GAOL FOR BUSY TONGUES
Iron discipline is being imposed on the people of France to curb careless or seditious talk. Conveying military information by correspondence, even inadvertently, is now punishable by r. maximum of 20 years' imprisonment and military courts are dealing severely Avith people convicted of careless or seditious utterances, A factory worker who said, "Our fathers died for capitalism. I won't worlc on May Day: in any case it's my birthday," was sentenced to .six months' imprisonment. A male nurse in a Paris hospital, j who proclaimed, "The skies of Moscow will bring us light," was sentenced to 15 months. A Belgian foreman, in a Paris factory, who asserted, "The French cannot win. They are going to drain a bitter cup," received a sentence of 10 months, Svbile a citizen who told all and sundry, "In Norway the French troops are sleeping in barns and the British in feather beds," got eight months.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 172, 12 June 1940, Page 5
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155GAOL FOR BUSY TONGUES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 172, 12 June 1940, Page 5
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