The Archive · 1940

May Fight Several Days

Bordeaux, June 19, Today's communication from Germany did not contain conditions for an armistice, it is pointed out by a sem-official French news agency.

Hostilities, it says, will only end when an agreement has been reached on the conditiong which will be Placed before the French plenipotenflaries, Several days may, therefore, pass before fighting ceases in France, Its to be feared, the news agency Heclares, that still the greater part of French territory will have been octupied by the Germans when "cease Mowatt tie sits est suggests tet south-east suggests that the Germans are trying to make confact with the Italians before the armistice, it adds. peen received No reply, it is stated, has to the message sent to Rome through the Spanish intermediary.—Reuter.

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