ACUTE CRISIS
REPORTED IN VICHY THREE MILITIA LEADERS ASSASSINATED. PETAIN IN GOOD HEALTH. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, November 23. Marshal Petain is in good health and is receiving visitors privately, but public receptions have been cancelled, .stated Ankara radio, quoting reports from Vichy. It added: "An acute crisis is reigning in Vichy, the nature of which is not known.” The Vichy radio announced that three leaders of Laval’s militia were assassinated yesterday. The secretarygeneral of the militia in a statement said: “The hour has come when we must strike against the terrorists. No Government can tolerate a state of affairs that borders on ‘ anarchy. Force must re-establish public security. No clemency can be shown.” According to the Algiers radio, more than 70,000 coal miners are on strike ■in France, and the Germans have threatened to take 800 hostages if work is not resumed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1943, Page 3
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144ACUTE CRISIS Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1943, Page 3
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