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COURTS TO DEAL WITH SABOTEURS

(By John Elliott)

SPURRED TO ACTION by a series of acts of

WOMEN

violence in the occupied and unoccupied zones cul-DIPLOMATS,

minating in the assessination of a colonel of the

German Army in the Paris subway, the government MUST BE

of Marshal Henri Petain has decided on a number

of drastic measures to repress "communist and SINGLE

anarchist” agitation.

The "Journal Officiel" announced on August 23 the setting-up of special sections of military courts to deal with the situation.

These special tribunals are empowered by the decree to "act quickly and strike severely" the "Marxist propagandists” and can impose the death penalty.

FRENCH MOOD OF DISTRUST

of

From the decisions of these NU HADY ecuris no appeal will be pussible and their sentences will be executed immediately.

Reprisals

In taking this action, the Petain government hopes to avert uny repetition of incidents such as might involve wholesale measures

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Lord Ponsonby, describing him- self as an "expert witness, having served In Constantinople Copenhagen." told the House of Lords that he was in favour of women diplomats.

"But I have been thwarted by he one problem,"

said. "The Ambassador's wife can contribute much to the success of his career,

what but

about the Ambass adoress's husband?

"He could wander into the chan- cellery and make himself a per- fect nuisance, and no one could say anything to him.

"You can tell women candidates they must be spinsters, but that' would raise another lot of ques-

of reprisal by the German mili- tions, and I think we had better tary authorities against the French not confuse this complicated civilian population.

question.

For. In a decree General Ernst von Schaumburg, the Gorman military commander of Paris,

warned that in the event of any

BEAT DEATH

further attacks on German sol- may

diors, Frenchmen held under -arrest by the authorities of Occupation would be regarded as hostages and a number of them would be

executed cor- responding to the enormity of

THRICE

Although reports intensified anti-German movements throughout occupied Europe mostly be attributed to the feeling that German strength has been switch- ed eastwards and to the fact that in many areas Means of repression of Commu- formed the subject Italian troops are replac-nist activities

of dictission at a Cabinet meet ing the German occupaing held with Marshal Petain,

Pierre Pucheu, the ried man. tion forces, news of anti-presiding.

newly appointed Minister of the Petain and anti-German Interior, informed the meeting of disturbances in Paris is the measures taken by the Vichy authorities to repress Communist interesting.

plots and acts of sabotage and terrorism.

ests.

the offence.

Gesture To Workers

Leading Stoker William Arnold; of Birkenhead, the only rating to escape from the submarine Thatis in Liverpool Bay in 1939, is walk- ing about Cape Town a very wor-

His death escape on the Thetis does not worry him.

The fact that last year he was torpedoed in the Atlantic does not worry him.

Nor is he upset about his escape when serving on a cruiser which was sunk-off Crete.

Brittany has hitherto been the only province of France where sabotage and even attacks on Ger-

He was afloat then for hours on mans have been noted on anything like the scale of some other occu- Making a gesture of appease-a hand-made raft until rescued pied countries.

ment toward the working classes by a destroyer.

What does worry him is, that Sporadit moements in France to show them that action against.

aimed at the somewhere floating off Crete is his must not be exaggerated, for the Cominunist is not

the famous Thetis impression most neutral travellers proletariat, the Cabinet decided, to cap bearing

And he does mind about get is one of resignation and pre-prepare a programme of concrete ribbon.

the conse-that. occupation with individual inter-measures to overcome

quences of the slowing down in activity which has Many Frenchmen are making industrial

from ว lack of raw fortunes by collaboration, Nearly resulted every one has relatives who are materials. No indication was given prisoners. There is a lack of re- of nature of the program alisation that the last thing the of the programmes.

While attempting to diminish: Darian Government wants is the

Petain gov- release of the prisoners, who are social discontent, the

of not being erament means. rightly suspected

to act pitilessly enthusiastic collaborators for the toward the Cominunists, whose re-

cent acts, it considers as tending. new order.

to compromise the "national re- volution." It is. considered at Vichy that the recent series of demonstrations and acts of sabotage against the German Most people who have been in troops have been ordered by Mog- France confirm the violent anti-cow, with the object of provoking which would lead to foreign feeling there, and general incidents discourtesy to travellers. The open conflict between the French French, however, always show civilian population and the oc- xenophobia in times of trouble, as cupation authorities.

Discourtesy To Strangers

in the 1925 catastrophic fall of the All Paris newspapers published tranc, when British and American: prominently under a two-column tourists who were bringing good.head General von Schaumburg's

the money into

country were: warning to the French civilian booed and stoned.

population, In France, as in French North Africa, one gets black looks if heard speaking a foreign language; or even French with a foreign ac- cent, but, in fairness one must say that this attitude applies to other peoples.

AIR-RAID SHELTER POPULATION DROPS

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An official census showed that 104,000 persons made use of,pub- lic air-raid shelters in London during July while 550,000. used domestic shelters.

The Warning

Commenting, "Let Petit Paris- "This notice is len" said:

warning to the doubtless a last saboteurs of French unity who are acting for the account of the Soviet and the Anglo-Jewish plu. tocracy. It reminds. Frenchmen, forgetful of the defeat, that the German authorities can take mea sures much more, energetic and severe in regard to the popula tion."

Marcel Dest, writing in the Paris "L'Ocuvre," saw machine, tions of President Roosevelt and American Ambassador William D. Leahy (now on holiday In Switzerland), behind the Com munist. activities,

This compared with a record total of 470,200 persons using pub+ lie shelters and 2.134,000 domestic shalters during the height of the Rumours developed that two air blitz last November.

men had been arrested at Mar- Only 22,000 took refuge in subseilles in connection with the un ways in July as compared with a solved assassination of Marx record of 54.000 in February, the Dormoy, who was a Socialist len- census showed. :

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