The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-26
EUROPE.
GERMAN BOMBERS
SLASH AT BRITAIN
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Under her separate armlstice,
reached Monday and paving the
way for cessation of hostilities at
LBS am. yesterday, Italy gets in
addition:
1. Full rights over b i,
French Somaliland port and only
rail outlet to 1talian-conquered ct.
hiopia.
2. Demilitarized zones from 80
to 100 miles wide in France, Tunis,
Algeria and French Somaliland.
3. Italian troops will "stand on
their advanced lines in all theaters
of operations" This apparently
means Italy will get little of
France proper but will r e a l i z e
most, if not all, of her colonial
claims.
Invaders Superior
Petain, in a broadcast to h i S
Borrowing people, told them the
German invaders were "over-
whelmingly superior" in every de-
partment, giving the government
no other alternative but surrdnd-
err.
For instance, in the second bat
tie of the Aisne-Somme he said
60 French divisions, without forti.
fications, faced $50 German divi.
sions with mechanzed units. II
other words, 900, 900 .Frenchmer
were matched against $3.50, 900 bet
ter equipped Germans.
1.-THE enemy crossed the Loire
and then the remainder of France
was defenseless," the aged Petair
told his c%ountrymen, observing
their first day of dictated peace
in mourning.
Germany meanwhile gave France
to understand that any talk of fina!
peace, supplementing the armistice
already in force, would have to
await a final German settlement OF
scores with Britain.
Must Wait
The statement that France mus
wait until Germany has completed
her unfinished business with Eng
land was made by the well-informe6
Nazi commentary Dienst Aus
Deutschland. 1t made remote any
possibility of an early European
peace conference.
Adolf Hitler set up a commission
under General Heinrich Won Stuelp.
nagel to carry out the armistice
terms while he preened his war ma.
lahinn for tho hoft1o of ENpr1o-I
Exultant Germans mingled their
manifestations of %jubilation over the
French conquest with throaty rem.
ditions of the ancient German march
ing song-"We Are Sailing Against
England"
For Britain, steeling herself. for
the German onslaughts to come, it
was a day of publicly expressed re
grets.
Prime Minister Churchill ack.
nowledged that Britain's safety
would be powerfully though not
decisively affected" by what even
tually happens to the French fleet,
surrendered to Germany by France
as an armistice condition.
Charging that the Petain govern.
ment ordered the French navy
handed over to Hitler in violation
of many solemn assurances
Churchill indicated Britain still
might, somehow, take over the sea
power of her defeated ally.
Churchill also limited strongly that
Britain expected to get valuable aid
from units of the French empire
refusing to recognize the surrender.
The British air force repaid a Sc.
ries of German night air raids with
commandments which the air min.
istry said fired a Nazi airplane fac.
tory at Kassel and smashed at other
bases in western Germany and
Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
In their attacks, the Germans
said they rained bombs on British
airports, airplanes and industrial
plants.
For broken France it was the first
day of peace, a hard peace forged
by the sword of her conquerors, and
the day was observed in deep mourn
ing.
Italy, her two weeks of war with
France ended VIGOROUSLY with but
little fighting, turned to her pro-
claimed task of crushing British in
fluence in the Mediterranean.
The axis powers were believed pre-
pairing to strike simultaneously;
Italy against detectives in the Medi-
terranean and East Africa and Ger
many directly against the British
Isles.
Across the Mediterranean, Turkey
and Iraq sought to form a common
front against possible warfare in
neighboring, French-mandated Sy.
ria where French forces were report
ed determined to fight on despite
the mother country's surrender.
On the other side of the world
Japan kept a close military and
naval watch on French Indo-C China.
The Japanese said it vas for the
purpose of choking off China's sup
ply route but there were predictions
Tokyo might soon establish a pro-
tectorate over that French posses
sion as we'll as the Dutch East In
dies.