TRIAL OF COMMUNISTS
FORMER FRENCH DEPUTIES EFFORT TO REORGANISE PARTY PARIS, Mar. 20. ' The trial has opened of 44 Communist ex-Deputies on charges of illegally attempting to reorganise the Communist Party. .Nine of them, who have either fled from France or are in hiding, will later be tried for high treason. Six soldiers with fixed bayonets guarded the dais on which sat seven uniformed judges and seven assistants. The trial is proceeding. M.Sarraut, in the Senate, revealed the completenesss of the anti-Com-munist drive. He said more than 3400 Communist leaders had been arrested and 2778 holding official positions had been dismissed. Two papers and 159 publications were suppressed. 620 unions and 675 political groups were dissolved, 8000 search warrants had been issued, and 8000 penalties ordered. He added that German planes had been dropping Communist propaganda over France. Communistic broadcasters were sending out German propaganda. •:.■;•->
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24254, 23 March 1940, Page 10
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