LAVAL TO GALLOWS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1942, Page 3

LAVAL TO GALLOWS

DEMAND OF DEMONSTRATORS IN MARSEILLES DORIOT GANGSTERS FIRE ON CROWD. VICTIMS INCLUDE WOMEN & CHILD. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 16. Shouting “Vive la Republique” and “Laval to the Gallows,” 100,000 demonstrators marched through streets black with people in celebration of Bastille' Day in Marseilles, state reports which have reached General de Gaulle’s headquarters. The crowds were particularly hostile outside the labour recruiting office for workers to Germany, and also in front of the headquarters of the Tricolour Legion and the military prison. As they passed the United States Consulate there were prolonged cries of “Vive I’Amerique.” Some supporters of Doriot’s Fascist party opened fire on the crowd with tommy guns, killing two men and two women, and wounding six, including a child. The funeral of the victims, which had been arranged for July 17. has been cancelled by the police, evidently in fear of further demonstrations. Thousands gathered at Chimbery shouting “Savoy is French,” and sing- 1 ing the Lorraine march and the “Marseillaise.” The police vainly tried to break up the crowd, and when the demonstrators clashed with members of Petain’s Legion who tried to organise a counter demonstration, the latter had to be taken into protective custody to protect them from the crowd, which waited for them outside the police station. They escaped by the back way.

REFUGEE JEWS ROUND-UP IN FRANCE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, July 16. The German radio announced that 20.000 Jews are being rounded up in occupied France for deportation to east Europe. The deportees are alien Jews from Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia. A Vichy report states that a bomb exploded in a German-occupied building in Nantes on the night of July 15. Two gendarmes were shot dead near Nancy while chasing three so-called Communist agitators. Two were caught, and the third, an Italian, shot himself. Following the escape of 18 Communists from a Compeigne concentration camp, 1400 Communists were sent to an unknown destination in the east.