GUERRILLAS AND SABOTEURS

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23478, 5 November 1941, Page 7

GUERRILLAS AND SABOTEURS

Activities Continue In Europe JUGOSLAVS SEIZE TOWN (Received November 4, 11 p.m.) (U.P.A.) LONDON, November 4. The Moscow radio says that Jugoslav guerrillas have captured Valjeyo. a town 50 miles south-west of Belgrade. They took prisoner 700 German officers and men. German divebombers failed to break their hold on the town.

Guerrillas are also active in the Drina region, where about 30,000 are hiding in the mountains. Many Germans are killed each day. The Belgrade radio says it is authoritatively learned that 100 Communists and Jews have been shot as a reprisal for an attack on a German soldier.

A message from Ankara says that according • to well-informed sources, Axis persecution of the Jugoslavs has reached a new phase. It is stated that four bishops and 100 priests of the Orthodox Church in Croatia have been murdered. It is also stated that Hungarians have hanged a number of priests. , The Serbs’ fesistance continues, although to October 1, about 340,000 had been killed. One of the worst aspects of the invaders’ policy of extermination of the Serb' element in' Jugoslavia is the systematic persecution of the Serb Orthodox Church, says the Istanbul correspondent of “The Times.” Thousands of Serb prelates and priests have been tortured and killed. Priests in regions occupied by the Italians, Croatians and Hungarians have been almost entirely exterminated. The facts of the persecution are being officially circulated to the Christian Church throughout the world. Tunnel Blown Up The Independent French News Agency says that saboteurs have blown up the longest tunnel on the Italian side of the Brenner Pass. Reoairs are being pushed on with feverish haste. A Vichy message reports that 20 persons were killed and 48 injured when five coaches were derailed and overturned as a train was entering the Austerlitz station in Paris. Another train accident in the Cherbourg district, caused at least 16 serious casualties. Free French headquarters in London say that t’ usands of young Frenchmen are escaping into unoccupied France. All support the Free French, and they hope to inflame feeling m the unoccupied zone against the Germans. All Brittany is in favour of Free France. The Free Norwegian News Agency says that a German military court has sentenced, to death six Norwegians on charces of assisting the enemy. The Germans are restricting coastal shipping with the object of stooping the constant escapes to Britain. Small boats have been forbidden to go to sea during darkness.