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OF OPERATIONS AGAINST BRITAIN STOPPAGE OF TRAFFIC IN FRANCE. STRICT CONTROL IN STRATEGIC AREAS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day. 10.15 a.m.) LONDON. July 28. The British United Press Vichy correspondent says the Germans have closed road as well as rail traffic between occupied and unoccupied France. Some quarters consider that the step indicates that operations against Britain from Northern France are imminent. An official French communique states: “The return of refugees to occupied zones and the transfer of Government services to Paris has been provisionally stopped.’ The French radio announced that German-occupied France has been split up into five zones. Refugees are forbidden to enter or leave two of the most strategic areas. One of these embraces the Channel ports and their hinterland. The other takes m the Maginot Line, from Switzerland to Belgium. Special permission to travel must be obtained in other zones and can only be granted to farmers, doctors, nurses or officials. It is learned that trains are being held up in Moulins, preventing refugees reaching Paris, including a thousand bank workers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 July 1940, Page 6
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