VICHY--Two hundred of the most prominent American expatriates in Paris have been seized by the Germans and carried off to crude wooden barracks in the Compiegne Forest to be held as hostages for the good treatment of German nationals in the United States, it was learned tonight.
The hostages apparently were handpicked because they included most of the best known expatriates--prominent doctors and denfists, many of them from the American hospital at Neuilly which continues to function as an American institution.
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