Vichy, Oct. 27.
'The Petain Cabinet last night agreed on a rapprochement with Germany' and Italy chiefly designed ald France's economic recovery.
The Cabinet apparently approved the plan for collaboration with the Axis. Powers over the objections of the Foreign Minister, M. Paul Bau~ doin, who resigned and was succeeded by M. Pierre Laval, Vieo-Premier and sponsor of the Petain-Hitler agreement, territorial transfors_ were volved in the Petain-Hitler agree ment. reached Inst week, French atiariors reported last night, but it expected that the present zone stem. in France would be changed.
'A German-occupied area will be maintained north and cast of the Somme River, but a 20-kitometrewide zone along the French coast as far south os Bordenux will be substituted for the present complete German occupation of the French const.
"the stretch of French coast as far south as Bordeaux was considered suMiclent to satisfy German military requirements, it was understood.
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