Italian Offensive Thrown Back with Serious Losses In French Army Effort for Last Victory Washington, June 25, [PPE Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Charles Edison, last night said he had been informed that portions of the French Fleet had "already joined the British Navy.
"United Press, Bordeaux, June 25.
French troops, struggling for a last victory before surrendering their arms to Germany, were reported to have thrown back an Italian offensive in the Alps with serious losses just before the Petain Cabinet capitulated to Premier Benito Mussolini's armistice terms last night.
Before dawn today France was at peace, after nine months. and 21 days of war, but the price of escape was enormous under the conditions demanded by Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Sig.
Mussolini.
'M., Charles Pomaret, the Minister of the Interior, proclaimed today a day of national mourning and stated that the Government was leaving Bordeaux there seven words were censored) until they are able to return to Paris. German troops will remain outside Bordeaux until the Government eaves, M. Pomaret declared.
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