IN OCCUPIED FRANCE
AMERICANS BEING HELD
WASHINGTON. May 18
More than 2000 Americans are held as virtual hostages in occupied France. According to the State Department, no Americans have been allowed to leave Paris and the other cities in the past three weeks.
Possible motives suggested are, first, an effort to conceal troop movements, secondly, reprisals for the arrest of German seamen in the United States, and. thirdly, hostages ir the event of war with the United States.—U.P.A.
While playing football on Kilbirnie Park on Saturday afternoon, Mr. B. R. Ludlow, 16 Park Road, Miramar, had some ribs fractured. The Free Ambulance took him to hospital.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 116, 19 May 1941, Page 8
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