FRENCH PRECAUTIONS
THE TRIAL OF PETAIN
Rec 12.20 p.m. LONDON, July 22. Several hundred police, armed with rifles and tommy-guns, are tonight guarding the Palais de Justice, to wMch Petain was moved today in preparation^ for the. trial which begms tomorrow, reports the "Daily Express corespondent in Paris. Six hundred police will be ranged throughout the trial in seven cordons m and around the building. Workmen laboured throughout this morning preparing the room in which Petain will be lodged durine the trial. They bricked up the lower half of a window to protect him fron? anyone trying to shoot him from °Upetaln arrived at the Palais de Justice accompanied by his wife, in a convoy of four cars containing police escorts. To forestall demonstrations the authorities concealed the time ol his transfer from the fortress to the court.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 19, 23 July 1945, Page 4
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138FRENCH PRECAUTIONS Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 19, 23 July 1945, Page 4
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