The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-20
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III ,ue VlCuy MISREPRESENTATION
that France reestablish control
of all her colonies. or even grant
the Reich colonial concessions,
in return for q relaxing of the
armistice terms.
British suggested France even
might be persuaded to return to
the Reich the Togoland and
CAMERON colonies Germany lost
in the world war.
The official French informa-
ton office declared the time has
come to recapture territory lost
TO the De Gaullists-Gabon, the
Cameroons and Chad, parts Of
Equatorial Africa.
The information office said
British planes had dropped over
Syria messages written by "Reb-
Ell French" military leaders In
an effort to win the Levant ter
ritory away from Vichy control.
1t was there that French anti
aircraft gunners fired back yes
terday when the British flew
over for repeat bombings of Sy-
rian bases used by German
planes striking on into the mid
die east conflict in Iraq.
The British, bolstering their
forces in Iraq and Palestine Is
well as along the Egyptian-Lib-
yam frontier, were expected to
draw additional thousands of
troops from Ethiopia. where the
surrender of the Duke of Aosta
and 1000 Italians at Amba Alaji
left only two real centers of Fas-
cist resistance.
The British watched the de-
velopments in Syria closely and
some observers said IL an open
rupture between Vichy and Lon
don resulted from the middle
East tension the British and
Free French" probably would
move at once to take over
French Somaliland.
Berlin also regarded the mid
die east developments rs espe-
cially significant. Nazi common
tators declared that the shutting
off of Britain's oil supplies from
the rich Iraq fields, along with
the toll of tankers taken by
German submarines and bomb
ers, seriously imperiled Britain's
fuel supply.
These sources said Britain's
oil-carrying fleet had lost as
900 tons since May /, with u.s.
600 more tons damaged severely.
1t was intimated that the Ger
man submarines are saving
their torpedoes for tankers In
many cases-sometimes even at
the expense of letting freighters
carrying other supplies pass
unattached.
At Washington, Senator Bark
ley declared after a talk with
President Roosevelt that the
United States lend-lcase war
equipment "seems to be reach
ing Great Britain satisfactorily"
The administration leader in the
Senate said that, barring a
change in that situation, 1t was
unlikely the government would
take any new affirmative
steps" to see that the goods are
delivered.
The fate of the 8,298-ton Egyp-
tan steamer canaan, unreport-
ed and rs days overdue on q
voyage from America to Africa,
grew more mysterious in the alb
sence of any official informa-
ton.
The ship, with 322 persons
aboard, including 1873 Ameri-
cans, was said at Alexandria,
Egypt, to have supnk. Later one
London radio report limited she
may be safe after all" and an
other announced 1T was learned
with regret Of the loss Of the
Egyptian steamer Zamzam in the
South Atlantic" Theories were
advanced that the ship might
have been mined, torpedoed,
sunk by a raider, captured by
q raider, or had foundered in
rough weather.
The air war continued in its
recent lull overnight. Neither
British nor German raiders were
reported to have undertaken any
extensive attacks.