TUNISIA BARRED
TO ESCAPING ITALIAN TROOPS ACCORDING TO VICHY REPORT. REQUEST BY MUSSOLINI REJECTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association--Copy right I LONDON. February 20. The first mention from Vichy of ihe recent meetings between General Franco. Signor Mussolini, and Marshal Petain is made in an agency report passed by the Vichy censor. This message says that Marshal Petain refused a request by Signor Mussolini that Italian troops in Libya should be allowed to use 'lkmisia as a way of escape. It is reported that a request was made to General Franco to permit the troops in Libya to go to Spanish Morocco if the British pushed them out of Libya. As that would mean that the Italians would have to tiass through Tunisia. Marshal Petain's permission was sought. He is said to have refused, on the ground that under international law tin* defeated French would be obliged to disarm their conquerors.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 February 1941, Page 5
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149TUNISIA BARRED Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 February 1941, Page 5
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