FRENCH SABOTAGE
explosions’at arsenal
LONDON, November 18
French patriots have blown up a gasholder and a powder magazine within the arsenal at Grenoble, causing tremendous damage, reports . a correspondent on the French frontier of the “Daily Telegraph.” The arsenal’s guard of 10 German soldiers as well as 15 Frenchmen were killed. The Germans, as a reprisal, arrested '4OO Frenchmen.
Frenchs patriots also stormed the Grenoble prison and released three so-called terrorists. They raided the Grenoble town hall and destroyed records. They killed Andre Bonam, aged 64, former Vichy colonial governor and later Chief of Propaganda. The body was found in a gutter near a car in which he had been driving home.
The “Tribune de Geneve” says that the number arrested now totals 1500, and of these 600 have been named as hostages. A state of siege is reported to have been proclaimed .in. Grenoble, with a curfew.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 November 1943, Page 6
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