NAZI DOMINATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 150, 21 December 1940, Page 11

NAZI DOMINATION

-MORE RESISTANCE

OCCUPIED COUNTRIES

SABOTAGE RIFE

LONDON, December 20.

News of increasing resistance to German domination continues to reach London from occupied countries. The labour adviser to the Free French movement said that underground organisations were being formed in French factories and sabotage was increasing throughout France.

When a ship was ordered to take Italian armistice officers from Marseilles to Corsica the crew went on strike.

The Free Dutch newspaper published in London reports that the Nazis have introduced compulsory labour service in Holland for six months of the year for all young Dutchmen. A Dutch business man who appeared in court charged with objecting to Holland being incorporated in the German Reich found an unexpected .champion in counsel for the prosecution. The Dutch lawyer who had been ordered to prosecute him defended him instead in these words: "The impression should not be created that Dutch people agree with imitation Germans among them to allow the surrender of the nation. For warning the Germans about this, the prisoner should have gratitude and freedom.1' The Court broke up without passing sentence. > •

Things are no happier in Denmark, and German newspapers accuse the Danish Prime Minister of failing to co-operate with the Germans.

From Norway it is reported that thousands of broadsheets inscribed' "Norway for the Norwegians" are being distributed by the underground opposition. The broadsheets urge the Norwegians to sabotage all Nazi effort, not to participate in Nazi-sponsored sporting events, and, above all, not to go to Germany as labourers. The German-controlled Press at Brussels complains of similar activity in Belgium and says that an avalanche of stories and absurd rumours has created a detestable atmosphere in Belgium. Sabotage and passive resistance are said to be increasing.

More acts of sabotage are reported from Czecho-Slovakia. Attempts to make the Czech people collect waste have failed completely, and people are simply burning bones and paper instead of allowing them to be collected. The Germans now allow every householder to have three hens without tax, but every additional hen must supply 60 eggs annually. At one place near Prague a hen was found hanging by its neck with a note attached: "I committed suicide rather than lay eggs for Hitler."

In Poland a typhoid epidemic is said to have broken out, and at Cracow a new intestinal disease has made its appearance.