The Archive · 1941

Severe Restrictions

Bucharest, Feb, 2.

Summary execution for all persons found in possession of unauthorized firearms has been ordered by the Rumanian dictator, Gen, Jon Antone He has also instructed the army to treat any new attempts at revolt with the utmost severity and to fire on unauthorized gatherings not responding immediately to the challenge, Tt is explained that Gen. Antonescu had previously ordered that rebels taken with arms should not be executed but that this "generosity a pears to have been misunderstood, Gigantic explosions in French ports could be heard on the coast here, but heavy haze prevented observers from determining the exact location of the bombings.

The British bombers, in some cases escorted by fighter planes, crossed the coast here for hours on the way to France, Scores of heavy bombs were unloaded over French ports opposite Folkestone,

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