LECLERC'S THREAT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 134, 4 December 1944, Page 5

LECLERC'S THREAT

APPARENTLY CANCELLED

- LONDON, December 4. General Lecierc's proclamation threatening to shoot German hostages if French soldiers.are killed by snipers in Strasbourg has prompted the immediate announcement from Allied supreme headquarters that the Allied armies • are operating in conformity with the Geneva Convention, reports the Paris correspondent of "The Times."" Article Two of the Convention prohibits reprisals against prisoners of war. .

. Reuters Paris correspondent says that the latest development in the controvery is an official statement from the Sixth Army Group that General Leclerc and his troops have now left Strasbourg on further operations. This appears to mean that General Leclerc's proclamation is automatically cancelled, as he is no longer in control 'of the city.

General Eisenhower has again issued a grave warning to the German army in Holland against commitDlng atrocities against the Dutch resistance forces. He said: "Evidence at hand shows that the warning contained in my message of September 7 was not heeded. The guilty, will be brought to justice."