de Gaulle to Escaped The French have already named their plenipotentiaries but their names have not yet been revealed.
The Council of Ministers met at 9 a.m. today under the presidency of M. Albert Lebrun, the President, to examine the Reich's communication which was handed to the French Government by the Spanish Ambassador.—United Press.
Officers and Soldiers Terms Said Severe London, June 19.
Stating that "whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not and shall not be extinguished," General de Gaulle, who was chief of the military cabinet in the War Office in M. Reynaud's Government, has French officers and men on British soil, or who could get there, and also engineers and skilled workmen, to communicate with him.
"Generals who for many years have commanded French armies," declares General de Gaulle, "have formed a government, and alleging that our armies have been defeated have opened negotiations with the enemy to end the fighting.
"We certainly have been and are submerged by Gèrman strength on land and in the air. But has the last word been said? Has all hope disappeared, and is it final?"
"No," replied General de Gaulle. JI speak with àénowledge when I say that France is not lost. She is not alone. She has a vast empire beside her. She can unite with the British Empire, which holds the sea and is continuing the strugglej"—
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Berlin, June 19.
As Premier Benito Mussolini and Chancellor Adolf Hitler conferred at Munich last night on the peace terms to be offered France, the German press warned the French that the terms would be severe.
"The settlement will certainly be made without those unbridled outrages of hysterical hatred at Versail les resulting from the inferiority complexes of the victors," the "Nachtausgabe" declared, "Just as surely, however, it will be made without any sentimentality and without any consideration for silly personal feelings wherever they may come from—inside or outside."
The "Am Mitag" declared, "Let no one—least of all in France—be deceived about the fact tha! is now France itself which must take the consequences, Particularly, let no one in France deceive himself about the fact that it is at this very moment. in particular that the German people must think how 21 years ago, after long years of heroic, honourable struggle, ihe same men who are now leading France sought to rob the German people and its fighters, both living and dead of their honour wherever they could."
French Not Shattered Germans Silent Bordeaux, June 19.
The French Army is not yet routed in confusion either morally or ma-ferially, a United Press correspondent found in a tour of the Saone River region yesterday.
For 24 hours he milled along the roads leading into the Saone region, where the Germans had already arrived. At first he moved against the tide of evacuating traffic and later moved in its midst on the way back to Bordeaux.
His impression is that the French Army is not demoralized. On the other hand, the civilians in the regions visited, who had not yet known serious bombings or shelling showed equanimity, despite heavy hearts, and were making no plans to flee.
It is useless to suggest that the French Army at present could com. bat the invaders successfully, but it would be equally erroneous to suppose that an ignominious or shattered retreat had occurred.—United Press.
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