Some morning newspapers here yesterday estimated the "personnel "of the German battleship Bismarck was 3,000 men when it was sunk. including 800 cadets. compared to its normal complement of 1.500 men:
British vessels rescued approx imately 100 German sailors from the Bismarck before they were forced to leave the vicinity due to the presence of German submarines, it previously had been announced. The remainder of those aboard the vessel which sank H.MS. Hood in a battle off Greenland, perished. nounced that 25 British sailors were The Admiralty, meanwhile. killed and 18 were wounded aboard British warships during the battle with the Bismarck. 'The figures were apart from those lost' when the Hood blew up—United Press. and not, as they claim. merely seareh-Jed and released.
"The British Admiralty ju complete violation of the shipping laws has, changed the right of control, as for az France is concerned. of capturing our vessel even if the ships ate sailing in ballast All this proves that England has! embarked on a war of piracy against tus: first, in order to make good, at our expense her steadily growing tonnage losses, and secondly, in order, starve out the French population, Passing over the reasons for the: Lightening of the British blockade against Vichy France by merely re~ marking thet the British "claim that France. transports arms for Germany and" Italy," without attempting to) state whether the British assertion was. true of not, Admiral Darlan continued:
"These brutal acts have only one ohm. namely to destroy the sea-power of France and separate the mother~ Tand from the colonial empire and Irate, her from the rest of the Attack on Dakar Admiral Darlan referred to. the pei tish seizure" of French posses slong n New Caledonia and to attacks on Dakar, "where a part: of the gold of the Bank of France is deposited," ud (o the "murder of the defenee-Tess, 1.500 French seamen at Merselbir" This too he alleged was for no other reason than "desire to destroy France as a sea-power."
Admiral Darlan went on to speak of what he described as the "British nae on the stranded French cruser Dunkirk on July 7. 1940, which was torpedoed and machine-gunned. Two Hundred French sailors then lost their lives, They were the same men who sharily before had covered the re-tweet of British troops at Dunkirk. Cherbourg. Lo Havre and Brest.
Admiral Darlan then continued: "To grasp the motives of such conduct, It would be necessary to examine Franco-British relations uring the last 20 years. Since the Versailles Conference, Britain has fried to" saddle France with the obligations rising from the Versailles treaty. France had to play policeman while the British were making pro ts, Moreover Britain supplied gold and army to two great centres of colonial" unrest, which shook the French Empire, namely Morocco and Syria. Finally' in 1985 the British succeeded in prevailing on the French government to take part in the sanctions against aly.
Britain's "Cold-Shouldering"
"To sum up one could say that from 1919 to 1939, whenever France appealed for help, Britain cold-shoulder-fed het, but each time Britain wished
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