usatvline Chapter 1771 France surrenders!
Chapter 1771 France surrenders!
Chapter 1771 France surrenders!
"There are many possibilities," said Ken'er Nohara. "Generally speaking, secret radio station intelligence officers will not easily change the radio station's hiding place."
"Tell me in detail." said Arao Chihiro.
"Let's not talk about anything else. To conceal the radio antenna, they need to spend a lot of energy to design a reasonable concealment." Nohara Ken'er said, "In addition, when sending telegrams, it needs to be absolutely safe. It is very difficult to build such a safe house."
"I understand what you mean." Arao Chihiro nodded, "So, this time the radio station changed its transmission location, which immediately attracted your attention."
"Yes, Section Chief." Nohara Ken'er said, "Generally speaking, even if the location is changed, the distance will not be too far. The reason why it attracted our attention this time is that the other party suddenly appeared in the International Settlement from the French Concession, which he was familiar with."
After a pause, he continued, "In this case of changing location, the most likely reason is that he realized that his original safe house was no longer safe, so he had to move."
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"You said that is the biggest possibility, which means there are other possibilities?" asked Arao Chihiro.
Compared to the 'greatest possibility', given his temperament, he would sometimes be more interested in those 'low-probability possibilities'.
"Yes, there is another possibility." Nohara Ken'er said, "That is, due to work needs, the radio station needs to be temporarily brought to the International Settlement for use."
"For example?" Arao Chihiro was immediately interested when he heard this. "Give me an example."
"For example," Nohara Ken'er thought for a moment and said, "In the International Settlement, a certain unit or even a certain person needed to use a radio station, but they didn't have one, so they temporarily used this radio station that had been in the French Concession for a long time."
"I understand." Arao Chihiro nodded. "Based on your professional knowledge and experience, how likely is this possibility?"
He also keenly noticed the excitement in Nohara Ken'er's eyes when he used the word "professional".
"Very low." Nohara Ken'er thought for a moment and said, "Generally speaking, let's assume that our guess is correct. However, even if someone or a certain unit in the International Settlement needs to send a message, they will not ask the other party to risk bringing the radio station to the International Settlement. Instead, they will go to the radio station in the French Concession to send the message."
"So, what if this situation really happened?" Arao Chihiro pondered, "The International Settlement does have urgent information to send, but they are unwilling or unable to send it to the French Concession, so they must ask the other party to bring the radio."
"Then there is only one explanation." Nohara Ken'er thought for a moment and said, "The radio station owners in the International Settlement and the French Concession have never had any horizontal contact with each other before. They only had to contact each other because of an emergency."
"That's right." Arao Chihiro nodded slightly. The situation analyzed by Nohara Ken'er was inexplicably consistent with the intelligence leak regarding the Empire's entry into the French Concession.
The two parties had never met each other before and had never had any horizontal contact. It was possible that the message was sent at great risk in the International Settlement. At the same time, in order to protect the safety of the radio station, the owner of the radio station was forced to take the radio station out of the French Concession. Compared with the danger of carrying the radio station across the two concessions, the other party might take the risk of sending a message.
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Arao Chihiro told Nohara Kenji about his analysis and asked, "Can you help me identify and confirm this speculation from the professional perspective of radio signals?"
"It's not that there's no way to identify it." Nohara Ken'er thought for a moment and said, "As long as we keep an eye on this radio station, if we can confirm that the next time it sends a message, or the next few messages, it still appears in the same place in the French Concession, then we can basically reversely confirm this speculation."
"Very good." Arao Chihiro nodded with satisfaction, "Keep an eye on this radio and report to me if anything happens."
"Hai."
"That newly emerged radio station will be the focus of investigation," ordered Tomohiro Arao.
"Hai."
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After Kenji Nohara left, Tomohiro Arao sat in a chair and thought.
The radio signal monitoring results from the Telecommunications Research Laboratory aroused his great interest in the three radio stations mentioned.
One of them was the 'special' radio station, which had a two-minute interruption in transmission.
There was also a radio signal that had never appeared before.
Also, this radio station, which used to appear frequently in the French Concession, suddenly appeared in the International Settlement this time.
Among them, the newly appeared radio station attracted the most attention from Chihiro Arao, as it was the most consistent with the situation of the top-secret intelligence leak:
The other party was a dormant senior agent who would not be activated unless absolutely necessary. It was precisely in the face of the top-secret intelligence that the Empire was about to enter the French Concession that the other party had to be awakened from his sleep and officially awakened!
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“Incompetent government!”
"It is the government's incompetence that has dragged the powerful France into such a situation step by step!"
Pete held the bottle of wine in his hand and kept cursing the people in power in France.
There was a thick stack of telegrams on his desk, which were his correspondence with his friends in Paris.
Pitt dug out these telegrams, apparently trying to find out why the French army was defeated so quickly.
Cheng Qianfan did not comfort Pete. Any words of comfort at this time would be empty and powerless.
He picked up the telegrams on Pete's desk and read them. Through these telegrams, Cheng Qianfan had the most intuitive impression of the sudden fall of the powerful French capital.
From the outbreak of the war last September until the end of May and the end of last month, the war seemed far away from the French capital.
The citizens of Paris believed the government's propaganda: the Allied forces were powerful, the Maginot Line could not be breached, Paris would be well protected, and the Allied forces would soon win the war against Germany.
The latest war reports are updated in the newspapers every day, and they seem to have nothing to do with Paris.
The citizens of Paris watched the excitement as they read the newspaper reports about news such as "Red Party members of the Red International are being hunted down by the Germans", "Soviet Russia invades Finland", and "The red devil in Moscow is the biggest threat to Europe".
The war seemed far away from Paris.
Just a few months ago, the front page of Paris Soir was filled with reports on the latest Hollywood movies, and the war seemed so far away from Paris.
In a telegram sent to him by a friend in Paris at the beginning of the year, he described that the focus of the front-page reports of Le Figaro at that time was all on the Soviet-Finnish War, as if the war between France and Germany, which had already declared war, did not exist.
It seemed that everything would go as the government said. France was protected by the Maginot Line and the war could not possibly reach Paris. The only thing was that the supply system that was implemented two months ago was a bit annoying. The French citizens were very unhappy and thought that the government was making a fuss out of nothing.
However, as the German offensive resumed in May, the war reports in the newspapers gradually became horrifying. Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium successively either surrendered or stopped resisting.
But columns in Parisian newspapers are still trying to calm people's emotions.
"The Germans are so powerful because the powerful France has not yet launched a real counterattack!"
"The powerful France cannot be compared with small countries like the Netherlands and Belgium!"
Newspapers began to report news such as "All American citizens evacuated and returned home today", which was ridiculed by Parisians, who said that Americans had never experienced war and were cowards, and their evacuation was disrespectful to the powerful France.
However, soon, the increasingly noisy train stations in Paris, the increasing number of refugees on the roadside, and the black smoke from the government burning documents all reminded the residents of this city that this war seemed to be different from what they had expected.
The refugees pouring into Paris spread the horror of the German Air Force's air raids, causing many Parisians to finally begin to have doubts.
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Paris newspapers began to provide real-time updates on the Dunkirk evacuation, although under government orders the French media tried their best to portray Dunkirk as a positive and active military victory.
Describing Dunkirk as a French-British joint force highlights the German encirclement, which caused heavy losses to the Germans. The powerful France began to show their strength to the Germans.
Some Parisians are skeptical about this, while others firmly believe that nothing will go wrong in Paris.
Then, suddenly, on the 13th, the French government declared Paris an undefended city.
The citizens of Paris were completely caught off guard.
Just as the front page of the daily newspaper published the next morning reported that Paris had become an undefended city, the German army officially entered Paris.
The most ironic thing is that when the Daily News published a front-page report about the undefended Paris to the citizens of Paris, the editorial office of the newspaper had already retreated from Paris to Limoges in the southern Aquitaine region.
In other words, only the citizens of Paris didn't know what was happening, and when they woke up, their capital had fallen.
"The citizens of Paris were abandoned." Cheng Qianfan put down the telegram and shook his head. "As the capital of France, Paris was declared undefended. There was not even a battle to defend Paris. It was occupied by the Germans."
It can be said that he was dumbfounded by the way Paris fell.
"Yes, betrayal!" Pete nodded, took a sip of wine, and said with a wry smile, "Facing the Japanese, weak China resisted for so long, and even fought for the defense of Nanjing, but Paris was occupied by the Germans without firing a single shot."
As he said that, Pete tilted his head back, drank the wine in the bottle, and then wiped his mouth, "I want to go back home!"
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"Return to China?" Cheng Qianfan was shocked. "What are you going back for?"
"Defend my country!" Pitt said, "Although Paris has fallen, although the north has fallen, there is still the south."
"I have analyzed these telegrams and newspaper reports. The French army, which is several hundred thousand strong, has actually lost less than 100,000 people so far!" He became more and more excited as he spoke, as if these analyses gave him infinite power. "According to the intelligence I have, the French government is now moving to the south. They will regroup in the south and continue to resist the German invaders!"
"I want to go back, I want to return to my motherland, take up arms, defend my country, drive the German invaders out of France, and wipe them out completely!" The more he spoke, the more excited he became.
He kept shouting that he wanted to return to his country, defend his country, and kick the Germans' asses hard. He kept shouting like that, and then he got drunk and fell asleep on the table.
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For the next two days, Pete kept talking about returning home.
"I think you should consider how to defend the French Concession!" Cheng Qianfan frowned and said, "The newspapers said that the Japanese are preparing to occupy the French Concession!"
"They don't dare!" Pete said firmly, "The Japanese dwarfs are just talking big. They are threatening us. They want to use this threat to force us to give in and accept some of their unreasonable demands!"
"They don't dare to occupy the French Concession." Peter waved his fist and continued, "I have met with Mr. Ferguson, and we both agree that this is a war threat from the Japanese. They are bluffing."
"Bluffing?" Cheng Qianfan looked at Pete. He had experienced the arrogance of the French before, but at this moment, he was still extremely shocked. Why did the French Concession authorities think that the Japanese were just threatening?
"Yes, the Japanese dwarf is bluffing!" said Pete.
"I'm afraid the French expatriates in the concession don't think so." Cheng Qianfan shook his head and said.
After the news that the Japanese were about to occupy the French Concession spread, people in the French Concession were in a panic, and the French expatriates were even more panicked. The boat tickets to leave Shanghai were sold to sky-high prices in just two days.
"The concession authorities have contacted Marshal Pétain's provisional government." Peter's eyes seemed to have a little more light. "The French Republic still has hundreds of thousands of troops in the south. France is still resisting. The Japanese dare not take any substantial action of aggression against the French Concession at this time."
"You mean, the Southern Provisional Government will issue a warning to the Japanese to curb their aggressive attempts on the French Concession?" Cheng Qianfan asked.
A glimmer of hope also emerged in his heart. If this was true, and if it could really curb the Japanese ambition to occupy the French Concession, it would indeed be great news.
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"Probably." Pete said uncertainly.
Seeing Cheng Qianfan frowning, he immediately said, "In short, the Japanese dare not take action."
He said loudly, "Even France, which has temporarily suffered huge losses on the European battlefield, is not something that the Japanese dwarfs dare to offend!"
Peter said to Cheng Qianfan in a decisive tone, "As long as France is still resisting and the war is still going on, the Japanese will not dare to take the risk of completely offending France and take any substantial occupation action against the French Concession!"
Just at this moment, Alfred, a French police officer from the investigation team, rushed in waving a telegram.
Cheng Qianfan saw fear, confusion and sadness in Alfred's eyes.
"What's the matter?" Pete asked with a frown.
"Surrender, surrender." Alfred shouted in horror.
"What?" Pete snatched the telegram from Alfred's hand.
This is a short telegram from Marseilles, France:
Marshal Petain, the French national hero, has made a national radio address announcing that—
France surrenders to Germany!
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