TRADING WITH ENEMY
TWO FRENCH BANK DIRECTORS , ARRESTED. BIG QUANTITY OF GOLD INVOLVED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. August 19. Two directors of the State Bank of Morocco have been arrested under an order of the French Committee r -f National Liberation. They are M.M. Bapst and De Soubry, and they are charged with trading with the enemy, says a correspondent at Allied Headquarters in North Africa. They are now in prison at Rabat. Their arrest followed an inquiry concerning the export, by the State Bank, of about 700 kilograms of gold, and the allegation is that it was exported in February to Vichy for Germany.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1943, Page 4
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105TRADING WITH ENEMY Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1943, Page 4
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