DARLAN’S MISSION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 October 1942, Page 4

DARLAN’S MISSION

APPEAL TO WEST AFRICAN FRENCH. GENERALS AND OFFICIAL RETIRED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright)' (Received This Day, 12.15.p.m.) LONDON, October 22. Admiral Darlan, broadcasting from Dakar, read a message from Marshal Petain to the people of French West Africa: —“You demonstrated your devotion to the unity of the Empire when, in September, 1940, under a causeless attack, you offered a victorious resistance of which unhappy France has still a right to be proud. New dangers today hang over you, while in other parts of the Empire heroic defenders are yielding only to superior numbers, knowing that their sacrifice will not be in vain when the day of justice dawns. These threats have no shadow of excuse. You will give every aggression the same answer as you dJd in September, 1940. Dakar, for which so many Frenchmen have given their lives in its defence and development, is closer to our hearts each day.”

Darlan is making a tour of inspection of French West Africa.

The official Vichy “Gazette” announces that Brigadier-General Jacquot and General Vallat, who is an inspector of the Medical Corps and also first-class Colonial Governor Parisot, have been retired “in an application of the law against secret societies.” M. Parisot was formerly Governor of Senegal. Last year he became Secre-tary-General to the Governor-General of French East and West Africa.