REVOLT SPREADS IN EUROPE

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23445, 27 September 1941, Page 9

REVOLT SPREADS IN EUROPE

GUERRILLAS’ ATTACKS IN JUGOSLAVIA THREAT OF UPRISING IN GREECE (Received September 26, 7 p.m.) (U.P.A.) LONDON. September 25. In Jugoslavia, Serb patriots are reported to have engaged in a big battle with Germans and Serb Quisling forces near the Albanian frontier. A feree of 12,000 Serb guerrillas attacked a town and the German commander had to call on General Neaic. the puppet Jugoslav Prime Minister, for support.' German aircraft helped in the fighting, the battle lasting for six hours. Axis sources make no secret of the guerrilla activities in the Balkans. A German spokesman announced that two German battalions had been sent to Jugoslavia to aid General Nedic in suppressing the guerrillas, whose activity is mainly round Sarajevo. along the Sava river and in Bosnia and Croatia. The spokesman said that reports that the Italians had sent a division to quell disorders in Serbia were exaggerated. The “Popolo d'ltalia” states that guerrillas are setting fire to forests in Bosnia and destroying bridges and railway tracks. It describes the Serbs living ' between Zagreb and Sarajevo as 1.500.000 enemies of the regime. A message to Switzerland from Zagreb says that 56.000 Croat workmen, many of whom are miners, have been sent to Germany “because disorders and destruction of transport have decreased the productivity of Bosnian mines." According to reports from Budapest three Croat soldiers and also the former chief of the U- tasha. a terrorist organisation, were killed in a battle with guerrillas. It is also reported that Serb patriots are continuing guerrilla warfare in the Mostar district, where a big band of patriots recently besieged a village. Bitter Feeling in Greece The Istanbul correspondent of “The Times” says that according to information from reliable sources the situation in Greece is unbearable. The brutal behaviour of the Italian and German occupying forces is likely to cause riots and risings. German soldiers went to Eleusis to arrest a hidden British soldier, but the population resisted and a pitched battle ensued. There were numerous casualties on both sides. The Germans shot seven inhabitants as a reprisal. The Germans and Italians compete for graft, selling food cards and other permits to the highest bidder. The discipline of the German troops is very loose and many officers declare it is time for the army to take over from the “madman"’ and make a reasonable peace. The Greek population despises the Quisling Government, and all are now united round the King as the symbol of freedom. The Free Norwegian News Agency reports that more than 2000 of 2339 doctors have resigned from the Nazified Norwegian Medical Association in spite of a decree banning non-mem-bers from public appointments. Conditions in France General von Stuelpnagel. commander of the German forces in France, has offered a reward of £125 for persons helping to capture enemy airmen or aircraft. He threatened death to men assisting enemy air crews and a concentration camp for women. The Lisbon correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” states that a responsible American who spent a year in France on an official mission declared that the elements of resistance in unoccupied France are gathering their forces for action when the right time comes. France is facing winter and a terrible hunger, which the leaders of the resistance believe will reduce the people to desperation and make them realise that nothing can be gained any longer from passiveness. The German spoliation of unoccupied France becomes more and more open each day. The Germans no longer bother to disguise the fact that food and goods are being carried off to Germany. Both Italian and German railway trucks now come alongside the docks at Marseilles to take cargoes from ships. Enormous quantities of wine are going to Germany for the manufacture of commercial alcohol. The Vichy radio staled that a terrific explosion in a Bordeaux alcohol factory caused several million francs’ worth of damage. All the tanks blew up and part of the buildings crumbled. The Moscow radio reports that a tremendous explosion at a Czechoslovak munition works killed and wounded hundreds of imported German workers. Nine hundred were sent to hospital. Another explosion destroyed most of the electric power station. A Czech who was executed for railway sabotage was the third sentenced to death in 24 hours. A wave of strikes is sweeping Belgium. In one area 125,000 workers struck. The production cf the coal mines has decreased 36 per cent., although more workers than ever are engaged. COLT PLANNED IN ARGENTINA “ALL DANGER NOW OVER ” (Received September 26, 7 p.m.) NEW YORK. September 25. The Argentinian Government has announced that all danger of a coup d’etat is over, says the Buenos Aires correspondent of the Associated Press of America. The Acting-President ( Dr. Castillo) asserts that absolute calm prevails, but the authorities have not yet found 34 cases cf ammunition, the disappearance of which gave the first clue of the conspiracy. ATTACK ON CONVOY GERMANS CLAIM BIG SUCCESS (Received September 26. 7 p.m.) LONDON. September 25. According to an official statement in Berlin. U-boats destroyed an enemy convoy of 11 ships, totalling 78.000 tons, off the east coast of Africa. The convoy was sailing to England. JAPANESE SHIPPING PLANS (Received September 26. 11 p.m.) LONDON, September 26. The Japanese Government is considering the restoration of shipping services across the Pacific to Hawaii. CANADIANU.S. UNION FORECAST BY PREMIER OF ONTARIO TORONTO, September 25.. Ontario’s Premier (Mr M. F. Hepburn). in an address at a luncheon in his honour, forecast the eventual elimination of the United States-Canadian boundary. “Our interests are too closely allied to permit of a boundary,” he said.