Evening star., 1941-12-28
committing a capital offense pun
iShable by death.
Agrees to Operate.

committing a capital offense pun
ishable by death.
Agrees to Operate.
The admiral insisted that the doc
tors obey their oath to care for the
sick. ST. PierreS sole surgeon agreed
to operate III emergencies and the
other doctor agreed to take over the
surgeons duties at the hospital.
The surgeon was marched off to
the admiral's flagship under mill
tary arrest. The other doctor COM
planned he feared being inSulted and
threatened by Free French sup
porters and insisted on having a
guard to protect him during his
nocturnal rounds. The admiral gave
him written order authorizing
him to call on the police for body
guard at any time he saw Mt. One
of the Free French naval doctors
will serve temporarily. Several Amer
lean women doctors have volun-
teered their services TO Free France,
and the admiral's staff is wiring
Free French representatives in
Washington to send TWO here i'm
mediately. There are several ma
ternity cases IN the hospital
requiring attention and other i'll
ones. none on the critical list.
All Petain supporters here, and
this reporter has by now got around
to a majority of them, We're agreed
that the plebiscite had been held
fairly and without any official pres
sure or ballot box hocus pocus. They
objected only to the fact that the
two questions asked did not allow
them to vote for Petain but forced
them TO choose between Hitler and
the democracies.
Asked how they had voted. each
said he had scratched out the two
alternatives which meant that his
ballot was voided by the officials.
Thus far with Miquelon's l40 votes
vet TO be cast there have been LAB
voided ballots plus 10 for collabora-
ton. but not more than 60 per cent
of these can be counted as for Pc
tain since some ballots were left
blank by illiterateS who could not
read the printed questions and be-
lieved they could register their votes
simply by dropping them into the
ballot box while other ballots were
voided because more than one was
folded together
Trying to Avoid Incidents.
The new Free French regime here
has been concentrating thus far on
avoiding any kind of incident 1t is
plain that all incident would play
into Vichy's hands and would en-
, able the AXIS to stain the Free
French with some Of its own mur-
Gerous tar.
Vichy propaganda had one other
sad result today. Admiral Muselier
/ happened to be listening to the
radio in a home here when Vichy
broadcast a report that he had
ordered Baron de Bournat. former
governor of the islands. and Bishop
Poisson. leader of the churches here.
shot. The admiral hung his head
at this bit and explained with tears
in his eyes that his favorite grand
child, of whom he talks frequently
and whose photograph he carries in
his pocket. was in unoccupied France
and might hear the same report
about her grandfather.
/ Bishop Poisson. who celebrated
midnight mass attended by Admiral
Muselier and many of the Free
French forces has not been inter-
rupted in his duties in any way.
The baron was transferred today
from the governors house to the
admirals flagship, where he is being
held. When his wife, German,
married once before to German,
requested permission to share her
husbands cabin. it was granted.