PRISONERS OF WAR
FRENCH SOLDIERS
A NEW ORDER ISSUED
LONDON, August *.
The "Daily" Mail" says that d«mobilised French soldiers who have returned to their homes in occupied France have been put into concentra* tion camps as "prisoners of war," following a new order issued by ; German military officers which completely cancels the previous arrangements for .the repatriation of refugees between the occupied and unoccupied zones., _ The newspaper adds that it is increasingly clear that the relations between the Petain Government and the German authorities are steadily becoming worse. . The French radio states that, tne Minister of Finance, M. BoutilUer, estimates the war damage in France at £800,000,000. ■ The Moscow radio says that the G«£ mans have taken the entire wheat and sugar-beet crops of northern France. A message from Vichy says that the French Government has dismissed M. Massigli, Ambassador to Turkey; M. Thierry, Ambassador to Rumania, arid M. Brugere, Minister to Yugoslavia. No successors are named. M. Jean Paul-Boncour has been appointed Counsellor to the Embassy in China..
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 30, 3 August 1940, Page 11
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