LOOKING TO BRITAIN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 250, 19 September 1940, Page 9

LOOKING TO BRITAIN.

NAZI-OCCUPIED FRANCE. LONDON, Sept. 18. An Englishman interviewed on the French frontier after his escape from France said: “Anti-British feeling in occupied France has disappeared. Everyone is pinning his hopes on England. . “Many soldiers in unoccupied France significantly have not been demobilised. Those* who have been demobilised were allowed to take their equipment home. Britons of military age are confined to their homes and many are interned. A number of British soldiers are living hunted lives in the greatest misery, trying to find a means of escane from France. “Unoccupied France is approaching starvation point. The Germans have removed the entire potato crons and all stocks of butter, soap and sugar; all of which are unobtainable. The Germans send lorries to Marseilles to remove the cargoes from the incoming shins.” The Daily Telegraph Guernsev correspondont says tl\e _ Germans are vapidly stripping the island's shons. especially of icwellerv and food. The acceptance of “occupation marks” is oomnulsorv The local branches of the British “Big Five”;, banks are forced to use them at the rate of seven to the pound. The island’s Pnof) motor-cars are immobilised. Supplies of four are almost exhausted arid fresh. fruit is itenbtninnhle. Cinema" are showing only German horror films.