OUTBURSTS IN FRANCE
MANIFESTATIONS OF PEOPLE’S FEELINGS.
In the Place Jaude, at Clermont-Fer-rand, a copy of “Signal,” the German propaganda publication, was burnt by a crowd of demonstrators composed of people of all classes. As the German publication burned, the crowd spontaneously began singing the Marseillaise” The police were forced to intervene, but it is not surprising that no arrests were made. At Marseilles, a company of Chasseurs Alpins was marching through the rue St ‘Ferreol and the Canebiere, the main artery leading to the docks. As the Chasseurs Alpins wheeled into the Canebiere. they suddenly broke into song, lustily singing “Vous n’aurez pas I’Alsace et la Loframe (You will not get Alsace and Lorraine) . At first there was a moment of stupor among the crowd. Soon everyone was cheering madly. Stepping from the pavement, old and young, men and women marched in step behind the soldiers, taking up the reA group of German officers sitting before a cafe hurriedly withdrew.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 December 1941, Page 4
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161OUTBURSTS IN FRANCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 December 1941, Page 4
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