PARIS FOOD RIOTING
HIGH PRICES & SCARCITY THREATS TO COMMUNISTS (Reed. Aug. 18, 2.10 p.m.) LONDON, Aug: 17. Private messages from Lyons say that the recent disturbances in France v/ere not attributable to Communists, but to hungry people who were demonstrating in the market places against the food scarcity and rising prices. N The Times’ correspondent at Geneva, in reporting this, says that General Stulpnagel, commander of the German forces of occupation, warned the population that anyone supporting communism is liable to the death penalty, and anyone who possessed tracts in German and did not hand them to the police, was liable to 15 years’ hard labour. The Vichy correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain states that the German and French police have arrested the wives of the •former Communist deputies, M.M. Gaston Midol, Pierre Benoist and Kethellier for possessing Communist tracts. The correspondent adds that hostility to the “national revolution” led to the removal of a number of mayors and councillors.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20638, 19 August 1941, Page 9
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