Bey Of Tunis Deposed

Northern Advocate, 18 May 1943, Page 3

Bey Of Tunis Deposed

LONDON, May 16. General Giraud’s administration is forming special courts to try locals accused of collaborating with the Germans and Italians in Tunisia, says the “Daily Mail’s” Algiers correspondent. Italians’ property will be frozen to prevent owners selling or removing it. This property, in certain cases, may be used to reimburse people whose belongings were looted by the enemy. Arabs proved guilty of looting will be severely punished. The Germans paid Arabs fantastically high prices for foodstuffs and other goods, using French banknotes looted from France. Arabs could be seen gambling in the streets with wads of 100 franc notes. Political suspects detained in Algeria include only French persons and 808 foreigners, of whom 553 are Italians and the remainder enemy collaborators arrested after the Allied landing in North Africa.