SAVAGE ACTION
TAKEN BY THE NAZIS AS SEQUEL TO ESCAPE OF GENERAL GIRAUD. ' REPORTED EXECUTION OF OFFICERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) VICHY, May 2. A special commission hhs arrived from Berlin with full powers from the Nazi Gestapo chief, Herr Himmler, to investigate, on the spot, the circumstances of General Giraud’s escape. Many arrests, especially of officers, have been made in the last three days in a French war prisoners’ camp. The Tass agency reports from Stockholm that 30 French officers in a prison camp were shot on suspicion of helping General Giraud to escape. A Berne report on April 28 said that the French general, Giraud, who commanded the Ninth Army in the Battle for France, had escaped from a German fortress prison, to safety in SwitX zerland. 7 General Giraud escaped from a' Ger-
man war prisoners’ camp in the Great War and brought back detailed plans of f the German defences around St. .Quentin.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1942, Page 3
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