THURSDAY, SEPT. 26, 1940
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE THREE
Dakar May Be Used To Break Blockade
By United Press
Great Britain's abandonment of the attack on Dakar because of the magnitude of local resistance against the Free France movement raises the serious question of whether the Petain government intends to use Dakar as a base for trying to break the British food blockade. This possibility must occupy the attention of the British Admiralty, especially as a consequence of the safe conduct granted the six French warships from Toulon that passed Gibraltar into the Atlantic last week bound for Dakar. results than
The Vichy authorities announced the vessels were to escort food ships to French ports. Five of them now are supposedly at Dakar, one of the cruisers having gone to Cassablanca because of engine trouble. The French have been repairing at Dakar their new first-class battleship Richelieu and there are some other units of the French navy at the Senegal port.
Thus a strong French fleet is assembled on the flank of the Atlantic trade route from South America. It is not known whether the British bombardment of Dakar seriously damaged the French warships. The British state that two French submarines were sunk, but do not mention other French naval losses; so it seems possible that some at least of the French vessels remain serviceable.
The most pressing present problem facing Marshal Petain is to obtain enough food for the inhabitants of unoccupied France for the coming winter. Rationing already is in effect and if the food shortage becomes grave, rioting may well result, throwing occupied France into confusion and threatening the stability of the Petain government.
Great Britain's announced attitude is that Germany must bear responsibility for feeding all conquered territory, whether occupied by German troops or not. The only way Petain can meet this situation as it exists at present is to challenge the British blockade by the use of warships.
If Petain follows his announced intention of providing naval escorts for food ships, Great Britain must decide whether allowing the ships to pass will threaten less serious
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results than battling the French war vessels on the high seas. In the background is the possibility that British attacks by blockading warships on French food convoys might cause the Vichy regime to declare war.
Vichy reports that the British squadron which attacked Dakar has moved southward. It may be headed for Freetown, in the British colony of Siera Leone, a secondary naval station with the best harbor on the West African coast. Freetown is 600 miles from Dakar and would serve as a watching post and a base for operations in the South Atlantic.
Sierra Leone borders a part of French West Africa, whose chief port is Dakar, while considerably farther south is the coastal frontier of French Equatorial Africa, which supports DeGaulle's Free France activities. DeGaulle is primarily responsible for the Dakar misadventure, and his interest must now be centered on not allowing Equatorial Africa to be influenced by the action at Dakar.
The major effect of DeGaulle's leadership and the muddle that occurred in London, however, cannot be known until the intentions of the French fleet are revealed. However, the British may be expected to use caution if the situation threatens to become grave. Some form of compromise with Vichy must not be ruled out of future possibilities, for military strategy suggest th at Anglo-French antagonism be not allowed to reach the stage of actual belligerency.
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