ESCAPEES TO BE SHOT
FRENCH WORKERS FOR GERMANY PRECAUTIONS AGAINST UNREST London, Oct. 20. French authorities have threatened to shoot workers from the Paris Gnomerhone aeroplane engine works who are selected for transfer to Germany if they try to escape, reports the French frontier correspondent of the "Daily Mail.” The police have taken special precautions against growing unrest. The Lyons strikers returned to work but it is understood they will strike again if Laval persists in the conscription of labour for Germany. Berlin radio says Communist leaflets were distributed among Lyons strikers urging them to declare a general strike, but measures were taken to nip in the bud every attempt to cease work. The radio adds that recent similar strike movements instigated by Communist and De Gaullist propaganda as a protest against the dispatch of French workers to Germany were absolutely ineffective. —P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 22 October 1942, Page 5
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143ESCAPEES TO BE SHOT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 22 October 1942, Page 5
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