The Vichy government is preparing a law which would prohibit Jews of any nationality from using railways or any other means of transportation, the Nazi-controlled Paris radio reported today.
Fighting French headquarters in London announced last night that programs against Jews are being incited and encouraged in the interior of North Africa by French officials who are known to be followers of the Vichy regime but who have not yet been dismissed from their positions. At the same time, the newspaper “France” published here, commenting today on the appointment of Marcel Peyrouton to the post of Governor General of Algeria, pointed out that Peyrouton was the first official to introduce anti-Jewish measures in France when he was Minister of Interior in the Vichy cabinet.
A Jewish refugee who reached London today from North Africa after many months residence there, reported that many Jews from Libya found refuge in various cities in Algeria prior to the landing of the American forces. They now hope to return to their homes as soon as it is possible to travel from Algeria to British-held Libyan territory.
The London News-Chronicle today said that “not a single of our friends working on the Trans-Sahara railway has been released.”
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