UNDER NAZI RULE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 86, 22 January 1942, Page 8

UNDER NAZI RULE.

: f v CONDITIONS IN PARIS. ••f jPOOD SITUATION DESPERATE. tlq ■ LONDON, November 24. - -Not many people realise wliat life in a German-occupied country means. The Nazis pride themselves on “treating France leniently.” The following words telegraphed to the 8.8. C. the other day from Lisbon by someone who had just left Paris show what life under German rule is like: “The food situation is desperate. Everyone is hungry and, whether rich or poor, lacks necessities. Supplies are so limited that frequently one one tenth of the people in queues get anything. Prices of foodstuffs have gone up out of all proportion to wages and salaries. The 'average family cannot even afford a dish of carrots or turnips. There had been no potatoes for several weeks before I left; they were solemnly promised in the newspapers every few days, but they never appeared.” V The same correspondent describes how German officers protest if they hear English spoken in a restaurant. An American who refused to stop speaking English when ordered to do so by a German officer was thrown into prison for several days. In Paris the Nazis continue their anti-Jewish cruelties just as they did in Berlin. One day thousands of Jews were rounded up, and herded like cattle into a court at the back of the Opera House. Each time, the court was full they were driven into auto-buses and taken off to Concentration camps. The French people voiced their disgust at this brutality in no uncertain terms. [{> .*... - ; t .