GERMAN DEMANDS

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 187, 6 May 1941, Page 7

GERMAN DEMANDS

French Integration In

New Order ALTERNATIVE THREAT (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received May 5, 9 p.m.) ■ LONDON, May 5. The Vichy correspondent of the British United Press states that the Vice-Premier, Admiral Darlan, has returned from Paris and reported to Marshal Petain on his conversations with the German Ambassador, Herr Abetz. It is understood that Herr Abetz threatened that if France refuses to accept full integration in the new order Germany will retain in Nazi prison camps 500,000 French farmers needed to restore France’s food supply.

WOMEN OF BRITAIN

Tribute By Mr. Menzies COURAGE AND ENDURANCE (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 4. The Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, is expected to arrive in America tomorrow night. Before leaving Britain he recorded some of his impressions, and he said that among the people and things that impressed him most were:

Mr. Winston Churchill, the resolute and supreme British fighting spirit, the craft of the Royal Air Force, the boys in blue uniforms flying among the clouds or groping in the dark for the invading bombers, the factories with their wounded roofs and walls and battered homes around them roaring out their busy answer to the enemy, but above all the courage, the action -and the endurance of the British women.

“They are among the great soldiers of this war,” he said. “Is it possible to believe that not long ago we called them the weaker sex? When this war came with all its stupendous demands on man-power what did we find? Women conducting vast organizations; women in the uniform of the Navy, Army, or Air Force; women at the fire brigade stations in blue overalls, always ready: women driving great vehicles; women digging in the fields; women wielding hammers and riveters in factories; women at the gentle work of nursing sick soldiers; women working in hospitals in the middle of air raids; women doing their turn of fire watching in their own suburban streets as incendiary bombs rain; and last, but not least, that forgotten but splendid woman, the housewife, who copes with rationing. “The vast movement of women into the service cf the nation, doing these things and a hundred others, is spectacular. It marks the beginning of a new era.”

SEIZED BY NAZIS

Orthodox Patriarch In Yugoslavia

(British Official Wireless.) (Received May 5, 7.50 p.m.) RUGBY, May 4.

Broadcasting from London in the Serbo-Croat language, a Yugoslav diplomat voiced the world-wide indignation at the Gestapo’s seizure of Monsignor Gavrllo, Patriarch of the Orthodox Chureh.

“Monsignor Gavrilo,’’ he said, “was accused by the Germans of having sheltered our national treasure, which belongs to the Crown and to the Orthodox people of Yugoslavia. With their usual cynicism and in accordance with their anti-religious tactics in Poland and other countries, the Germans want to plunder not only individual and State property and the food of the people, but also the treasures under the protection pf out spiritual leaders. This ignominious act on the part of the Gestapo and swastika followers, who are drenched In the blood of the peoples they have overrun, is bound to provoke the utmost disgust in all the civilized world.’’

The most telling point the speaker made was that the country which had perpetrated the outrage was the country which for many years had publish cd books on Yugoslav monastries and their spiritual significance for the Orthodox people of Yugoslavia—a country which also had maintained for many years that its'chief desire was to promote friendly relations between the Yugoslav and German people.” The Press Association states that Monsignor Gavrilo was arrested in a monastery at Ostrong, Montenegro. “During the five centuries of Turkish rule over Serbia the Turks never tried to enter our monasteries and search for money, priests and bishops,” the diplomat said. . “Now we see twentieth century Germany trying to apply the methods of the Tartars and other Asiatic conquerors.’’

BAYONET CHARGE

Maoris At Close Quarters With Germans

SYDNEY, May 5.

The war correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph,” cabling from Alexandria, says that one of the highlights of the Anzacs’ lighting retreat to the Greek coast was the only bayonet charge of the campaign by a hard-pressed Maori battalion.

Performing a haku, they, swept into the German positions, stabbing, thrusting. and yelling. The terrified Germans, to whom (his form of warfare was archaic, dispersed and ran. The Maoris bayoneted 50 of them to death and pursued the others ' blindly before they discovered that they were behind the enemy tanks.