 Complete the following phrase:  That same day, Germany and Vichy France signed the Second Armistice at Compiègne: although French warships which had until that point operated with the Allies were ordered to return to France and disarm, the British government was unwilling to allow them to fall into Axis hands. Sydney and the British warships in Alexandria turned their guns on the French, but unlike the situation in Mers-el-Kébir, which deteriorated into a 