BRITISH ACTION
MOVE TO COUNTER NAZI ATTEMPT FULL SUPPORT FOR GENERAL DE GAULLE. RESISTANCE ENCOUNTERED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) RUGBY, September 23. The following statement was issued by the Ministry of Information this evening:—“Recent reports show that the Germans have been making persistent efforts to bring Dakar under their control and movements of French ships from Toulon to Dakar, which clearly could not have been effected without German permission, gave further evidence of an attempt which is in contemplation. “In view of the fact that a considerable element of the population were opposed to the Vichy Government’s policy of subservience to Berlin and had declared in favour of a free France, General De Gaulle decided to proceed with a Free French force to Dakar, to assist those elements which supported his cause. He arrived off Dakar this morning and has summoned his followers to rally to the flag of free France. Resistance seems to have been encoun-i tered, but the situation is not yet fully clear. “General De Gaulle’s Free French force is accompanied by a British force, which will lend him full support.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 September 1940, Page 5
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