MORE DEMANDS
MADE ON VICHY BY NAZIS SURRENDER OF MERCANTILE SHIPPING. CONTROL OVER WEST AFRICAN DEFENCES. (Ey Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, September 16. “The Times” says that dispatches reaching London indicate ..that Laval’s weekend conferences in Paris with the Germans were concerned firstly with a peremptory demand for the surrender of mercantile tonnage in French ports, including 130,000 tons of French ships and 90,000 tons of foreign ships. Vichy admits the demand but denies that agreement was reached. An arbitrary demand was also made for the opening of a German Consulate at Dakar to which it is proposed to attach two members of the German High Command to supervise new coastal defences in French Africa. Vichy admits the demand, but says that negotiations are continuing. Thirdly, a demand was made for the immediate dispatch of 600,000 workers to Germany, in consequence of which Vichy issued a decree on September 13 conscribing able-bodied men between 18 and 50 and women between 21 and 35, and also foreigners living in France.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1942, Page 3
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169MORE DEMANDS Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1942, Page 3
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