Rome, June 18.
Since midnight Marshal Petain, French Premier, has been in touch with Herr Hitler through French military representatives who stayed behind in Paris, says the special correspondent in Basle of the official Stefani (Italian) agency.
confirms that military opera-are continuing in France.
The German High Command," he asserts, "has not agreed to an armis tice. Either peace on conditions dictated by the victor, or continuation of the war up to Bordeaux. Nothing is known about future peace terms.
"All that is known is that they will be dictated by the German Chancellor and Signor Mussolini in common accord."—Reuter, Germany Said Adamant to France Berlin, June 18.
Germany regards the French surrender as a question of complete capitulation and therefore not a matter for negotiation, well informed quarters said here last night.—United press,
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