Bordeaux, June 24.
HE! Petain Government: yesterday stripped France's leading advocate of continued resistance of all his honours and announced that Germany had agreed riot to occupy Bordeaux before the completion of a Franco-Italian armistice which will end the hostilities in France, The announcement was made following a meeting of the Council of Ministers which was'cálled a few hours after President Albert Lebrun approved the appointment of M. Pierre Laval, former Premier, as a Minister of State and the Vice-Premier, M. Adrien Marquet also was appointed a Minster of State.
The Government of Marshal Henri Petain, announced last night that in response. io a proposal by Gen. Maxime. Weygand, former Allied Generalissimo in France, the Cabinet had stripped Gen. Michel de Gaulle of all his honours. last night prepared to accept the Ballan armistice proposals which will be the signal for hostilities to cease in France within six hours.
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