CHAOS IN FRANCE.
PETAIN REGIME’S PREDICAMENT. BANNED PROM PARIS. (From Daventry.) Reports have reached London from the Swiss correspondent of the United Press Agency to the effect that riots have broken out in occupied France. Conditions are said to be chaotic. The railway services are disorganised. The Germans are reported to be sending to France families from Western Germany who have suffered in the air raids. Marshal Petain spoke last night to the nation, referring to the spread of famine, which threatened occupied France. Ho admitted that the Germans would not accede to the request of his Government to return to Paris, and admitted that he shared the feeling of the people that Paris was the vital place from which the administration should be carried out. Marshal Petain disclosed that on August 7. the Germans had informed him that, for material reasons, they could not authorise the transfer of the seat of government from Vichy to Paris. They indicated that they demanded the control of all the ports in unoccupied France, including Marseilles and Toulon, and also the Swiss frontier.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 219, 14 August 1940, Page 7
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180CHAOS IN FRANCE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 219, 14 August 1940, Page 7
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