NO RELAXATION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1940, Page 5

NO RELAXATION

OF GERMAN DEMANDS ON FRANCE .ACCORDING TO DR LEY. I HITLER AS SUCCESSOR TO CHARLEMAGNE. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) ZURICH. July 10. According to dispatches from Berlin the correspondent of the "Basler Nachrichten,” Germany is fully sympathising with the Vichy Government's move toward authoritarianism, but Dr Ley, leader of the Labour Front, proclaiming Hitler as the successor to Charlemagne, says: "France must once and for all recognise Germany’s leadership.” A London message states that the German news agency says that a large group of French parliamentarians at Vichy unanimously decided to ask the French Government to ensure the punishment of all persons who were responsible for the declaration of war and its continuance and also for the inadequacy of France’s arms. The news agency added that proceedings were demanded against MM Reynaud and Daladier and Marshal Gamelin, but it says that France cannot be absolved, and her part in the war will be remembered. The Bill changing the Constitution of the Third Republic gives the Petain Government dictatorial powers in creating a new Parliament and Constitution, but the German and Italian Press and wireless are warning the French that even a totalitarian Government will not make the Axis Powers relax the severity of their armistice terms, or for that matter the peace terms. ARYAN ENROPE ROSENBERG OUTLINES NAZI AIMS. LONDON, July 9. In a statement, Herr Arthur Rosenberg, the German historian and politician, indicated that the new Germany should take under her wing all the areas in Europe to which German people had emigrated in the last thousand years. The bringing of Norway, Denmark and Sweden within the area of German domination was due to that necessity. Some nations should reckon it nothing dishonourable to their national sovereignty in accepting German leadership. Germapy could never abandon the safeguards she required to guard against attempts to attack her, such as were made by Norway and Britain. FRENCH REPORTS ■REFERENCES TO ORAN ACTION. GRENOBLE. July 10. The newspaper “Petit Dauphinois” says a dispatch from Algiers reports that units of the French fleet which escaped from Oran have now rearmed and are ready for eventualities. A French Admiralty communique states: “A British naval force at Dakar on Monday presented a shameful ultimatum to which the French admiral did not think fit to reply. Dakar was then bombed, its anti-aircraft guns replying vigorously.” NAZI TERRORISM NEW CAMPAIGN OPENED AGAINST FRANCE. DEATH FOR DISTRIBUTING . NEWSPAPERS. LONDON, July 10. The German Press has launched a new campaign against France, giving prominence to lurid accouts by German prisoners of war of the treatment they received from the French. All petrol in German-occupied France has been confiscated. The use of private cars is forbidden in unoccupied France. Marseilles reports that the death sentence will be imposed for distributing in the German-occupied zone newspapers printed elsewhere. NEW CONSTITUTION REFERENDUM PROPOSED. (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON. July 10. The Associated Press of Great Britain’s Vichy correspondent says the French National Assembly has decided to hold a referendum throughout the nation on the new constitution.