FRENCH LOSSES
REVIEW BY PARIS. RADIO (Rec. 1.30 p.m.) London, April 14. About 9000 bomb outrages have been committed in France in the last three months, stated Paris radio. There have also been 800 attacks against convoys and railways, 150 against town halls, 3550 granaries set on fire and 905 persons killed, including 750 policemen. The radio’s political commentator who revealed these figures, added: “Nothing remains of the French army, totalling 100,000 at the armistice, colonial forces totalling 150.000 or 700.000 tons of naval shipping. France to day has 65.000 tons of merchant shipping compared with over 2.000.000 tons at the armistice. Fifteen thousand of the 65.000 tons are in Indo-China. 1.135.000 tons have been either sunk, seized or blockaded in neutral ports. At least 15.000 people have been killed in air raids since the armistice. 20.000 have been injured, 200,000 rendered homeless. 60 towns heavily hit, and 500,000 houses and public buildings destroyed.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 15 April 1944, Page 2
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