NAZIS IN FRANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1940, Page 5

NAZIS IN FRANCE

RELATIONS WITH PETAIN GOVERNMENT BECOMING STEADILY WORSE TREATMENT OF DEMOBILISED SOLDIERS. PLACED IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, August 2. The “Daily-Mail” says Hint demobilised French soldiers who have returned to their hoines in occupied France have been put in concentration camps as “prisoners of war,” following a sudden new order issued by the German military officers which completely cancels the previous arrangements for the repatriation of refugees between the occupied and unoccupied zones. The newspaper adds that it is increasingly clear that the relations between the Petain Government and the German authorities are steadily becoming worse. The Moscow radio says the Germans have taken the entire wheat and sugar beet crops of northern France. A message from Vichy says that the French Government has dismissed M. Massigli, Ambassador to Turkey, M. Thierry Ambassador to Rumania, and M. Brugere, Minister to Yugoslavia. No successors are named. M. Jean Paul-Boncour has been appointed Counsellor to the Embassy in China. The French radio states that the Minister of Finance, M. Boutillier, estimates the war damage in France at £800,000,000. A French Military Court has sentenced to death General de Gaulle, with military degradation and confiscation of his property, Daventry reports.