SABOTAGE IN FRANCE

Evening Star, Issue 23749, 3 December 1940, Page 8

SABOTAGE IN FRANCE

HATRED DF GERMANS MORE INTENSE HOW WORKERS RISK DEATH Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright " LONDON, December 2. (Received December 3, at 8 a.m.) An account of bow French workers are risking death by sabotaging German, aircraft factories in France is given by the ‘ Daily Mail,’ which publishes a story written by a Frenchman who has reached England. He says sabotage is rapidly increasing at the Citroen, Gnome, Renault, and other factories, where the Germans are bribing or threatening certain Frenchmen to'mingle with the workers and report the most outspoken of them. These are picked out and shot. Eight Citroen employees thus became victims in October. Of 20 fighter planes made at the Parisien factory and tried out by Germans three crashed and two pilots were tilled. The Germans then tried to counteract sabotage by using French pilots, but this ceased because the Germans feared the planes would be flown t» England. The article gives. details of numerous incidents illustrating the French haired of the Germans. German soldiers are ordered to keep together when out sightseeing. This is done for their own protection. Communist cells are active in Lyons and hundreds of Frenchmen in key positions in police and administrative. offices are doing their utmost to hinder the Germans and assist escaped prisoners. Wherever possible the French are assisting British prisoners.