SULL IN DOUBT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1940, Page 6

SULL IN DOUBT

DECISION OF THE VICHY government SOME SIGNS OF RESISTANCE TO NAZIS. NAVAL RATINGS GOING TO ALGIERS. ißv Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.0 p.m.) LONDON. December 29. A large number of naval ratings from unoccupied France will shortly land at Algiers “on leave.” says, the “Sunday Times,” but the radio at Algiers states that they are going to North Africa for a year's stay. “The Times” diplomatic correspondent states that the Germans are apparently finding Admiral Darlan a tougher nut than Laval, above all on naval questions. The possession of Southern France would not be an economic advantage to the Germans, who would run a grave risk of the French Navy escaping and Marshal Petain establishing a Government in North Africa. The German-controlled Paris radio today complained about the strop" anti-German . feeling in occupied France and said: “Somehow the country must be rid of such people who. through snobbery or stupidity, side with the worst enemies of France.”