FREE FRANCE
VICHY ADMITS SPREAD OF “REBELLION” NOW IM iNDO-CHINA & WEST AFRICA. GREAT .AREA INVOLVED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) VICHY. September 1. The Government confirms that a rebellion agfeinst the Vichy regime has broken out in Indo-China and French West Africa in addition to French Equatorial Africa. French West Africa has an area of I,TA 159 square miles, and in 1936 had a ,copula.ion of 14.702.583. of whom 34,703 were Europeans. I; conrUts oi
Mauretania. Fi n"h Guinea 'no. Ivory Coast, Dahomey, F.end. Sudan, and the Niger. Between Dahomey and the Gold Coast Colony lie? the French part of the former German colony' of Togoland.
GOVERNOR OF GABOON
ADHESION TO DE GAULLE ANNOUNCED. ALLIES GAIN ATLANTIC PORTS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) RUGBY. Septembr 1. It is learnt from headquarters that General de Larminat, Governor of French Equatorial Africa, has just addressed to General de Gaulle a cablegram announcing that the Governor of Gaboon, M. Masson, has placed himself under the flag of Free France, with all the civil and military authorities of the colony. The whole of the French forces in French Equatorial Africa have thus now joined General de Gaulle. It is also confirmed that a telegram from M. Amadoo Diop, chief of the Senegalese in French West Africa, has been received by General de Gaulle. The telegram declared : tic adhesion to the Free French forces of all the Senegalese,” who do not want to be slaves, but wish to remain French and who will henceforth devote themselves to the cause of which General de Gaulle is the head. The adhesion of Gaboon, with its 400,000 inhabitants, makes available to the Allies two more ports on the African Atlantic coast, Libreville and Point Noir.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1940, Page 6
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