TENSION GROWS
BELGIUM AND HOLLAND
(Rec. 9 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. I. , Stockholm' reports that newspapers from1 the Low Countries reveal increasing tension in Belgium and Holland.
A Flemish Nazi newspaper states thai 20 persons were sentenced to death for killing two German soldiers. They included two Belgian police inspectors. "The police before the war were quickly able to arrest criminals," it said. "This is no longer so. We are very sceptical about this sudden incompetence." Dutch papers report that a Dutchman was executed for attacking a German policeman and another was gaoled for a year for sending a congratulatory card to the father of a Dutch Nazi who was killed in Russia.
The newspaper "Preus," defending the evacuation of civilians from the Dutch coast, states that speedy and thorough measures were called for. "It is the law of war that these fortifications are being made as strong as German experience knows how, in order to prevent a British invasion. They protect Holland against becoming a ruin. Dispossessed coastal householders must realise that the Wehrmacht's interests come first. German soldiers are entitled to decent billets."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 27, 2 February 1943, Page 5
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184TENSION GROWS Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 27, 2 February 1943, Page 5
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