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which recently they were defending.
Heavy movement of airplanes from
France across the Mediterranean to Al
gerian bases in Northern Africa limited
French might be preparing to carry on
struggle. German armies in France
spread over the invaded country. seizing
Cherbourg on the English Channel,
Nancy, Luneville Fortress Toul and
Strasbourg. France named her pleni-
potentiaries to an armistice conference
with Hitler-Gen. Charles Huntziger,
Rear Admiral Athanase lie Luc, Gen.
Jean Joseph Marie Bergeret, Leon Noel
London reported all English troops with
drawn from continent and 1,250OO0 SOL
dlers under arms for "one task" home
defense.
Marshal Petain left France Thursday
with no hope. To-day France Is a wit
ness to sad days, but we
Germons will learn our lesson from
Advance the lost battle" he told his
people. Provisional capital
Bordeaux was visited by German bomb
ers, and $50 citizens of Bordeaux died.
Italy indicated readiness to occupy
Savoy, two French provinces south of
Switzerland. Lyon, third largest French
city, fell to Germans, who announced
capture Of 100000 prisoners. Brest,
where many members of A. E. F. landed,
was German-held. Fifty thousand
French soldiers stepped into Switzer-
land and laid down arms. Again Ger
man airmen visited England, where
thousands of newly LANDED Australian
and New Zealand troops shouted for "a
chance at Jerry" (the Germans). Brit
ain plans removal of all children from
the island. In France 100000 refugees
gathered. How feed and house them?
Friday brought climax in the west
ern continental war. With his feeling
for historical irony, Hitler chose as set
ting for armistice conference the railway
car in the Compiegne Forest, where
Marshal Foch handed the armistice con-
dltlonS to the beaten Germans in 1918.
There at 1882 o'clock in the afternoon
Hitler and five chief military chieftains
and civil officials faced the four -man
French delegation, who flew to Com
piegne in snow white peace plane. Col
Gen. Wilhelm Keitel, chief of German
high command, read the preamble to
terms, outlining in broad strokes the
purposes OF the peace. They we're:
l. Cessation of the war in France.
k1, -
necessary for continual
Preamble ton of the war against
To Terms Great Britain" 3. A new
European peace in which
wrong" done to Germany by force"
would be righted.
With Hitler and Keitel were Field
Marshal Goering, Grand Admiral Raeder,
Joachim Won Ribbentrop, the foreign
minister, and Rudolf Hess, Hitler deputy
for party affairs. Hitler left the French
plenipotentiaries considering the terms.
No Italians visited the railway car.
France was treating first with Germany
only. They were put up to President AL
bert Lebrun and the cabinet at Bor-
deaux. Hitler demanded a yes or no
answer. Jubilant at the turn of historys
tide, the German chief ordered the
Compiegne railway car moved to Berlin.
From the Mediterranean's eastern end,
from Alexandria, Egypt, came notice
that all France was not conquered.
French official sources there expressed
belief the French Mediterranean battle
fleet and the Middle East armies in
Syria would continue to fight beside the
British regardless of what the decision
at Bordeaux might be. French officers
and crews these sources said, were
unanimously agreed on this point:
I'VE cannot quit now. The fight must
go on"
Determination in Alexandria had no
reflection in Bordeaux. French govern
ment late Saturday told the four pleni-
potentiaries waiting in Compiegne to an
nounce acceptance of the 30
Fronce page armistice document. At
Sions $50 pm. French time Gen.
Huntziger signed the truce for
France, and Col. Gen. Keitel for Ger
many. The setting for this sad stroke
by France was that same old railway
car not yet gone to Berlin. At once q
German plane flown by . German pilot