Evening star., 1942-07-14
De GauIIists Celebrate
Basti||e Day as New
Fighting French
Thousands of Britons
Break Police Lines to
Join in Festivities
RS the Associated Press


Join in Festivities
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 14-The Free
French followers of Gen. Charles de
Gaulle, hardened by two years of
exile from their Nazi-stricken home
land, celebrated Bastile day today
under new name, the Fighting
French" and rededicated themselves
to the expulsion of the Germans
from France and the restoration of
liberty, equality and fraternity"
The new official name of the
De Gaulle movement, accepted by
the British Foreign Office, is La
France ombattante-F 6 h t i n G
France.
Britons turned out in cheering
thousands, breaking police lines, to
JOIN the Fighting French in spon-
taneous celebration which enthusi-
astically reaffirmed the common
cause of the British and the De
Gaullists.
United States Officials on Hand.
The days observances were capped
with a colorful review at wellington
Barracks, where newly organized
Fighting French Commandos, Alpine
Chasseurs, French naval, air and
women's auxiliary units saluted De
Gaulle.
While 1t. Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hover, United States commander
for the European theater; Admiral
Harold r. Stark, commander of
United States naval forces in Euro
pean waters, and Brig. Gen. Charles
L. Bolte, United States military
representative to the fighting
French committee, watched, Gen. De
Gaulle and Rear Admiral Philippe
Marie Auboyneau, his naval chief,
pinned medals on 36 French war
heroes.
For the third time Frenchmen In
Occupied France spent the national
holiday in the grip of the German
secret police and the German Army.
In 1910 the shock of the French
collapse had left the people stunned
and mournful. In 1941, after year
of German occupation, there was no
taste for a celebration of blessings
which the Germans had ruthlessly
suppressed, but opposition to the
Germans was rising and acts of
sabotage were on the increase.
Sabotage on Increase.
Today, the people of Occupied
France marked the anniversary of
the storming of the Bastille in 1889
under a new, harsh ruling of the
Gestapo, which has announced that
male relatives of saboteurs who do.
not surrender within 10 days would
be executed.
Bot still the sabotage and the op-
position grew. A freight train was
reported derailed on the Amiens-
Sotteville line A Frenchman was
killed and a bystander wounded in
a pitched battle with French and
German police at Houdin in the Pas
de Calais department.
To check sabotage. not only in
Northern France, but in the con-
quered lands of Belgium and the
Netherlands, the Germans were re-
ported to have seized hostages.
A report from Stockholm, based
on Berlin dispatches, said a large
of hostages had been seized
in Belgium and Northern France.
The Dutch radio announced hos
tages had been taken in Holland
with the German warning that they
will suffer whenever sabotage is
committed"
Celebration Banned.
All celebration of Bastille Day in
Occupied France was banned. Even
the flying of flags and the wearing
of emblems was prohibited by the
Germans.
But Frenchmen who could get
near a radio last night heard Gen.
de Gaulle in London saying that
France is making ready for the
day when the entire nation will
rise to drive out and punish the
enemy"
The Fighting French" leader
called on Frenchmen in unoccu-
pied France to fly the tricolor and
sing the national anthem, but did
not encourage demonstrations in
the occupied part of the country
because of the dangers involved.
AS bitterness and violence grew
in Occupied France, Marcel Deaf
editor and enthusiastic proponent
of collaboration with the Axis,
warned the prime collaboration of
France:
Watch out, Pierre Laval" he said
ITO the right and left, behind and
everywhere-they are there sur
rounding you. Pierre Laval, you are
terribly alone"
Hirohito Sends Congratulations.
TOXIC From Japanese Broad
casts, July IA (Pp.-Emperor Hiro-
hito today sent congratulations to
Marshal Petain on the occasion OF
Bastille Day.
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