The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-27
EMBASSY MOVED
TO M0NTS CASTLE
U. S. ENJOYS Set Up Offices
In Chateau Where Wind
sors Were Wed
BY O PORTER

(By airplane courier to Berlin)
-R-Temporary offices of the
American embassy in France
have been set up here in the
Chateau of Charles E. c:edaux,
where the Duke and Duchess OF
Windsor were married.
The staff consists of three men
first Secretary Hugh S. Fullerton,
Third Secretary Ernest Mayer and
Trade Commissioner Leigh Hunt.
The chateau is not far from
Tours, which the French govern
ment selected as its first tenn
porary capital after departing
from Paris. ,
Assistant military attache Robert
Schow and air attache Jack Sterl-
ing accompanied the French gov
eminent of Bordeaux then it left
Tours for that city 10 days ago.
Exchange Telegraph, British
news agency, reported recently
that United States Ambassador
William c. Bullitt had gone to
Bordeaux with the French, govern
ment, but there has been no direct
news from France concerning his
whereabouts.)
arrived here after a long swing
through the var sectors south
and west of Paris.
Etampes, Orleans, Amboise and
BIois-all scenes of recent fight
ing - were among the cities l
visited.
l found German activity to be
two-fold:
First, they are pouring thousands
of troops into the area between
here and Bordeaux and. second,
they are trying to bring back
normal civilian life in the &C.
cupied area. z
A. along the highways from
Paris to Tours, long lines of Ger
man army conveys moved rapidly
in formation.
Evidences of the hasty retreat OF
French troops we're being removed.
In many villages, German soldiers
were sweeping the streets and pill
ing abandoned French helmets,
rifles and other equipment In
heaps along the sidewalks.
Twenty Trains
Twenty trains of French war ma
terial stood motionless on railroad
tracks leading into the communi-
cation center at Orleans. The
freight included tanks, airplane
motors, planes, artillery caissons
a few guns and large stocks OF
clothing.
Abandoned armored cars, piles
of boxeC ammunition, machineguns
and rifles lined the highways.
A majority of the bridges along
the Loire river are still standing,
but along the Cher river they were
lAostly blown up. Of the three
bridges over the Loire at Orleans.
one was destroyed.
Several blocks Of Orleans had
been bombed and as 1 passed
lIll WlSpS Va SihOAC "SAS
still filtering skyward.
German signs on the doors of
countless shops warned:
"Pillaging will be punished. Be-
ware"
Bakeries were open and municipa!
services were functioning to a
limited extent. Many refugees in
the city were mostly making their
way northward back to their
homes.
Clearing Debris
dition. A German labor corps was
clearing away the ruins of bombed
buildings in the center of the city,
including the old postoffice where
the. Associated Press had temporary
headquarters before the exodus with
the fleeing French government.
The Germans took thousands of
French prisoners in the Orleans
Tours region. I passed one column
marching four abreast which ex-
tended nine miles. A military ex-
pert with me estimated it was
made up of between rs, 900 and
$4,000 prisoners.
We passed five or six prison
camps. French prisoners hanging
over the walls shouted greetings
when they saw the American flag