1941-08-28 — Page 16

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 28, 1941:

Wounded

FRENCH QUISLINGS SHOT

Laval And Marcel Deat Slightly Dramatic Scene At Versailles

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PIERRE LAVAL AND MARCEL DEAT WERE SHOT AT AND WOUNDED – THOUGH NOT SERIOUSLY

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AT VERSAILLES YES- TERDAY AFTERNOON, SAID THE VICHY OFFICIAL NEWS AGENCY LAST NIGHT. THE ASSAILANT WAS A YOUNG MAN NAMED PAUL COLETTE, AGED 29, BORN AT MENDEVILLE IN 1912.

EMBARGO WIDENED

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President Roosevelt yes- terday proclaimed an ex- tension of the export con- trol system over all mili- tary supplies.

His executive order authorises special treatment for ships carry- ing defence supplies and places under export licensing control all military equipment, machinery, tools and supplies necessary for their manufacture, which pre- viously were not under control.

Count Fernand de Brinon, French Ambas- sador in the occupied zone, who himself nar- rowly escaped afterwards made the follow- ing statement to the press, according to Paris radio.

"This afternoon Laval and Deat which I paid no particular at- have been the victims of an tention.

"A FEW MOMENTS LATER ! attack under the following cir- cumstancest

OBSERVED LAVAL SUPPORT- BY SOME PEOPLE. HE ED SAID "THEY HAVE HIT ME.' IMMEDIATELY RE-

"At Versailles the first French volunteers of the anti-Bolshevist

egion were to enter the barracks. HE WAS

"At the beginning of the MOVED TO THE VERSAILLES

French ceremony the

colours HOSPITAL, were hoisted and La Marscil. "Deat was also wounded. lalse sung for the first time in occupied territory.

"Thereafter, the official visitors

inspected the barracks.

"Faint Reports"

'Thousands of the

Versailles population in a procession, in which I was present, passed un- der the porch of the barracks.

"According to preliminary in- vestigations Laval and Deat must

"Not Serious”

"The alleged attacker has been arrested He is a young man who has admitted that he joined the legion for the purpose of committing the attack,

"Laval was shot in the arm and in his side. The bullet has been extracted,

"Deat was also shot in the arm.

Practical effect will be to limit exportation from the Philippines of items referred to but will per- mit them to flow freely from the U.S. International News Ser-j have been immediately behind is not considered to be serious.” vice.

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Colette's Story

Brought before the examining born at Mondeville in the magistrate, Colette said he was

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de-

"I only arrived in Versailles this afternoon as a volunteer." he said. "I had decided to en- list in the Legion with the idea of shooting down someone, The only men I could recognise among the personages was the former Prime Minister, Mr. Laval. That is why I fired at him."

The inquiry is still continuing. ― Reuter.

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A valedictory address will be delivered by the Honourable Mr. J. J. Paterson on behalf of the Community of Hong Kong, and a Chinese address by the Hon. Sir Robert Kotewall, C.M.G., LL.D., at the conclusion of which a screen will be presented to His Excel- lency, and a small gift to Lady

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THE JAPANESE

OCCUPA- TION FORCES IN FOOCHOW ARE EXPECTED TO BE TOTAL- LY WITHDRAWN WITHIN A WEEK, THEIR ULTIMATE DE- ΤΟ STINATION IS BELIEVED

BE INDO-CHINA. FOR AN OFFENSIVE AGAINST YUNNAN

PROVINCE, ACCORDING ΤΟ REPORTS CIRCULATING IN FOOCHOW TO-DAY.--REUTER.

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Senator Johnson, speaking

in San Francisco yesterday. predicted the United States would be at war in a couple of months and "perhaps it will start at several places simultaneously." Interna- tional News Service.

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State Department officials

in Washington point out that an amicable settlement in the Pacific is possible through the Nine-Power Pact, Inter- national News Service.

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For the past few days, says a special cable from London, mysterious voice, which does not emanate from the B.B.C. or any known anti-Gernian stations, ha.. been interrupting the Deutsch- landsender news broadcasts with fierce denunciations of the, war: and of the Nazi regime. By using the same wavelength, the un

already known interrupter has conveyed to his unwitting Ger man audience that "Germany's great victories merely mean that thousands of German wives are widows," that German wounded no longer believe in. victory, that conditions on the eastern front are worse than ever and the sufferings of the troops inconceivable.

now

"Why," he asks repeatedly, "are the German casualty Agures resulting from the great victories never given,"

Deutschlandsender in an at. tempt to drown the voice "has in the last day or two. made its broadcasts louder in tone and has been endeavouring by nonston methods to eliminate intervals from its programmes.