FRETFUL FRENCH
MORE STRIKES BREAK OUT
INDUSTRIAL AREAS
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)
LONDON, October 31
Anti-German demonstrations have again broken out in many industrial centres in occupied France.
Vichy is reported to have obtained a new extension of. time'for the dispatch of workmen to Germany. This is believed to be some time in Jariu-
An order to workers*to report for medical examination has provoked partial strikes in the Annecy region. A general strike has- broken out in four places in the Arne Valley and also in Haute Savoie, where hardly a factory is working', at present.
The womenfolk of.the men who had been ordered to report for medical examination massed outside the depots and frustrated the efforts of the police to permit the doctors to carry out the task. A detachment of German mechanised troops from occupied France has entered Haute Savoie, and the Germans are reported to have arrested three of the strike ringleaders.
The Vichy police on- Wednesday raided 50 hotels, 350 houses, and 2350 flats and took into custody several of the occupants.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 107, 2 November 1942, Page 5
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