UNREST IN FRANCE
BECOMING WIDESPREAD AMONG WORKERS & PEASANTS. IN SPITE OF SAVAGE TERRORISM. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, September 22. A Moscow radio message states that unrest in France is increasing. Building workers in Arras have struck and , peasants are hiding grain from the authorities. There is serious unrest in Pas de Calais, where the peasants are enraged at the requisitioning of the whole potato crop for Germany. A Vichy message states that the occupation authorities are reported to be doubling the requisitions of supplies for the winter. A Communist Party committeeman and a former Deputy, M. Jean Cathelas, has been sentenced to death in Faris. Twenty-two men and nine women were sentenced to imprisonment, from one year to life.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1941, Page 6
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125UNREST IN FRANCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1941, Page 6
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