be soldiers of Britain for us to consent today to be sailors under the Union Jack.”
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19400708.2.57
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1940, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
124FRENCH PLANES Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 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