PETAIN’S TRIAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 July 1945, Page 5

PETAIN’S TRIAL

protection measures (Rec 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 22. Several hundred police armed with rifles and tommy-guns are to-night guarding the Palais de Justice, to which Petain was moved to-day . in preparation for the trial beginning to-morrow, reports the “Daily Express” correspondent. Six hundred police will be ranged throughout the trial in seven cordons in and around the building. Workmen . laboured throughout this morning preparing the room in which Petain will, be lodged during the trial. They bricked up the lower half of a window to protect him from anyone trying to shoot him from outside. , Petain arrived at the Palais de Justice accompanied by his wife in a convoy of four cars containing police escort's, The authorities, to forestall, demonstrations, concealed, the time of his transfer from the fortress to the court. Marshal Petain’s three counsel, exercising their legal right refused to accept as jurors two Communist ex- x deputies and three members of the Resistance Movement, including two women. WITHDRAWAL FROM SYRIA LONDON, July 22. French troops have begun to evacuate barracks throughout. Syria, and Syrian forces are moving in, reports Reuter’s Damascus correspondent. The process will be completed by the end of .July. The incoming Syrians are exchanging military honours with the outgoing French.