Show 20 More French rent h Hostages Shot Shotor Shote For or British St. St t. t Nazaire azal re Raid al e VICHY France April 21 UP German UP-German German military authorities authorities authorities ties have executed 20 more French hostages at St. St Nazaire in inI I reprisal for the re recent ent British commando do raid on the important submarine base ase there it was made known Tuesday I News of the executions was received received received re re- here shortly after Chief of Government Pierre Laval left suddenly suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly for Paris at 5 a. a m. m to contact contact con- con tact act the Germans on his collaborationist collaborationist program Thirty hostages had been shot at Rouen Monday in revenge for forthe forthe the he derailing of a German troop train in which 44 German soldiers were killed The hostages completely innocent innocent innocent inno inno- cent of the bombing were taken from a concentration camp at which Free French sympathizers and alleged communists were held London reported that the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans intended to shoot 80 more i innocent French patriots Thursday Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day unless those responsible forthe for forthe forthe the train wreck were arrested Thirty-five Thirty hostages had been shot at Calais at-Calais Calais last week and thus I the total of new killings in a German German German Ger Ger- man repression campaign was brought to 85 with 80 more facIng facing facing fac fac- ing death In their St St. Nazaire killings the Germans ordered the sub pre feet to choose 20 of his fellow townsmen to face a German Gennan firing squad He refused so the Germans picked their victims themselves including a prominent labor leader named Blanchard |