FRENCH AFFAIRS
COMMUNISTS AND DE GAULLE PARIS, November 3. The Communist Party has issued a statement strongly denouncing the Government’s order disarming and dissolving the patriotic militia, and directing its representatives to fight for the militia’s preservation. The' statement declared that the Government’s decision “constitutes unmistakeable proof of disdain and mistrust towards the patriots who fought on the soil of the Fatherland for national liberation.” It accused General de Gaulle of treating the French Resistance Movement as a negligible factor and of brushing it aside in cavalier fashion only two months after the liberation of France.
POLICE CHIEF SENTENCED. (Rec. 9.45) LONDON, Nov. 3. A court martial at Annecy sentenced to death Colonel Lelong, form- » er police chief for Haute Savoie. Witnesses declared that Lelong asked the Germans to intervene against Marquis, as the result of which hundreds of patriots were killed.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 November 1944, Page 5
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