MARSHAL PETAIN
Trial Opens (1 a.m.i LONDON. July 23. Marshal Petain to-day faced his accusers in what promises to be. the most dramatic French trial since that of King Louis XVI. Several hundred police armed wit’} rifles and Tommv-guns last night •turadetl the Palais de Justice, to which Marshal Petain was moved yesterday in preparation for his trial, reports die correspondent of the “Daily Express. Six hundred police were ranged throughout (he trial in seven cordons in and around the building. Workmen laboured through yesterday morning preparing a room in which Marshal Petain will be lodged during th' trial. They bricked up the lower half of the window to protect him from anyone trying to shoot him from outside. _ . . Marshal Petain arrived at the Palais de Justice, accompanied by his wile, in a convoy of four cars containing police escorts. To forestall demonstrations the authorities concealed the time of his transfer from the fortress
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23261, 24 July 1945, Page 5
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