DISMISSED DEPUTIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 August 1941, Page 5

DISMISSED DEPUTIES

MEETING IN DEFIANCE OF PETAIN OPPOSITION FORMED. CONTACT WITH OCCUPIED ZONE. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, August 27.It is reported from Vichy that more than 100 of the French Deputies who lost their positions when Marshal Petain dismissed Parliament have met iit a lump session and formed themselves into an opposition to Petain. The "Daily Telegraph's” correspondent. Mr Wareing. says that, the fact that this information, and also the recent news of sabotage, has been allowed to emerge from France can be interpreted as an attempt to justify the repressive action. The "Daily Mail” says that the recalcitrant Deputies are believed to possess a system of underground communication between the occupied and unoccupied zones of France through which news that is normally censored is being widely circulated. BELGIAN GOLD HANDED TO NAZIS BY BANK OF FRANCE. NEW YORK, August 26. M. Hubert Ansiaux. inspector of the National Bank of Belgium, before leaving for London by the Atlantic Clipper today, said that the Bank of France has lately given 230,000,000 dollars in Belgian gold to Germany. "The gold was left deposited in France from November, 1939. to October 5, 1940. and when the collapse of France was imminent the Belgian Government asked the bank to transfer the gold to the United States." lie said. "Instead, the bank shipped it to Dakar, after which, without consulting us, it transferred the gold to the Reichsbank’s branch in Marseilles, which has since sent it to Berlin.”