Berlin, June 18.
The French capital is like a city of the dead, says a Paris dispatch to the German news agency.
Approximately 2,000,000 of the inhabitants, it declares, fled before the entry of German troops or were eva-enated by the Government. All those who had any vehicle at their disposal left the capital. Better-class residential quarters are thus quite deserted.
Hotels, restaurants and shops are closed, except Hotel Ritz. The underground is not working, and there are no bus services, all means of transport having left. Water supply is assured, and electricity services are still functioning.
No important acts of sabotage, the dispatch claims, have been committed Benito Mussolini, when they meet today, will draw up terms for an armistice with France within 48 hours under which provision will be made for the occupation of France and French possessions by the anti-Comintern Powers, including Japan, authoritative quarters said here today.
The division of France and her territories by the Totalitarian Powers is expected io follow this pattern:
1. Germany will receive Alsace and Lorraine ahd a "generous share" of the French colonies.
2. Italy will receive Nice, Savoy, part of Algeria, Corsica, Djibouti and other parts of the Frencn Empire in Africa.
B. Spain will receive part of French possessions in the Far East. of the Basque country of France.
4. Japan will receive certain French possessions in the Far East. and the Pacific, notably French Indo-China.
5. Belgium will receive certain French ports on the English Channel provided that Belgium con cludes a close military, political alliance with Germany.
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