Extreme Tension Continues in Paris
GERMANS GETTING BEHIND BARBED WIRE Received Wednesday, 8.5 p.m. LONDON, Mar. 10. Extreme tension continues in Paris. The Germans have barricaded many streets all hitherto unprotected, says Reuter’B correspondent on the French frontier. Barracks and officers’ canteens have been protected with barbed wire and sandbags. Two regiments of Waffen Storm Troops arrived in Paris during the week-end. it is estimated that 600 German tanks are stationed in the Paris district. The Vichy radio asserts that socalled de Gaullist Communist agents are busy in the former occupied zone recruiting combatants in the name of the French Legion of Combatants. The German-controlled Paris radio broadcast a police communique giving a last chance to persons aged 24 to 26 to register for compulsory labour. Delinquents will suffer severe penalties. The Daily Mail’s Madrid correspondent says 75 per cent, of France’s industries are now engaged in war work for Germany. Some armament factories are working three shifts daily.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 59, 11 March 1943, Page 5
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