SABOTAGE AND UNREST

Evening Star, Issue 23991, 16 September 1941, Page 7

SABOTAGE AND UNREST

RIFE IN OCCUPIES COUNTRIES NO ATTEMPT AT CONCEALMENT HEAVY SENTENCES IMPOSED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, September 15. Evidence of sabotage and unrest is still accumulating throughout Europe, Four time bombs exploded in Zagreb central telephone exchange, injuring a German, Major Mochring, of the Signal Corps, as well as a German lieutenant, four soldiers, a telephone operator, and six Croats. The explosion crippled the city’s telephone system. Machine-gun fire from a rooftop wounded sis Croatian sentries in a Zagreb street. In addition the railway track between Emrod and Sarajevo was broken for the fourth time by explosives. Demonstrations described as subversive occurred in several of Sofia’s secondary schools, and the Minister of Education threatened to close the schools concerned. HELSINKI HARBOUR EXPLOSION. An explosion in Helsinki harbour awakened the population. A communique attributed the accident to a depth charge exploding on the deck of a ship, igniting a M-bole cargo of explosives, two nearby ships being set on fire by burning oil. The Moscow radio says telephonic communication between Berlin and Budapest was interrupted following large-scale demonstrjtions against the Nazis in Budapest. The 1 Gothenburg Tidningon ’ says the money and property of the Norwegian Craftsmen’s Union wore confiscated, and Quisling, who is a member. was made leader. The inhabitants of Skien were fined 50,000 kroner and forbidden to go out at night time following serious disturbances against Quislingites, 1 as well as German soldiers. Fifty Norwegians were arrested.. Broadcasting is limited to eight hours a day in Norway. The editor of the Quisling newspaper, 1 Frittfolk,’ has been appointed leader of the Press. Tile Government decreed that Norwegian workers must make up time lost through air raid alarms. SPECIAL COURTS SET UP. - The Zurich correspondent of the 1 Daily Telegraph ’ says Nazi-controlled newspapers front Bordeaux to Bucharest disclose a state of unrest in occupied countries because it has reached such a pitch that they realised it was useless to attempt concealment. Special courts throughout France are imposing heavy sentences. Montpellier and Toulouse courts sentenced 10 Communists to terms of penal servitude varying between two and 10 years. A Paris courtcondemned a dozen Communists to from two to seven years, and two persons wore sentencel to seven and five years respectively simply for possessing Communist propaganda. The Clermont Ferrand military court sentenced two soldiers to imprisonment for a year for abusing the army. A German officer in Paris was shot in the leg and a German non-commissioned officer was molested. CZECHS GO SLOW, The Czech radio stated that the “ go slow ” week suggested by the Loudon broadcast was a great success, and the Nazis will be furious when they realise that there is a reduced output of steel and iron. The announcer suggested a general strike in the Skoda works. “ The Gormans would be helpless. They cannot shoot everybody.”

In addition to the 1921 class the Bulgarian Government is calling up the 1922 and 1925 classes, excepting students. The Bulgarian Minister of Justice issued a decree aiming at repression of all subversive activity, providing the death penalty for sabotage and espionage and for serious profiteering offeupes.

At least 1,000 Axis troops, most of them Italians, have been killed since January 10 in clashes with patriot bands in Herzegovina and Yugoslavia. One clash on the Adriatic coast resulted in 400 dead on both sides. OUTRAGES IN SERBIA. General Neditch, Yugoslavian Minister of War, broadcasting, said: “Outrages in Serbia are leading to civil war. All Serbs must do their utmost to prevent the despatch of a punative expedition, which would convert Serbia into ruins. The Serbs must join the army, with which the Government will destroy all hostile political parties. Rebels must return to their homes, otherwise they will be destroyed. THE DARDANELLES . HO PASSAGE FOR BULGARIAN WARSHIPS (Rec. 8 a. m.) ISTANBUL, September 15, Following a report that Bulgaria intended to buy warships from Italy and sail them through the Dardeneljes to Black Sea ports, the newspaper ‘ Ikdam,’ declaring that Bulgaria was a belligerent nation on account of the Greek declaration of war against her. says such warships will not bo allowed to pass through the Straits. The article furthermore suggests that M. Molotov’s Note to Bulgaria detailing broaches of neutrality was a warning that the Soviet would declare war if Bulgaria sought to aid the Axis by buying warships from Italy. It added: “ Therefore, whichever way the problem is viewed, it is impossible for these warships to pass through the Straits.” CORINTH CANAL HEAVY DAMAGE BY R.A.F. LONDON, September 14. The Cairo correspondent of the ‘ Daily Telegraph ’ has learned that the R.A.F. raids on the Corinth Canal wore considerably heavier than at first realised. The damage done is expected to put the waterway out of action for many weeks. The heaviest damage was done on the night of September 8, when the bombers blasted the canal banks with 32 tons of high explosive, and some bombers descended to I.oooft. The canal, already blocked by a previous raid, showed up like a silver streak in the brilliant moonlight. Some of _ the bombs are stated to have fallen within 50ft of the canal lip, causing immense landslides, while other bombers dropped mines.