BLACK MARKET DEALING
RESISTANCE LEADERS ACQUITTED
PARIS, Mar. 25. A military tribunal acquitted 25 French resistance leaders who were charged with complicity in black market deals in motor fuel. It was alleged that they supplied three French resistance newspapers with 90,000 litres of fuel obtained from American deserters. The defence pleaded that, as the Government had no fuel, the black market was the only meax-s by which the resistance press could distribute papers to counteract fmn- years of poisonous German propaganda. The chief prosecutor then called for an acquittal, stating that there was no fraudulent intention.
Leonide Maklakoff, a great-grandson of the famous Russian author, Count Leo Tolstoy, was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment with hard labour at Arras for favouring German undertakings while acting as interpreter at Pas de Calais. Maklakoff enlisted inthe Foreign Legion in 1920.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25804, 27 March 1945, Page 6
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