HOLLAND'S PATRIOTS HOODWINK NAZIS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 241, 12 October 1942, Page 4

HOLLAND'S PATRIOTS HOODWINK NAZIS

NEWSPAPER PRINTED

Circulation HO,OOO Copies Weekly

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P"' 1 ('.ipl.iin lull ('orncli. Ifnr riks. editor of ihc anti \az 'inch iimlci u'l iuind iicw.-papei \ on, I . ( „ ;i| .,|, . arrived il •N' W i ork ■«l r<• i■ apin- from Hoi land, say-; thn I'mted He t olci reporters how the Dutch Under

L.'| ounrl Pre--; w ;Ipublished. We not. only have the Gestapo to fear aUo 'he Dutch Nazi." lie said.' If we tool thctu. i l*i o til hers are easy. The printers of «>fTi<ial Geruinn piopaganda also print VoorwanrN in upon shop, hut the Germans iln not. know it.

\'mii v. a.irl ; was |i| s| published 21 months ago, and has heen regularly 1 surd weekly since then. All the printers are carjffully-stJU'd members of the anti-Nazi party. For one i-siio newinnl was not available, lnif. flnallv the* underground workers bought, the tinest newsprint from 'on upt. Nazi oflicials. The editors i elrhrated the occasion by sending two copies of that issue to the German commissioner. Se.vs;s Inquart.

"The I mlerground Press publishes news gathered mostly by word of riiouth, also excerpts from Allied broadcasts. It further exhorts the workers to slow down and encour- • iRt'H sabotage. Tile size of Voorwaarts is eight to 10 pages anti the ' irculation 00 000 dangerously c'istrihuted by trucks, trams. bicycles and even maii.

"Once the circulation department used a typewriter for addressing mailed copies, whereupon the Gestapo searched every typewriter in ilie town and eventually found a machine that matched the typewriting. They shot the owner. It happened that the machine belonged to a Dutch Nazi, from whom we borrowed it while he was off prying into our affairs," Captain Hendriks dryly concluded.