GOOD PLANNING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1942, Page 4

GOOD PLANNING

GROUNiD WELL PREPARED IN NORTH AFRICA. WISE FORETHOUGHT OF UNITED STATES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, November 12. The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Mr R. K. Law) said the North African operation was not only a military and material, but also a political operation of a very technical kind. The whole vast operation had been planned with perfect co-operation across thousands of miles of ocean. The success achieved was very largely due to the patient and persistent policy of the United States Government in North Africa. This had enabled the United States to maintain their representatives there and to influence and prepare the ground for the arrival of the Allied force. The United States had pursued this policy unswervingly in face of progressive backslidings by Laval into the enemy camp, and now the results were beginning to be seen. The British Government had always given very full support to this policy, although it had not always been popular, and it had not been possible at the time to explain why the support was given. GENERALLY : SATISFACTORY SITUATION IN NORTH AFRICA. (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, November 12. An American spokesman at Allied headquarters in London said that, generally speaking, the situation in North Africa was satisfactory. It was particularly well in hand at Casablanca. He had no reports of anything happening at Dakar, but thought the French there were in rather a hopeless position. The Vichy radio announced that units of the Foreign Legion, who suffered heavy losses in the fighting in Morocco, are retiring southward. MASS DISTURBANCES

REPORTED IN LYONS, FOLLOWING ON GERMAN ENTRY. (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, November 12. The Moscow radio says mass disturbances broke out in Lyons. When Germans entered the city crowds gathered shouting: “Down with Laval!” Long live Free France! The police tried to arrest the ringleaders but were overwhelmed. Strikes broke out in several factories.