ACTS OF SABOTAGE IN BELGIUM
INDUSTRIAL PLANT DAMAGED (8.0. W.) RUGBY, Sept. 15. Reports of a series of acts of sabotage In the Belgian provinces of Hainault holding up production in industries requisitioned by the Germans have reached th: Belgian Government in London. Work was brought to a complete standstill in the iron works and rolling mill at Jemappes, near Mons, following the destruction of an electrical substation. Work in several collieries at Tribjeres was brought to a standstill through the destruction of electric cables. Work was also stopped in the Charleroi Nord mines and an electrical sub-station at the big industrial works at Soudeng was destroyed in an explosion. A Stockholm report says the Germans executed 10 Poles and seven Czechs for violating the laws applying to Poles, and for alleged treasonable activity in Czechoslovakia.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23745, 17 September 1942, Page 6
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