OCCUPIED AREAS

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

OCCUPIED AREAS

CIVILIANS SUFFER

MORE THREATS BY AXIS

MASTERS

LONDON, October 11

Several agency messages today help to fill out the picture of life in the various countries overrun by the Nazis, j The German-controlled Paris radio jeers, at Marshal Petain's recent broadcast announcing further rationing restrictions, and says these are fully deserved. The Italian Press wants to make France's lot worse, but the "Popolo di Roma" this morning declares that thej whole of France and not only the Government was responsible for the collapse. It raises a cry for further guarantees from France. Flemish listeners were threatened today by the German-controlled radio at Brussels with severe penalties for] sabotage. No details were given, but the same station today also,said that, the Germans had seized stocks of potatoes at Antwerp which farmers were alleged to be keeping off the market. This action, said the announcer, would help to relieve the potato shortage. Messages from Oslo say that the. Nazis have decided to build concentration camps for political prisoners. Journalists and students have been arrested for anti-Nazi demonstrations. With all these preoccupations it is not surprising that German officers are re- i ported to be less confident now of ultimate victory than they were when France was defeated. BrigadierGeneral Horace Fuller, who was until recently Military Attache at the United States Embassy in France, gave that as his opinion today in Ottawa. German officers, he said, were a bit puzzled now, and Germany's losses in the air were not making them feel any better.