EX-MINISTERS SHOT

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 20, 18 October 1944, Page 8

EX-MINISTERS SHOT

Trials Of Frenchmen (Received October .17, 7 p.m.) LONDON, October 16.

Following n trial by a military court, Admiral Rene Platon, former Vichy Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies and Chief Counsellor to Marsha) Petain, was shot at Limoges, states the Paris newspaper “Soir.” Darquier de Pellepoix, former Commissioner for Jewish Affairs under Laval, was also shot at Limoges. Admiral de la Border, former commander-in-chief at Toulon, has been arrested on charges that he permitted the Germans to seize stocks of naval fuel oil and prevented the French Fleet from going to Africa. A woman clothes presser, a hospital matron, and a typiste are the-first three Frenchwomen chosen to sit in the juries which will judge the fate of collaborators at the forthcoming trials, says the “Daily Mail’s” Paris correspondent. Their names were drawn by lots from those of n number of women carefully selected for their unblemished record during the occupation. Among the first cases being heard on Oclober 23 are those of Georges Suarez.’ a well-known Paris journalist, and Inspector-General lusard, of the voluntary French Legion, raised to fight against the Russians.