The Archive · 1941

Majority of Russians Liberated By French

Vichy, July 9.

The French Government yesterday announced that out of 10,707 Russians arrested since the severance of diplomatic relations ' with Moscow, 10,003 have been liberated, 367 have been jailed or interned in concentration camps, 81 have been assigned to forced residence and 256 were still being investigated.

Marseilles, Papis, Lyons and the Riviera were fe chief centres of the "purge," and the Government yesterday announced that as a result of the move, the Russians no longer constitute a danger to national security.—United Press.

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