HOSTILITIES AT DAKAR
ANNOUNCEMENT BY VICHY GOVERNMENT ACTION ORDERED AGAINST BRITISH FLEET. BUT WAR NOT TO BE DECLARED. It is announced from Vichy, a 8.8. C. broadcast reports, that British warships opened fire on Dakar yesterday afternoon. France, it was stated, would oppose force with force and had ordered the strongest possible military action against the British Fleet. It is. stated that Britain’s action is hot a casus belli. France would not declare war on England but would defend herself. FIRE OPENED ON TOWN FOLLOWING ON REJECTION OF ULTIMATUM. LYONS RADIO REPORT. (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, September 23. A Lyons radio message states that a British squadron took English and General de Gaulle troops to Dakar and then issued an ultimatum to the town, demanding its surrender. The French refused and the British squadron then fired on Dakar.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 September 1940, Page 6
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140HOSTILITIES AT DAKAR Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 September 1940, Page 6
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