FIGHT IN PARIS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 279, 22 August 1944, Page 5

FIGHT IN PARIS

Students & Germans ENEMY MEASURES LONDON. August 21. Paris radio broke four days of silence at midnight last night with the following proclamation from the German military commander: "Elements in Taris' have taken up arms against the occupation authorities. This revolt will bo rigorously suppressed and. if necessary, without any consideration." Dozens of armed clashes were occurring between students and Germans throughout the city, and the Germans were using machineguns against the demonstrators, said a Frenchman who left Paris a few hours previously, and met American patrols near Versailles, according to a British United Press correspondent. Big fires are reported to be raging’ in some”parts of Paris. ’ The German military commander, in a proclamation over Paris radio, said: 1 make one more appeal to the population to keep their heads. Only a reasonable attitude will make possible the avoidance of ’bloodshed among the innocent and damage to the city. The curfew is now fixed, from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. Access to public highways is also forbidden in the daytime in the districts which will possibly become military zones., lhe troops have been ordered to use their arms without warning against civilians who do not comply with these orders. “All places of entertainment and cafes will be closed, and gatherings ot more than three persons are forbidden. Anyone "iving information to the enemy will be treated as a spy. The troops will use their arms in cases of infringements ol anv of these orders." The measures amount virtually to martial law.