GENERAL DENTZ REPRIEVED

Dominion, Volume 39, Issue 28, 27 October 1945, Page 7

GENERAL DENTZ REPRIEVED

Life Imprisonment Imposed PARIS, October 25. General de Gaulle has reprieved General Dentz, the former High Commissioner of Syria, who was sentenced to death on August 20. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. General Dentz will serve his sentence without hard labour on account of his age, which is 64 years. One of the charges against him was that in 1941 he took up arms to oppose the entry into Syria by the British Army and the Free French troops. A correspondent says that in the ordinary way he would have been executed, but soon after the death sentence was passed trouble broke out in Syria, and since General de Gaulle blamed the British for causing it, he would have found it difficult to execute the man who opposed British entry into the territory. , Other charges against General Dentz were that in obedience, to Vichy orders he placed aerodromes in Syria at the disposal of the Germans. NORWEGIAN CHARGES (Received October 26, 7 p.m.) OSLO, October 26. The Norwegian Government has sent a bill of indictment to Nuremberg against 24 of the Nazi leaders accused of conspiracy to make war and war crimes, charging them with responsibility for the German attack on Norway. »