SABOTEURS ACTIVE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 90, 12 October 1940, Page 12

SABOTEURS ACTIVE

THE OCCUPIED AREAS

BRITISH TROOPS AIDED BY PEOPLE

REMAINS OF B.E.F.

(Received October 12, 2 p.m.)

LONDON, October 11

The Belgian correspondent of "The Times" says that members of the British Expeditionary Force are still in north-western Belgium and northern France, where, with the complicity of the population, who supply them with civilian clothing and other assistance, they defy the efforts of the Gestapo to capture them. The Germans have broadcast threats of severe penalties against Belgians for concealing British soldiers and also for sabotage which a secret army of patriots is actively carrying* on. The German-owned newspaper "Brusseler Zeitung" publishes a list, of acts of sabotage at Liege, illustrating that the heavy penalties imposed last month have not deterred the saboteurs. The newspaper threatens new communal punishment. The threats suggest that the well-being and even the lives of German troops are endangered. Saboteurs were admitted to be active in Liege and Luxembourg, and destroyed petrol stores at Antwerp and a rubber factory at Brussels and cut military cables. The Burgomaster of Waterloo has been ordered to mobilise men between the ages of 18 and 50 for guarding Ger. man barracks and military establishments.