FRENCH FLEET
FAILURE OF VICHY DRIVE TO RECRUIT PRO-AXIS CREWS. CONTINUED GERMAN PRESSURE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 12.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 24. Reports from France indicate the failure of the Vichy drive to recruit 35,000 sailors to replace the obstinately pro-Democratic crews at present aboard the anchored fleet, says tne “Christian Science Monitor’s” Washington correspondent. Nevertheless the French Cabinet, it is believed, opposes turning over the fleet to tne Germans, although German pressure is still capable of forcing the Cabinet’s hand. The Laval Administration now realises that a surrendered fleet would immediately become a target for the Allies’ sea and air power. Furthermore, the fleet has taken on new significance because of the reduction of the Italian Navy’s strength. Many Frenchmen still believe that a day of reckoning with Italy is coming.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1942, Page 4
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