BEFORE ARMISTICE

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 284, 28 August 1944, Page 5

BEFORE ARMISTICE

Many Nazis Cut To Pieces

LONDON, August 25. Describing events in Paris before the German armistice “trick,” a ‘Daily Mail” correspondent with the I'rancoAmoricnn column says: “Riots swept Paris on August 19. in which scores of Germans were slaughtered. The city from one end to the other became a mass of small-scale but bloody fights. Rioting went on on the Saturday. Sunday and Monday. The people forgot to cat and sleep. Germans in the working-class districts were attacked from all sides. I hey retreated into the houses and fired pointblank at the frenzied crowds. Many Frenchmen died, but they stormed the Huns and cut them to pieces. . “Mobs surrounded the Quai O Orsay, refusing to believe that Laval had fled, and shouted. ‘Bring out Laval. Off with his head.’ The Germans at first tried to stem the flood with brutal reprisals and wholesale shootings. They lined up 500 partisans and shot them and flung their bodies into the Seine. Then they began to cringe because blood-lust. consumed business men armed with pistoD and knife-slashing Apaches. ’ Refugees from Paris told the correspondent Of the Associated Press of Great Britain that the Grand Palais on the Champs Elyseo was burnt with the loss of scores of lives during a circus performance on Wednesday, when a pitched battle broke out between patriots and Germans in the surrounding streets.