Vichy, Aug. 13, The Government today flatly denied that the Germans took Dakar,-naval base in French West Africa, Tribute Paid To Air Crash. Victims Meanwhile, the Government issued a decree abolishing secret societies, thus totally banishing Free Masconry from western Europe.
The decree also completed the French Parliamentary revolution for, in Parliament activities, French Free Masonry was the most powerful group.
Since M. Emile Loubet, president of France between 1899-1908, every president has been a Free Mason—United Press.
London, Aug. 13.
Winston Churchill in House of Commons today paid a personal tribute to all concerned in Australian accident. Viscount Caldecote, Secretary of State for the Dominions, also paid. tribute in the House of Lords to memory of men killed in the crash.—
Reuter.
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