20 FRENCHMEN TO BE SHOT

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23579, 5 March 1942, Page 6

20 FRENCHMEN TO BE SHOT

DEATH OF GERMAN 1 SENTRY -i ' KERRIS A E FOR ATTACK IN RARIS I LONDON. March 3. II The German military authorities in fi Paris have announced that 20 "Communists and Jew's" will be shot a? a reprisal for the murder of a German 5 sentry yesterday. Twenty more will be shot if the murderers arc not dis- ' covered before March 16. The sentry's funeral will take place y t'l-merrow. w'hen cinemas and pleasure resorts will be shut down lor the day. ’ Restaurants will close at 8 p.m. 5 The Berlin radio declared that four ' French'youths were involved in throw'll jn/;, a bomb at a German military post in Paris. The bomb did not explode, '• but a German sentry was killed with d a revolver. The four youths escaped. 5 It is reported frem Vichy that the Minister for the Interior AI, Pucheux), ‘ in the first statement detailing the ' widespread movement of resistance in '■ France,' said that in the last seven d months there had been 230 attacks '• against Germans, including organised ’• raids by dvnamite and bomb parties. r These attacks had resulted in 12.500 ' raids by the authorities and 5390 11 arrests.