PEACE WITH NAZIS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 September 1941, Page 5

PEACE WITH NAZIS

4 SOUGHT BY THE VICHY GOVERNMENT MORE DEATH SENTENCES REPORTED. SABOTAGE PLOTS AGAINST GERMANY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 2. Count de Brinon, Vichy’s representative in occupied France, in a statement yesterday, said that France is attempting to negotiate with Germany and Italy for a final peace settlement, states the Vichy correspondent of the British United Press. This is believed to explain Admiral Darlan’s recent visits to Paris. The Vichy correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says that Admiral Darlan has removed Admiral Leluc from the position of chief commander of the navy, and that he has appointed Rear-Admiral Auphan, the youngest admiral, in his place. Admiral Leluc was one of the French plenipotentiaries who signed the armistice with Germany. Seven more persons have been sentenced to death in France for taking part in sabotage plots against Germany and for withholding information about such plots. The tribunal in Paris today sentenced two men to 20 years’ hard labour for attempting to establish Communist cells. Two women were given sentences of 12 years for distributing Communist propaganda. The Versailles correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says that a committee investigating the political affiliations of Paul Colette, the assailant of M. Laval, reported that it found no evidence supporting the suspicions of Count de Brinon, Vichy’s representative in occupied France, that' he was a “camouflaged Communist.” An employee in Vichy of the Ministry of Finance has been arrested and will be charged with sabotage following a fire at the Royal Thermal establishment at night which did damage estimated at 2,000,000, marks. A noted Paris stockbroker, Adolphe Rosenthal, was found murdered on an underground railway. Three men called at his house describing themselves as police under order to take him to a concentration camp. Rosenthal was shot from point-blank range with the same type of revolver as was used against Laval. A member of the American Assistance Committee in France has been expelled by the Vichy authorities for indulging in “anti-French” activities.