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FRENCH CLEAN-UP

VICHY MINISTER ARRESTED (Recd. 10.30 a.m..) LONDON, Oct. 27. Charles Fremicourt, aged 67, Vichy Minister of Justice, June and July 1940, was arrested for giving information to the enemy, says Reuter’s Paris correspondent. Fremicourt was dismissed from the presidency of the French Court of Appeal by the purge commission, last month. The Paris Assize Court, to-day, sentenced Felgines, who was one of the broadcasters from the Paris radio under the Vichy regime, to 20 years’ hard labour on charges of collaborating with the Germans and aiding ihe German war effort. LAVAL~AUCTION. LONDON, October 27. More than £68,000 was raised on the first day of a sale of property belonging to Pierre Laval. Each of Laval’s famous white ties realised 37/-. His property. Chateau Chateldon, at Clermont Ferrant, in Southeastern France, will be made into a reception centre for refugees. JEWISH BUSINESSES ""LONDON, Oct. 26. About 40,000 owners of small businesses, mainly furniture, textiles, lurs, clothing, and jewellery, formed a “protective association” to oppose any order from the Government to return businesses sold to non-Jewish Frenchmen during the occupation. The association stated that if the businesses had not been bought they would have been liquidated by the Germans, resulting in serious loss to French economy. There have already been a number of disturbances in commercial districts of Paris where the Jews tried to regain possession of their premises.

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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 October 1944, Page 5

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FRENCH CLEAN-UP Greymouth Evening Star, 28 October 1944, Page 5

FRENCH CLEAN-UP Greymouth Evening Star, 28 October 1944, Page 5

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