UNIONISTS CALL FOR SABOTAGE

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 258, 28 July 1941, Page 8

UNIONISTS CALL FOR SABOTAGE

European Unrest Nazis Arrest dutch LEADER

(British Official Wireless.)' (Received. July 27, 7 p.m.)

RUGBY, July 26.

The emergency council of the International Transport Workers’ Federation passed a resolution appealing to the transport workers in occupied countries to sabotage by every suitable means traffic by rail, road, air and water that is destined . for and serves the ends of the Axis Powers. A Vichy message says that M. Dormoy, a Socialist leader who was in M. Blum’s Popular Front Cabinet, has been assassinated at Montelimar, where he had been confined to ■ his residence following his. imprisonment iu connexion with hostility to the Vichy regime. A bomb is, reported to have exploded in Ms bedroom. Dutch circles in London learn that the Germans in Holland have, arrested Dr. Colijn and 60 of his political party. The Germans suppressed the party last week. [Dr. Colijn was formerly Premier of Holland. He escaped to England with the other members of the Government during the occupation of Holland, but later he returned secretly to his country, where he hoped to find a x basis for national collaboration with the Nazis.] Czechoslovakia’s Will-

The Premier of the Czechoslovak Government, Dr. Benes, in a broadcast to his people today, told them of the recognition of the President and Government by Britain and the similar action by Russia, as well as the signing of the treaty of mutual assistance and alliance in the war against Hitlerite Germany. Dr. Benes said his Government was continuing negotiations with Poland, with whom it wished close unity and collaboration.

He added that Czechoslovakia was being built up again bit by bit, and he exhorted his countrymen to remain strong. “We are guided by our stubborn will and our patriotic faith in a great victory,” he said. Trains Smashed. A Moscow communique today states that more than 200 casualties resulted from a collision between a goods train and a troop train near Warsaw, which also interrupted traffic. The Gestapo immediately arrested numerous railwaymen.

Moscow also announces that two German munition trains proceeding through Sweden to Finland have been blown up. Germany has asked for protective measures by the Swedish Government

A Moscow communique yesterday stated: “A guerrilla detachment of Norwegian workmen operating in the Fascist rear in northern Finland attacked a German motorized column. The German officers and men who accompanied the column were all killed, and 15 lorries laden with munitions and food were destroyed.” Moscow radio reported that in the Polish port of Gdynia, during the loading of shells into a transport, an explosion occurred. The force of the explosion damaged a German destroyer and a minesweeper which were in port at the time. The Nazi authorities arrested more than 200 port employees suspected of sabotage. Serbian Revolt

According to a message from Ankara, 50,000 Serbs are now in revolt and the Axis has been compelled to strengthen the garrisons throughout the entire .country. Ten thousand men alone have been added to the Belgrade garrison. The patriots are well supplied with arms, and constantly raid the German supply bases. So unsuccessful have the Germans been in stamping out these bands that they have given up the attempt to get them out of the mountains, and are now seeking to isolate them instead.