All alien Jews between 18 and 55 years of age were arrested yesterday in Clermond-Ferrand, in the formerly unoccupied part of France, where Pierre Laval’s home is located and where his newspaper, “Le Moniteur” is published, and transported to a labor camp, it was reported today over the Nazi-controlled Oslo radio station. Similar arrests will be made in other French towns, the broadcast stated in a report from Vichy.
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