FOOD TAKEN BY GERMANS

Southland Times, Issue 24228, 11 September 1940, Page 5

FOOD TAKEN BY GERMANS

Threat Of Famine In France

INHABITANTS GIVEN NO AID BY NAZIS

(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received September 10, 6.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 9.

Dr Joseph Stokes, jun., who has returned from a six weeks’ tour of unoccupied France on behalf of the Quaker Relief Organization, said that the Germans were doing nothing to help the inhabitants of the unoccupied zones, who were threatened with famine. The Germans, he said, could permit food to enter, but in fact they were removing food to Germany, showing that they needed it themselves. Describing the Vichy (rial as having been deliberately engineered, General Charles de Gaulle, broadcasting from

London, said that the Vichy Government, acting under Hitler’s horsewhip, had the task of convincing the world that France did wrong to enter the war. To this so-called Government, people were criminals who believed that France was theatened or thought that France should fight well and so were those who resisted this temptation of selling themselves into slavery without even drawing a sword.

“Although in the whole world,” General de Gaulle continued, “from Gibraltar to Kamchatka, from _ Magellan to Behring Straits, not a ' single person seriously doubts that those responsible for the war are the dictators in Berlin and Rome, yet a monstrous trial has been started in France against Frenchmen who are being prosecuted for this offence. This is a truly mag-

nificent achievement, magnificent, let me hasten to add, for the enemy.”

One day, General de Gaulle said in conclusion, without doubt there would be a real trial of the guilty party and there was every reason to believe that many of those now prosecuting would then be in the dock. At the t request of Germany the Vichy Government is terminating diplomatic representation in German-occupied countries. French India has rallied to General de Gaulle and denounced the Vichy Government.