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NAZI REPRISALS AGAINST PARTISANS MASS MURDER IN FRENCH TOWN (Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON May 9. Details of a mass murder at Asq, which is a little town near Lille, are revealed by the ' Gazette de Lausanne.' A special correspondent of the paper says partisans are numerous in Asq. A German military train was derailed on May 3 and 20 Germans were killed. The Germans arrested 97 persons haphazardly in houses, streets, and fields, and executed them without explanation on the order of a German officer. The regional prefect resigned and the people's indignation was so great that Vichy feared an uprising. Laval intervened, expressing the belief that the German command would" repress the bloody initiative "of an officer who seems to have lost his reason." The correspondent adds that attacks against the Germans and communications have increased since last month. Thousands of workers have vowed vengeance. The resistance chiefs' are appealing to the partisans to wait for the right moment to strike. .
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Evening Star, Issue 25171, 10 May 1944, Page 3
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