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Show Two Million Frenchmen Killed or Died in War LONDON. Metropolitan France is deep in the war, despite occupation occupa-tion and subjection by the Nazis, as far as casualties are concerned. Of- i ficial figures disclosed paint a terrible ter-rible picture of French sufferings. During the six-week Battle of France, which ended with an armistice armis-tice on June 24, 1940, 120,000 Frenchmen French-men were killed, slightly more than that number wounded. The figures were issued by the Pelain government govern-ment in Vichy. But, from that June day when the so-called armistice was signed the war for France was over, ostensibly. France was conquered and subdued or at least so thought the German victors. Only from that date, however, began be-gan France's real war a draining, exhausting fight against privation, oppression and even the tyranny within the nation's own gates. The figures released give a clue to the intensity of that fight, the one that has gone on without intermission inter-mission for 3 years. Two million persons have been killed or died as a direct result of the war since June, 1940. |