NAZI TERRORISM
EXECUTIONS IN FRANCE LABOUR LEADERS TORTURED. DEATH SENTENCES IN VICHY. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, January 21. It is reported from Geneva that the Germans in December executed two prominent French Labour leaders, Gabriel Peri and Lucien Sampen. Both were tortured, but refused to give information concerning the French underground movement. A Paris message reports that the Germans today shot two Frenchmen convicted of activity favouring the enemy. In Vichy four officers of the French ship Formigny were sentenced to death, in their absence, on charges of preventing the captain resisting British forces who seized the vessel off Portugal on December 12.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 January 1942, Page 4
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