BRITONS IN PARIS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 33, 8 January 1941, Page 2

BRITONS IN PARIS.

DRAW £lO MONTHLY,

There are 600 British citizens still living in Paris and drawing £lO monthly through the American Embassy there, according to information reaching London recently. They include a variety of people, from British officers and soldiers’ dependants to retired couples who previously lived on private incomes, but now find their balances in French banks blocked by the German authorities. < In the South of France there are still between, 3000 and 4000 Britons living in widely scattered areas who are also receiving this grant. The money is paid at the current doliar-franc rate, which is now more favourable than just before the collapse of France. The expense is. borne by the British Foreign Office, which deposited a substantial sterling sum in Washington^ A British soldier who enlisted in Paris, and is now in London, having been evacuated from Dunkirk, said: , “1 have only received two short mes- | sages from my wife in Paris. The first was in August, and stated simply, ‘AH well, still living same place.’ The next simply said, ‘Everyone all right, do not worry.’ ” The War Office will pay the allowances to British soldiers’ dependants in Paris, irrespective of the Foreign Office monthly grant, as soon as arrangements can be made for this money to be forwarded through neut-j ral channels. i