FRENCH REGIME

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 29241, 11 October 1940, Page 5

FRENCH REGIME

INTERNAL HIERARCHY STATEMENT BY PETAIN “THE FUTURE IS GLOOMY” (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) VICHY, Oct. 9 In a radio broadcast, Marshal Petain said a Government plan would be published tomorrow setting forth the essential outline of the new French regime. It would be “national in its foreign policy, hierarchical in its internal policy and co-ordinated and controlled in its economy.” “I have been silent for over a month,” said Marshal Petain, “but the Government has not lost its

independence of speech or its care for the national interests.

“Three million refugees and 2,000,000 demobilised men have been returned to their homes. Most of the destroyed bridges are again being used and transport is almost entirely restored. “An immense legislative task, which no previous Government had dared to tackle, has been accomplished. We had to overthrow established customs and disregard particular interests. The future is gloomy.” Marshal Petain said he was paying particular attention to the agreement concerning prisoners of war. He added that he could not forget the peasants in occupied France or the people of Paris, whom he hoped soon to see again. The French Government has ordered the arrest of M. Paul Weiller, chief of the Gnome Rhone Aero Engine factory, Marseilles, and M. Bloch, manufacturer of bombers for the French Air Force. Both men are Jews. The Lyons radio announced that a decree deprives Jews in Algeria of French citizenship. Free French Africa General Delaminat, leader of French Equatorial Africa, after his arrival at Leopoldville, Belgian Congo, announced that General de Gaulle intended to address all Free Frenchmen from somewhere in Free French Africa. The streets of Leopoldville were beflagged to welcome General Delaminat, who conferred with the Governor-General, Dr. Pierre Ryckmans. They exchanged friendly speeches expressing the determination of both colonies to support the Allied cause.

HELP FOR UNEMPLOYED INCREASE IN ALLOWANCES EXTRA £900,000 YEARLY REGULATIONS IN BRITAIN (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Oct. 9 While the British unemployment figure has reached its lowest total since the present insurance scheme was introduced, the rates of unemployment . assistance and allowances are being increased for the second time since the war started by draft regulations which have just been placed before Parliament. The estimated cost is £900,000 a year. A man and his wife without children will now receive 30s a week instead of the pre-war rate of 265, while a man and his wife and three young children will receive 41s 3d instead of 355. The new rates affect only unemployment allowances granted by the Assistance Board and not benefits received under the Unemployment Insurance Act, which were increased in August. Increases were announced today, to take effect in November, in the allowances for families of men serving in the three fighting services. They are designed to meet the rise in the cost of living and will amount to Is for wives and ordinary dependants, I Is 6d for each of the first two children, 2s for a third child and Is for each other child.

CANADA’S ARSENALS 1,000,000 SHELLS A MONTH BIG RISE IN PRODUCTION (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyilgrnt) LONDON, Oct. 9 Canadian arsenals are producing on present orders at least 1,000,000 shells a month, it is officially stated, r.nd orders for shells or ammunition amount to more than £20,000,000. The small arms capacity of one arsenal has been multiplied six-fold to more than 300.000.000 rounds a year. Another small arms plant will have more than double this output. While in the last war much material had to be imported by Canada, this time the bulk of the war material comes from Canadian plane.