"all-day parleys continued and we hoped until afternoon our" term:
Now I tum to the] would be accepted without bloodshed. called. I venture to read to the Mediterranean, At Alexandria, where However, io doubt in obedience to] House a message which 1 caused 10 orders dictated by the Germans from.
Wiesbaden, where the Franco-German Armistice Commission was in session, the French Admiral refused to comply, announced his intention of fighting.
"Vice-Admiral Somerville, there fore, was ordered to. complete this mission before darkness fell, and at '558 pam. he opened fire on this, powerful French Fleet, which also was protected by shore batteries. At G pam. he reported he was hea engaged. Action lasted some 10 minutes and was followed by heavy attacks from our naval airera(t ear rier, Ark Royal.
"At 720 pin. Somerville forwarded a further report which stated a battle feruiser of the Strasbourg class was damaged and ashore. A battleship of the Bretagne class had been sunk, another of the same class heavily damaged. Also two French destress rs and a seaplane cartier, the Commandant Test, were sunk or burat,
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