OCCUPIED ZONE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 61, 9 September 1941, Page 8

OCCUPIED ZONE

DISORDER IN FRANCE

VICHY EXPECTS IT TO

GROW

NAZIS MAKE ARRESTS

{By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) . (Rec.. L p.m. 5. - LONDON, Sept. 8. The Vichy Government is no longer trying to hide the seriousness of the disorders in the occu- . pied zones or the fact that German reprisals are heightening the unrest. The official news agency predicts the extension to street fighting. : The Germans in Paris arrested ■ ."''Pierre Masse, a former Minister of Justice, and Theodore Valensi, a former deputy who are members of the Alliance Democratique. They are being held as hostages as a result of the incidents in Paris "over the weekend, during which 100 Jews were seized. The Germans executed a Frenchman for aiding French war prisoners to escape to unoccupied France where they were "given' an opportunity of joining the British or de Gaulle: 5' ; PROPAGANDA IN ITAIiY. Moscow radio stated that thousands of anti-Fascist pamphlets, which are circulating throughout Italy, demand Italy's withdrawal from the war, the removal. of Germans from Italy, and the prohibition of the-dispatch of food to Germany from Italy. IV is reported from Stockholm that a munitions dump adjoining a factory near Oslo has been blown up. The factory, is producing nitro-glycerine from milk. Travellers arriving at Ankara from Berlin report a dispute between the Nazi Party and the German army. They state that the dispute followed a declaration by Nazi Party officials that Soviet political commissars captured on the eastern front should be "liquidated."

General List and Marshal Goering are reported to have disagreed, whereupon Hitler rushed propaganda speakers to the front to back up the order that the commissars should be executed. '