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Frontiers Closed To Stop Exit

Of Frenchmen.

VICHY OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

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VICHV. April 11

\ iimimuiiiijnc condc.mning the effort* of young Frenchmen 1o join the <b* Gaulle movement, says "Ijcd -aslrav bv insidious projiaganda. 1 hey lake part, in clandestine act- again-t Ihe German ant horit ie- in the occupied /one <.r

T-iKiunil. t«> pro mi -e.- of de Gaulle's recruiting apenl-. *1 iie French 'ioveinment has frequently i-ou«ht cicmerl. v for many of these men whom 1 lie ' ■eraiaii authoritie- have arre-led and Jit. nir.i. Mar-ha] retain him-elf has a ain and a'jain acted I<i >aip "=tndeiian.l M'li>M>]lMiy» from 1 lie firm:.' -quad. Such all apjual for clemcm y CHiinot lie indefinitely met favourably Thrrefoie the <*..v ernment lia- del crminod on llie .-evcre-1 mca-urc- to end Ihi- emijrrat i<*n." The French frontier i- closed to all FrenchnicTi U-t wwn the <if to 4<l to pit* vent them fleeing from Frame in .join < iene; a 1 dc* Gaulle. It i- officially -lated that "boat- daily trv to ]ca\.* the coa-t- of Normandv and Jirillnnv for Hi itain. French C«>n-ul- in Spain daily pick tip youn~ volunteers from Fian- f aiming to join < .cneral de * ia u lie."