OCCUPIED FRANCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 September 1940, Page 8

OCCUPIED FRANCE

LESS ANTI-BRITISH FEELING GERMANS SEIZE STOCKS [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, September 18. An Englishman, who was interviewed at the French frontier aft? r his escape from France, said: “The antir-British feeling in occupied France has disappeared. Everyone is pihiiing his hopes on England. Many soldiers in unoccupied France, significantly, have not. been demobilised, and those who are demobilised have been allowed to take their equipment home.; British subjects of military age are confined to their homes. Many have been interned, A number of British soldiers are living hunted lives in the greatest misery, trying to find means .of escape from France. “Unoccupied France is approaching starvation point. The Germans have removed the entire potato crops and all stocks of butter, soap, and sugar, all of which are now unobtainable. The Germans send lorries to Marseilles to remove the cargoes from incoming ships.” The Guernsey correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says the Germans are rapidly stripping the island’s shops, especially those containing jewellery and food. Acceptance of “occupation marks” is compulsory, and local branches of the British “Big Five” banks are forced to use them at the rate of seven to the £. The island’s 6000 motor-cars are immobilised. Supplies of flour are almost exhausted and fresh fruit is unobtainable. The cinemas are showing only. German horror films. GENERAL CATROUX’S APPEAL. LONDON, September 17. The former Governor-General of Indo-China (General Catroux), who has joined General de Gaulle in London, has made an appeal to all Frenchmen all over the world to give their support to General de Gaulle. He said that the fact that he was in London showed that he had placed himself in the best position to continue . the struggle for free Frenchmen. The news of the armistice had come as a great surprise to the people of Indo-China. They were stupefied by the announcement and could not understand why the great French forces had not been employed against the enemy, , RAILWAY REOPENED. VICHY, September 18. The railway between Paris and Marseilles has been reopened. The bridge across the Yser, which was destroyed on June 24, has been reconstructed.