A BRUTAL ORDER
FRENCH AIRMEN AS PRISONERS.
ATTACKING OF PARACHUTISTS
FIFTY LIVES IN REPRISAL.
(United Press Association. —Copyrignt.) (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, May 26.
The German News Agency lias announced that after the reported maltreatment of German prisoners in France, Marshal Goering ordered that all French Air Force prisoners be shackled immediately after capture and kept in separate camps, and ahso deprived all allowances. “Every time a murder of a German airm.au is. reported, 25 captured French .airmen twill be shot,” says the agency. “If German airmen are attacked while, parachuting for their lives, 50 French prisoners will be shot. These measures will not apply to captured British airmen, as the British have not given reason for such counter-measures.” ,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 197, 29 May 1940, Page 6
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