BELGIAN SABOTEURS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 11, 14 January 1943, Page 5

BELGIAN SABOTEURS

Planes Destroyed In German Repair Shop NAZI THREATS TO ANTWERP British Official Wireless Rec. 10.30 a.m. RUGBY, Jan. 13. Twenty-three aircraft engines have been destroyed by saboteurs in a German repair shop at Courcelles, in Belgium, according to the Belgian news agency in London. A grenade was also placed by saboteurs during the night in the entrance of the offices of Agra—-Friends of Greater Germany—at Herstal, near Liege. It exploded and destroyed the front of the building. The German military commander at Antwerp has now offered a reward of £100 to any person furnishing the authorities with information leading to the arrest of three unknown persons who were involved in an attack at Antwerp on a German soldier who was robbed ol a bag containing documents, since then revolver shots have been fired at two German railway workers m Antwerp, one of whom was wounded. The curfew, imposed by the Germans, has been advanced half an hour and it threatened, according to ah agency report, that turther leprisals will follow. ( The Belgian news agency m London reports that the 1000 Belgian iudges and magistrates who went on strike on December 23 resumed CoUrt work after the Germans agreed to release the magistrates Who had been arrested. The Germans further agreed to form a commission to conflfflef bringing the degrees to which the iudiciary objected into conformitv with Belnian constitutional law. German-controlled Scandinavian news agency reports 184 nersone haVe been arrested in Sofia and 116 placed in concentration camp. •