VIRTUAL HOSTAGES
AMERICANS IN OCCUPIED FRANCE (U P.A.-By Electric Telegraph-Copyright) Washington, May 18. More than 2000 Americans are held as virtual hostages in occupied France. According to the Slate Department, no Americans have been allowed to leave Paris and the other cities in the past three weeks. Possible motives suggested are, first an effort to conceal troop movements, secondly reprisals for the arrest of German seamen in the United States, and ( thirdly anticipatory hostages in the event of war with the United States.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 19 May 1941, Page 5
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83VIRTUAL HOSTAGES Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 19 May 1941, Page 5
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