MOVING SCENES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 165, 15 July 1942, Page 5

MOVING SCENES

FRENCH IN LONDON

Striking Enthusiasm As De Gaulle Forces March

United Press Association.—Copyright. Rec. 1.30 p.m. LONDON, July 14. ~i,?,h ^us^ ds crowded around Marsnal Foch s statue in London, where General de Gaulle laid a wreath. This was the principal ceremony of hunthe world in which ♦ French have rededi<*t?d themselves to the destruction of the Bastille of Nazidom. In London that determination was symbolised by French Commandos with fixed bayonets around Foch's statue. From dawn London's French colony and sympathisers assembled, and long before General de Gaulle arrived the traffic had to be diverted. General de Gaulle received a tremendous ovation. Tricolours waved from thousands of hands, and cheers and cries of "Vive la France!" resounded. General de Gaulle laid a wreath amid many which were already around the statue. The crowd then broke through a police barrier m an enthusiastic demonstration for General de Gaulle. The streets had to T£ le £ r . ed for the march past of the Fighting French forces. + General de Gaulle this morning took the salute at a march past of the forces of Fighting France at the Wellington Barracks. Men of the army navy, air force, newly-re-turned Commandos, and women and auxiliary services were on parade Representatives of the United Nations armed forces, including the soviet Inion. as well as British ■women s auxiliary services, were present.

General de Gaulle presented 35 decorations, including one Cross of Liberation, the highest award of Fran £e. This went to the officer of a submarine, the crew of which had worked for several davs in gas masks after being damaged in a successful attack on a GlmaS convoy. SABOTAGE RAMPANT More Violent Resistance In Occupied Territory GESTAPO CHIEF KILLED Rec. 1.30 p.m. LONDON, July 14. A new wave of sabotage has broken out in France, says the Swiss newspaper Die Nation. The immense majority of Parisians are revolted by the treatment of the Jews and more than 100 Aryans have been r? nc L g ? oled for we aring the Star of David in sympathy with the jews. The Gestapo hunt in Paris for Professor Pasteur Vallery Radot, a grandson of the famous scientist, Pasteur, who has escaped Gestapo surveillance, has failed. It is understood the professor was smuggled across the frontier. When the Gestapo attempted to arrest a chemist at Houdeng Belgium, he barricaded the house and parried on a two-hour battle, killing 11 Gestapo members before committing suicide.

The Belgian Press Bureau, quoting the Socialist underground newspaper Le Peuple, says a referendum of the reaction of Belgians to the bombing of Belgian factories producing for Germany resulted in an overwhelming majority in favour of bombing. Yugoslav patriots recently killed Major Helm, Gestapo chief at Zagreb He was shot while walking in the main street. The Gestapo began immediate reprisals, its agents dashing through the streets and firing at random. Yugoslav patriots hurled hand grenades through the doors and windows of the most fashionable restaurants. The Gestapo killed and wounded more than 700 persons.