The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-09

WY UyU0x ~ >o10OuUS0 49, wv
y q lie II France under The he
q the esnqueroe.
closed for inventory - and be-
Gauss the ration cards necessary
70 buy many lines were still to
be issued.
Raw material shortages are
great In direct proportion to the
military value Of the product.
Gasoline q completely unavail-
able In most places. Two strange
types Of vehicle have replaced
Paris honking taxis and noisy
trucks. One u the bicycle taxi
"a tandem bicycle hooked onto
an diversified baby carriage. The
other Il IN automobile powered
by "gaxogene," q charcoal and
wood-alcohol mixture. Even %.
transportation facilities are 20
overtaxed that hearses ere MAX
ing community rounds gathering
Z dozen or more dad 1t once.
Coal. theoretically available
at 30 kilosS month, r actually
almost n6A- existent Few h6eels
were able % hest more than one
or two ground floor rooms dur
Ing th9 past winter, one Of The
sevsrest In french history. Dip
lomats In ,Vichy considered
themselves lucky 70 ct two
lukewarm baths . week.
Because the details Of the
armistics have never been pub
lished, no one knows whether
the Germang are Overlapping
its terms. The Bank Of Paris,
evidently By the generous use
Of the printing press, pays %00,-
000,000 francs . day for the
army Of occupation - about
twice it, estimated cost. This
enables the Germans 70 buy
whatever ti,sy fancy, and Ill ~
ports indicato that they are In
vestins In every important bus
tness IN France.
At first e was more couveu.
lent for the Germans % let the
French run their own factories
and then buy the output. Re-
Gently. however, they have TAX.
en- over important factories
(like Citroeu and Rsnault) for
the manufacture Of war mater.
ials.
CORNERSTONE
AND 0BoTApO
Even IN so-colled unoccupied
Francs, The Germans run things
70 suit themselves. Armistice
commissions regulate life In
centers Of any ilnportancs. In
Marseilles, for example, the
commission regulates oil water
and rail traffic, censors both
press and radio. Along the Ital-
ian border, the commissions are
Italian. Returning Rivisra- ites
bemoan the need Of Italian per-
mission TO ell "svsn modest
yachts"
In additiSa 70 these commits
sions there r the Gestapo. Its
efficiency, IN uno c u pi . d
Francs. u StteSted 70 by the dis
appearance q Ill German ma
tionals In the French Foreign
Legion, aftsr IT. recent dissolu-
ton.
TO q man, returning travellers
say that no one In France BE-
lieves any Official news. There
u % much listening 70 the b. b.
G. broadcsets that the Gestapo
resorted q Ne unsuccessful SUBJ
terfuge o. trying to. sell gsd-
gets ito improvc reception OF
foreign broodcastS' In IN effort
10 catch olfsudery.
Such nsws q Trance intsrn-
ally - theyQ b comes Irom .
variety q Underground chan
nsls, Including ''kOe'' nswspe-
pea. Moot @ thooe, like the
now populoe ''pantagruel," OBJ
tain wide eireuIAtico. 6tsno-
0sphers - Many business hous-
9 (witA llt15e business these
dayS) are ~ - type dossu Of
eetboa 49, q ''Psntasrusl"
z @sir 80 tlnas.
0eyuo4 - -oeopegstiou and
IN 4 uD4nfopoup4 ljt9sta,rs,
thsrs b ~ li1l1e roolseapcs n
France oe1nV. ~ 60 thing ~
rsvero6 0DD1lAol Ho>nin ~ 81.
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