DEATH SENTENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 30, 3 August 1940, Page 11

DEATH SENTENCE

GENERAL DE GAULLE

MILITARY COURT'S ACTION

TREASON CHARGE

(By. Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.).

(Received August 3, 11 a.m.)

LONDON, August 2.

A military court at ClermontFerrand condemned General 'da Gaulle to death and military degrad*. tion for treason by attacks against the State and desertion to a foreign country. In a statement in London,-General de Gaulle said: "The sentence is thtt of 9. court largely under the influence,' and probably under the direct orders, of the common enemy. That enemy will one day be driven from the coil of France. On that day I will submit myself willingly to the judgment of the people."

The London office of the Hava* Agency has severed connection wit& the French organisation, which supports the Petain Government, The.London service is now supporting General de Gaulle and has been renamed the Agence L.E.F. (Liberte, Egalite, Frateiv nite). : . The agency hopes to become one pi the principal means of getting out ot France reliable information regarding the course of events there- and also to become the primary independent source of reliable news for free Frencftmen throughout the world.