FRANCE AROUSED
BRUTALITY TO JEWS SUPPORT FOR CHURCHES fN.Z. Press Association.—Copyright.) (Roe. 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 25. The entire country is ranging behind the Churches’ condemnation of the inhuman treatment of Jews, according to reports reaching Lisbon from Occupied France. Travellers reveal that the Archbishop of Toulouse was threatened with death if he allowed a recent pastoral letter to be read in his churches. The Archbishop replied: “I am so old that it does not matter if I dih.”
A goods train arrived in Toulouse in Which 45 women and children were packed into each wagon from 5 a. lll. until 2 p.m. Protests were made and permission sought to allow the women and children to leave the coaches for at least a few minutes, but this was refused.
Eye-witnesses state that they watched armed men hunt Jews in the fields as though they were rabbits.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 255, 26 September 1942, Page 5
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