PEACE TREATY
REPORTED CONSIDERATION IN VICHY OFFERS BY NAZIS GIFT OF BRITISH TERRITORY. IN PLACE OF ALSACE & LORRAINE < j3v Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON. August 21. ’ A dispatch from the Drench frontier to the Free French newspaper in London says that a peace treaty is under consideration by tin 1 Vichy Government, the terms of which would give Germany coveted 'oases in France and North Africa. 1 n return German troops of occupation would be partially withdrawn. the remainder taking up friendly occupation as in parts of Italy.
France, it is stated. would obtain British possessions in Africa and Italy would abandon her outstanding claims against France and would be given Egypt instead. Hitler is stated to be forming a new colonial army in the light of experience gained in Libya for the purposes of occupation. Alsace and Lorraine would become permanently German, but France would be given part of southern Belgium to replace them. UNDER CONTROL ALL FRENCH SENATORS & DEPUTIES. SENT TO REMOTE RESORT. I By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, August 20. “The Times” correspondent on the French frontier says that to prevent them from spreading “bitterness” the Vichy Government has ordered all senators and deputies to take up their quarters at th? Montdore mountain spa, which is 60 miles south-west of Vichy and
is difficult to reach. The Vichy correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph" says that between 30,000 and 40.000 so-called Communists have been arrested in France in recent days, mos’tly in the occupied zone, following renewed railway sabotage. This, has included an incident at Juvisy, a railway junction eight miles south of Paris, where a serious accident was narrowly averted. The Paris police are offering £5.500 for information leading to the arrest of those responsible. Paris radio announced that two men had been shot for demonstrating against Germany. An extract from an order issued by Herr Robert Wagner, Gauleiter and Staathalter of Alsace, and quoted by the headquarters of the Free French forces, states that from April 27; 1941, anyone listening to foreign wireless stations will be immediately arrested and punished by from two to five years in a concentration camp. Anyone speaking against Germany will be hanged. From June 1. anyone wearing a Basque beret of whatever colour, with or withe ut a peak, will be immediately arrested and punished by one year in a concentration camp. In the above-mentioned cases the arrest will be made by the police, special police or any member of the party in uniform. A German official in Paris today told the German-controlled newspapers that the release of French prisoners of war in future would depend on Vichy’s policy toward Germany. When M. Laval was put out of office Berlin considered the dismissal as an anti-Ger-man move.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1941, Page 5
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