NAZI ORDER REVERSED.
FRENCH TROOPS IMPRISONED. RELATIONS MORE STRAINED. LONDON, Aug. 2. The Daily Mail says that demobilised French soldiers who have returned to their homes in occupied France have been put in concentration camps as “prisoners of war,” following a sudden new order issued by the German military officers which completely cancels the previous arrangements for the repatriation of refugees between the occupied and unoccupied zones. The newspaper adds that it is increasingly clear that the relations between the Petain Government and the German authorities are steadily becoming worse. HUGE WAR DAMAGE. The French radio states that the Minister of Finance (M. Boutillier) estimates the war damage in France at £800,000,000. .The Moscow radio says the Germans have taken the entire wheat and sugarbeet crops of Northern France. A message from Vichy says that the French Government has dismissed MMassigli (Ambassador to Turkey), M. Thierry (Ambassador to Rumania) and M. Brugere (Minister to Yugoslavia). No successors are named. M. Jean Paul-Boncour has been appointed Counsellor to the Embassy in China.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 210, 3 August 1940, Page 7
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171NAZI ORDER REVERSED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 210, 3 August 1940, Page 7
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