HOSTILE TO BRITAIN
AUTHORITIES IN FRENCH MOROCCO SITUATION IN CASABLANCA UNCERTAIN. DISCIPLINE DETERIORATING. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, July 26. The Tangier correspondent of “The Tinies” says the situation at Casablanca is uncertain and the port is carefully guarded. The French naval authorities are hostile to the British. Vice-Admiral Ollive, commanding the fleet, is very anti-British. RearAdmiral Sablet, commanding the naval establishments in Morocco, is proBritish. but he was removed just before the armistice, making way for Rear-Admiral d’Harcourt, who is antiBritish. Discipline among the naval ratings is deteriorating. Between 12 and 20 British ships are believed to nave been retained in Moroccan ports, where the crews are interned or under arrest. The junior ranks in the air force are generally favourable to Britain. The higher ranks are uncertain. The order to bomb Gibraltar was most unpopular, and was deliberately carried out inefficiently. The native situation in Morocco is disturbed. The Moroccans object to their transfer from one Fewer to another like cattle. The Nationalist spirit is increasing, and is encouraged from the Spanish zone, but the natives have no arms.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1940, Page 5
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