CIVILIAN CONTROL

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 223, 17 June 1944, Page 8

CIVILIAN CONTROL

Instructions Left By General de Gaulle

(British Official Wireless.) (Received June 16, 7 p.m.) RUGBY, June 15. The French authorities in London tonight issued a statement on General de Gaulle’s visit to Normandy yesterday. He was accompanied by Mr. Vieuot, Generals Bethouart and Koenig, Admiral d’Argenlieu, MM. Palewski and de Courcel, Colonels Silotte and de Boishimbert, and Captain Teyssot. Immediatelj' after lauding on French soil General de Gaulle visited General Montgomery, with whom he had a long interview, and who explained the latest military developments. Afterward, General de Gaulle, who is described in the statement as President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic, went to Bayeux, where he was received by M. Coulet,_ Commissioner of the Republic for Normandy, and Colonel de Chevigne, commander of the liberated parts of the third military region. With them were the sub-prefect, mayor, and municipal councillors of Bayeux. He crossed the town on foot amid the indescribably moved and enthusiastic population, who had been overwhelmed by this unexpected arrival. lie also received Monsignor Picot, Archbishop of Bayeux and Lisieux, and local leaders of resistance. Afterward General de Gaulle visited Isiguy, which had suffered particularly, and the whole population gave him a most moving demonstration of courage aud devotion. Grandcamp and several other places greeted him in the same atmosphere of immense fervour. The statement concludes: “The head of the Provisional Government left everywhere first instructions regarding the resumption of the civil administration, organization of supplies, and public assistance.” General de Gaulle is expected to leave London soon for Algiers, where he may address the Consultative Assembly at the opening of its new session next week. His visit to Washington has been.scheduled for July, but the exact date is not yet fixed. PROGRESSING WELL French Resistance Campaign

RUGBY, June 15. An Algiers message states that M. de la Vigere, the French Commissioner ot the Interior, confirmed today that the situation inside France had progressed most satisfactorily, with the resistance groups more active than ever and others, including mobile guards, passing over to resistance in such a manner, that the Germans had to entirely change their defensive Everywhere, he said, whether it be Brittany, Savoy, Jura, the Vosges, the Faris region, or the centre of France, the call to arms would be obeyed, and some groups had already taken prisoners or killed thousands of Germans.

French patriots have taken prisoner more than 1000 Germans. These, combined with 7000 Germans taken prisoner in Italy by the French, arc considered to be insurance against the German threat to shoot French Partisans when they are captured. Iteuter's Geneva correspondent reports that French Partisans captured and executed a Gestapo chief, Major-General Werner, near Pontarlier. Seven French "terrorists” were summarily executed after a court-martial at Ciialons-sur-Marne, for sabotage of railway supplies, says Paris radio.