DE GAULLE TALKS OF FRANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1944, Page 5

DE GAULLE TALKS OF FRANCE

OTTAWA, July 12. The city glowed with the Tricolour and was beflagged with the Cross o£ Lorraine in honour of General de Gaulle, who arrived by plane. The Prime Minister, Mr. Mackenzie King, the Minister of Defence, Colonel Ralston, and other members of the Cabinet, and high army, navy, and air force officers- met General de Gaulle, at the airport. An army band played the National Anthem and the Marseila Mr. Mackenzie King said in a speech that General de Gaulle typified the spirit of France, which would restore her t>ast greatness. ~ . .- General de Gaulle said that nothing seemed more natural to old France than to see Canadian soldiers struggling on her soil for the same cause as in the first world war. Those who were well informed knew that France, even in the depths of misery, refused to give up. Today France stood upright and united. He added: "I wish to say for France that Canada is -a : dearer friend than ever.' • •

17 or 18, after having .a wound dressed yesterday, struck the man who dressed his wound. » ~ There are many examples of the bully and the sadist among the Germans. There were 60 or 70' French political prisoners in the Caen gaol, when the Allies landed in France. A German officer visited the gaol and ordered them to be marched to an open space and dig their own graves, and they were then shot in the back of the head and tossed into the pit. Friends later disinterred the bodies and found each corpse bruised across the breast and between the legs. The French assert that it was the custom of the Germans, when they wanted to extract information, to pass a chain across the breast and under the legs and twist it in the form of a tourniquet This is confirmed by a representative of the Geneva Red Cross Convention who is at present in Caen.