NAZI PRESS GANG

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 22, 27 January 1942, Page 6

NAZI PRESS GANG

TIGHTER GRIP OF TERROR

RUGBY, January 25.

As the undercurrents of hostility gather volume in the occupied countries of Europe, so the grip of the Nazi terror tightens.

In Austria families where sons or fathers have deserted from the German army are being deliberately broken up, according to information reaching London. Wives have been sent to work in German towns exposed to British air raids. Boys under military age are forced into labour squads in Germany or Poland. Girls are sent to farm work in Silesia. From Innsbruck alone forty such cases have been reported.

In Poland sabotage continues, despite all the German attempts to suppress it. Mass executions have been carried out by the Germans as part of the policy of allocating collective responsibility for sabotage.

The cold reality behind the new order is shown in a different fashion in Czecho-Slovakia, where the Germans have ceased to refer to the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. It is now called "the former Czech space." Significant, too, is the fact that henceforth German will be the language spoken at Cabinet meetings in Prague.

The lengths to which the Germans will go to secure man-power are illustrated in the introduction of a new law in Norway whereby young men may join the German armed forces or the Norwegian volunteer legion against Russia without the consent of their parents. This law was announced by Vichy radio.—B.O.W.