RAILWAY TRAFFIC

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 192, 12 May 1944, Page 5

RAILWAY TRAFFIC

Vichy Announces Further Curtailment ' (Received May 11# 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 10. _ Vichy radio has announced a drastic curtailment of French railway passenger traffic from next Monday, This indicates that Rommel, after the terrific pounding of French railways by Allied -bombers, hag assumed full control of the railway administration, says the “Daily Mail’s” aeronautical correspondent* who expresses the opinion that all efforts are now being concentrated ou keeping the German arms and supply trains running. The Fighting French Minister of .ths Interior, M. Dastier, stated in Algiers today that the resistance forces inside France —which von Runstedt has estimated at 175,000 —would be given a definite status which, it was hoped, the Alims would recognize, so that these forces would not be treated as sharpshooters. He added that Vichy figures revealed that 120,000 persons had been shot since the French armistice, representing a loss greater than that on many of the foreign fronts. , _ _ The Czech delegate to the 1.L.0. conference, M. Jan Masaryk, predicted in a speech that open revolution would break out in Europe Soon, says a message from Philadelphia. He added that Czechoslovaks were ready for orders to march." . TT The Belgian representative, M. Henry Gregoire, said that the great number and regularity of underground publications in Belgium was made possible by the readiness of practically every printing press in the country to print illegal papers.