ANTI-NAZI ACTIVITY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 250, 4 August 1941, Page 6

ANTI-NAZI ACTIVITY.

INCREASE IN OCCUPIED LANDS, ■ V , I . C GERMANS SERIOUSLY WORRIED. If ‘ " , ' , | . LONDON, August 3. ; News reaching London from various sources and areas of German-occu-pied territory in Europe, suggests that the anti-Nazi activities of the people of these countries arc increasing. The vast scale of the war against Russia must have compelled Germany to mobilise the largest forces that are in her power eastern front, and it is considered in London as certain that the German forces in occupied territory must have been reduced to the. limit that the Nazi authorities deemed safe. It is considered doubtful indeed, if Germany possesses manpower sufficiently adequate to police the whole, of occupied-Europe, and at the same time conduct a full-scale war against Russia. | For instance, the news that Marshal List has been sent from the Russian fjront to Athens has confirmed impressions that the Germans are seriously worried about the situation in the Bah leans and that they doubt the ability of tlieir satellites to perform properly the duties of gendarmes in the conquered countries. »; Reports agree that Yugoslavia,

Greece and even Bulgaria are seeuiihg with unrest. The Germans fear that the situation in Bulgaria might get uncomfortable if their failure in Russia, becomes more pronounced. Elsewhere in occupied territories resistance is crystallising. A wave of strikes is sweeping Holland. The Dutch people are successfully prevent jhg the Germans from transporting food from Holland to Germany. A fiumber of. journalists have been arrested and some newspapers have been suspended. Workers in armament factories are reported to have been turn-

ing out faulty arms, and in this connection many arrests have been made. Acts of- sabotage by Belgian workmen are also said to be becoming almost commonplace. * In Denmark the socret police have their hands full in investigating the cutting of surface cables, especially in Jutland. Antipathy toward the Germans is now so pronounce'd that the occupying troops have been heard to complain that their lot is harder than that of their comrades in Poland anti Czechoslovakia, because the people of Denmark are “just like ice.”

I. It is reported that a fight developed between German marines and civilians in the port of Alesund, in Norway, when Norwegians tried to prevent iho deportation of about 70 hostages collected from the city and its environs Who wbfp tOj.be taken away in a guarded steamer at a secret time.

•: The latest issues of the illegal Norwegian “Dot Frif Norge have beenAai'inted and distributed in amazingly large editions and it is reported that no Norwegian newspaper ever-attained a-higher circulation . Ihe newspaper appears regularly and attempts by the Gestapo to stop it have been completely-fruitless. Jn spite of repeated raids on printers in Oslo and observation of persons believed to be connected with “Bet- Frif Norge the newspaper is still appearing uninter\ruptedly. It has an anonymous editoi and collaborators of a high standard An announcement by the. Raich Commissioner for the occupied Norwegian territories that a state of emergency exists throughout Norway, which un der > martial law can be proclaimed over the whole country will, therefore, cause no. surprise. The Stockholm correspondent of the British United Press says the Germans are carrying out invasion tests in Norway. Thousands of civilians havo been evacuated from Stavanger, Haugesund. and other areas and sent inland. Because of the exercises, all coastal shipping has ceased, and ex-

tensive artillery tests are being made. The Germans have arrested 500 U Norwegians for demonstrating in alleged saboteurs. German fears of a possible British invasion of the Continent are revealed in a message to “The Times.” It reports that powerful steel anti-tank barriers in Belgium, which were erected to block the German invasion have been moved to coastal areas in the nopei ol making a British invasion impossible. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Zurich correspondent says revolts have brotfon out among peasants in Yugoslavia. Sabotage is increasing. The Germans shot 480 saboteurs in one day. A state of siege has been declared. Sabotage is also increasing in Poland. Twenty alleged British agents have been inv prisoned in Y 7 ienna. Mr Alfred Thomson, formerly United States Consul in Hamburg, said it is understood saboteurs caused fires which completely burnt out the insides of the liners Bremen and Europa. ---British Official Wireless.