TEN MILLION FRANCS
AWARDED BY THE NAZIS TO DIEPPE . IN RECOGNITION OF DISCIPLINE & CALM. ON OCCASION OF BRITISH RAID. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day. 12.35 p.m.) LONDON, August 23. Von Stuelpnagel has placed ten million francs at the disposal of the local prefect “in recognition of the discipline and remarkable calm of the population of Dieppe at the moment of the attempted British landing.” The Vichy News Agency says the moneywill be used for reimbursement for damage and the relief of the civilian victims of the British bombardment. Marshal Petain and Laval, it is reported, thanked von Stuelpnagel.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1942, Page 4
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