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CONTROL OF FRANCE

FURTHER NAZI ACTION PROBABLE HARNESSING OF WAR INDUSTRIES CONTROL OF MEDITERRANEAN COASTLINE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 18. “The Times” correspondent at Lutepy, France, says that early German action to take over the whole of France is not improbable. It would have two main purposes, first, to control the Mediterranean coastline and the Pyrenean frontier more effectively; and, secondly, to harness French industry in southern France to Germany’s pressing- needs. A high German official is reported to have said it is vitally necessary for the Germans to forestall always and everywhere any possible British move. The Germans are anxious to find industries outside the range of British bombers in order to maintain essential war output. The manufacturing centres of southern France might partly meet the need. The consequences of such a move to General de Gaulle’s supporters in France and the French colonies is difficult to estimate. It must increase the number of those feeling that France’s only hope is the formation of another Government in North Africa or elsewhere, but reports from Morocco and France’s Mediterranean possessions show a strong and rajiid increase in German control in recent weeks. The so-called armistice and disarmament commissions which have gone to Tunis, Algeria, Casablanca and Dakar have been followed by civilian and military personnel, who are assuming effective control of key services.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1940, Page 5

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224

CONTROL OF FRANCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1940, Page 5

CONTROL OF FRANCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1940, Page 5

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