FRANCES WAR DAMAGE

Grey River Argus, 3 August 1940, Page 8

FRANCES WAR DAMAGE

£BOO MILLIONS r Diplomatic Changes LAus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received Aug. 2, 7.50 p.m ) LONDON, August 2. The French radio states that. M. E< utillier. the French Minister' of Finance, estimates the war damage in France at eight hundred million sterling. VICHY, August 2. The French Government has dismissed three of the French Ambassadors. They are: M. Massigli, Ambassador to Turkey; M. Thierry, Ambassador to Rourhania; and M. Brugere, Minister to Jugoslavia. No successors have been named M. Jean Paul Boncour has been appointed Counsellor to the Frencn Embassy to China. PETAIN GOVERNMENT. REPORTED AT VARIANCE WITH NAZIS. LONDON, August 2. The “Daily Mail” states: It is becoming increasingly clear that relations between President Petain ? Government and the German authorities are steadily becoming worse. The “Daily Mail” says that derooboiised French soldiers have returned to their homes in occupied France, tut are in concentration camps as “prisoners of war” following a sudden new order by -German military oilicers, completely cancelling the previous arrangements for the repatriation of refugees as between the occupied and the unoccupied zones. REPORTED TAKING OF CROPS LONDON, August 2. The Moscow radio says that the Germans have taken in Northern France the entire wheat and sugar beet crops.