DEATH SENTENCE.
DE GAULLE’S “CRIMES.” Received August 3. 10.10 a.m. CLERMONT-FERRAND (France), Aug. 2. The Military Court has condemned General de Gaulle, the leader of the “free” French forces, to death and military degradation for treason attacks against the State, and desertion to a foreign country. NEWS FOII FRENCHMEN. The London office of the Havas News Agency severed connection with the French organisation, which has turned pro-Petain. The London service is now supporting General de Gaulle and has been renamed the Agence Lef (Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite). The agency hopes to become one of the principal means of getting out of France reliable information on the course of events there, also to become a primary, independent source of reliable news for free Frenchmen throughout the world. (From Daventry.) General de Gaulle’s comment on the death sentence was: “1 shall have a settlement of accounts with the men of Vichy after victory.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 210, 3 August 1940, Page 7
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