KILLINGS IN FRANCE
LONDON, Dec. 22. The "Evening Standard's” Lisbon correspondent states: Nearly 1000 Germans and pro-Nazi officials in France have been assassinated in the last four months. The list includes 230 gendarmes, 147 guards, 152 police agents, 30 Vichy militiamen, and 150 civilians.. Many were either shot or knifed, and others were garrotted. The French newspapers have published a full list of the victims, and also report that 900 bombs have damaged ships, factories and other installations.. More than 150 town halls have been attacked and robbed, ’B6 farm houses destroveu and 3714 haystacks set ° n fire.” There have been 600 /derailments or attempts to wreck railways. It is reported that imminence of a second front increased the daring of saboteurs. Lawlessness is sweeping all districts of France, despite all efforts by the Germans, and the Vichy militia to check it.
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Grey River Argus, 24 December 1943, Page 4
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