MORE AXIS MEETINGS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1940, Page 5

MORE AXIS MEETINGS

PLANNED TO TAKE PLACE IN FRANCE According to Rome Report PROMISED BROADCAST BY LAVAL CZECH PRESIDENT PREDICTS TRANSFORMATION BY SPRING It is reported from Rome, a 8.8. C. broadcast states, that Signer Mussolini is leaving for France for an important meeting, possibly with Hitler. Either Marshal Petain and General Franco or both might be in attendance, it was added, but there is no confirmation of this report. There has been no further news from France since the statement that M. Laval will broadcast an explanation today. The Editor of Count Ciano’s newspaper, Signor Ansaldo, commenting on Hitler’s recent meetings, said this course followed the agreement at the Brenner Pass to launch a diplomatic offensive. In order to beat Britain, she must be prevented from getting any satellite on the Continent. General de Gaulle is organising an Imperial Defence Council to exercise over all Free Frenchmen the powers of a war government. The President of the Czechoslovak Republic, Dr Benes, in a broadcast, said there would be a definite transformation in all military operations by next spring. This transformation was being brought about by the absolute failure of Germany to invade Britain, Germany’s almost incredible losses in all air actions, the impenetrable blockade of Germany and ever-grow-ing British air supremacy. The inevitable disintegration of Germany and all Central Europe would do the rest. The end of Nazism would be terrible for all those who were guilty. He warned his country people not to yield to pressure.