FRENCH WARNED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 238, 8 October 1942, Page 5

FRENCH WARNED

AMERICAN BOMBING

Evacuate Places Where Work Is Done For Nazis Rec. 10.30 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 7. The B.R.C. to-day relayed a warning from the United States to the French people to cvacuate places where work was being done for the Germans, because of the increasing American raids against France. "The bombs which fall on France are not aimed at the French but exclusively against the Nazis and against all that is done in occupied zones of France for the sake of Germany," the announcer said. "Plants working for Germany, railway establishments. shipyards. I'-boat bases, antiaircraft and artillery emplacements are targets for bombs from American planes." The Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyheter reports that 1,200,000 German children were evacuated in 17.000 special trains in the last two vears from districts dangerously exposed to British bombing, 7000 leaders of the Hitler Youth Movement and 3500 school teachers caring for the evacuees. Pester Lloyd, from Budapest, reports that a branch of the Krupp armament works has been registered at. Zagreb. This is symptomatic of the German policy of transferring industry to areas more out of reach of the RA F. Twentv people were injured, two fatallv, when a bomb was thrown in a Paris cinema house where Doriot's pro-German People's party was holding an anti-Jewish rally, says the Vichy radio. Nazi Demands on Denmark German demands on Denmark, which are believed to have led to the present tension, arc: First, the construction of a military highway through Jutland; second, more drastic measures against sabotage; third, German control of the Danish police and. fourth, that German officials shall hold key positions in the Ministry of Justice. The demands were submitted when the German Minister. RentheFink. returned to Copenhagen after a visit to Berlin in September. King Christian flatly turned down a further demand for anti-Jewish legislation. On the contrary, he attended a special celebration at a Copenhagen synagogue, thus greatly annoying the Germans.

One of the causes of Germany's dissatisfaction with the position in Denmark is said to be the lack of response to the appeal for volunteers to fight against Russia.

The Danes are waiting tensely to see whether the Danish Nazi Free Corps will return to the Russian front on October 12. when its leave ends. It is believed that the corps may be employed in establishing a political regime similar to that in Norway. That country, like Denmark. has been singled out for incorporation in the Germanic Federation.

The departure of the corps on October 12 will be interpreted as meaning that, the hour has not yet arrived for the Danish Nazi leader. Clausen, to act. However, neutral opinion in Stockholm is that Hitler considers the time has come for the creation of a Germanic Federation as a nucleus of a new Europe.

According to evidence received in London the Germans arranged the return to Denmark of the Free Corps knowing it would be resented and with the plan to use the resentment as an excuse for further repressive measures.

The Berlin radio, referring to the bomb explosion in the cinema, said this was the third attack within a week against a meeting of Doriot's party. Doriot. at the funeral of one victim, vowed that no victim would be unavenged.