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NAZIS HIT TOWER-Cable picture from London shows damage to famous Tower of London hit by Nazi bombs. Group of build- ings was started for William the Conqueror and tinco has housed many noted Britons as prisoners.
French Counsellor In Washington Resigns
MAURICE GARREAU-DOMBASLE, commercial counsellor of the French Embassy in Washington, has broken with the Vichy government of Petain and resigned his post, refusing to ohey orders to return to France.
"The present French Government asked me to return to France, apparently with the Intention of appointing one of their friends in my place and giving me some other function in the home Administration," M. Garreau-Dombasle said, in a prepared statement given out to the press.
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URUGUAY TRIAL OF NAZIS
"I have sent my resignation, pointing out that I had remain. ed at my post since the armistice simply because I had never re- ceived a single word from the Vichy Administration and had been left free to defend here French interests, especially those of our colonies, without any possible German pressure. I Responding to the pressure of added that I would never accept outraged public opinion, the any task under. German control. Uruguayan authorities have de- "Of course, I am sorry to sever cided to proceed with the pro- my ties with a service to which Isecution of eight Nazi agents
life.
who are accused in an 80-page
have devoted most thirteen and typewritten-indictment--drawn
“Anyway, during my..
one half years as commercial coun-
sellor of the French Embassy in the up by the Public Prosecutor of United States,
all my
my efforts have conspiring against the Repub- been tending to
to improve
rove and develop lle's sovereignty.
friendly relations between France and this country. Our reciprocal trade agreements of 1933, for which I had so many obstacles to surmount, was the reward of these efforts,"
Worked With British
All the eight have been ar- rested and will be tried by the Supreme Court.
29-Point Accusation
In effect the Uruguayan Govern-
the internal
M. Garreac-Dombasle stressed thatment challenges the right of the since the beginning of the war now Nazis to interfere in
On
my energy and my experience to any
South
on in Europe he had closely co-affairs of this and other operated with the British
all American countries, for the indiet-
ment, besides economic questions.
detailing charges shall be always ready to devote against each prisoner, contains a 20- accusation against the Nazi point liberated part of the French Empire," party itself.
This includes the allegation that be continued, "remaining one of
the
the party approved of a military thousands of French unknown sol- dlers who hope and work for the plan to selze Uruguay and transform frecilom of their land. It will be the into a German agricultural colony. Jullus Dalldorf, known as the best way for me to express to my
many American friends my gratitude! "Little Fuchrer of Uruguay" is pro- for their lindness and their hos-tected from arrest by diplomatic im- pitality. I hope to have the oppor-munity, having been hurriedly ap- tunity to be of help to the cause of pointed Press Attache to the German democracy which I served for 32 Legation shortly before
gressional investigation started last успта.
M. Garreau-Dombaste served with May. distinction during the Best World
the Con-
War, winning the French War Cross German Bodies Stop
and the British Military Cross. He
Is a Commander of the Legion of Honour,
a
LYONS EXPLOSION
Swedes Fishing
Swedish fishermen have had to abandon herring fishing owing to the large number of bodies of drowned A German report broadcast from Germans footing off the south coast Parls Radio announced recently that's of the country.
fire had broken out in a face large tory in a suburb of Lyons, in un occupied France, where 1,200 workers were employed. A terrific explosion It adds that German authorities followed, Police are Investigating, have offered fishermen the equivalent and "n criminal act is considered of 3s. Od. for each body recovered, possible."
This is disclosed in a letter from a relative In Sweden received by a Scottish family.
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