HUNGER RIOTS
PEOPLE IN FRANCE
NAZI WARNING ISSUED
DEATH FOR SUPPORT OF COMMUNISM
(Rec. 2.15 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 17. Private messages from Lyons say that the recent disturbances in France are not attributable to Communists, but to hungry people who were demonstrating: in the market placers against the scarcity of food and the rising prices.
The Geneva correspondent of "The Times," reporting to this effect* says that General Stulpnagel, the commander of the German forces of occupation, warned the population that anyone supporting Communism was liable to the death penalty and that anyone who possessed tracts in German and did not hand them to the police was liable to 15 years' imprisonment with hard laboui*.
The Vichy correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain states that German and French police arrested the wives of the former Communist deputies Gaston Midol, Pierre Benoist, and Rethelier for possessing Communist tracts. He adds that the hostility t "national revolution" has led to the removal of a number of mayors and councillors.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 42, 18 August 1941, Page 8
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