BASTILLE DAY
MARCHES PREVENTED SHOTS FIRED ON CROWDS (10 a.m.) LONDON, July 15. Two women were killed and five others wounded when followers of Jac.ques Doriot, the French Fascist leader, fired on a crowd of 5000 which endeavoured to march in Marseilles in celebration of Bastille Day. Heavy guards prevented the march/ A crowd of 1000 at Lyons also was prevented from marching and some shots were fired. At Vichy, 300 marchers placed a wreath on the Third Republic monument, despite the fact that soldiers were stationed round it.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20837, 16 July 1942, Page 3
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