MANY RELEASED
INTERNED BRITISH SUBJECTS IN FRANCE
OTHERS CONCENTRATED IN THREE AREAS. STATEMENT IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Dav. 12.15 p.m.) RUGBY. February 20. Answering a question in the House of Commons. Mr R. A. Buller (Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs) said official information had been received that, all British subjects, including; those from the Bordeaux and Nantes j districts and from Dinan. who were I interned in occupied France, were' concentrated at three localities. ManyBritish subjects who were interned; had now been released. In general,; they fell into the categories of children I up to sixteen years, women over sixty > and aged and elderly men. There; were now no restrictions as to where; (hose who were released might live, j with the exception of certain coastal) areas. A majority of the persons re- i leased had returned to their former) homes.
Arrangements bad now been made io provide internees in France witii small sums of money to purchase necessaries and the United States authorities had boon authorised to incur expenditure on clothing ;md medical supplies.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 February 1941, Page 6
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180MANY RELEASED Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 February 1941, Page 6
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