OCCUPIED COUNTRIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 October 1942, Page 5

OCCUPIED COUNTRIES

FRENCH WORKERS’ TRANSFER

LAVAL PRO-GERMAN POLICY LONDON, October 20. Occupied France has 10 days left in which to meet, the German demand for the supply of 150,000 skilled workers. Appeals to workers are going out over the Pans and Vichy radio stations. , The Vichy radio is offering workers going to Germany insurance against accidents, including injury suffered through Royal Air Force bombing. It says that two trains loaded withworkers have left Paris. for Germany, and that another train is on the way from Bordeaux. LAVAL’S EFFRONTERY

(Recd. If a.m.) LONDON, October 20. Two trains full of workers left Paris for Germany, and a third group left Bordeaux, says the Vichy radio. Laval appealing for more workers to go to Germany said: “The Germans are suffering heavy losses. I am not sure you realise the true situation. France's over-riding interests demand a policy of collaboration with Germany. The agreement. I made with Germany had a certain measure of effect, but since yesterday I have been obliged to take other measures which France must accept.” The new inducement offered to workers going to Germany is a promise that they will be insured against accident, whether by ordinary causes or British bombing. Previously they were told they would have to take their chance in air-raids.

Laval, in his speech, declared: I am certain that if Germany is beaten Russia will rule Europe. This will mean the end of France’s independence. I must direct France's policy in such a way that France will not be the victim of a German victory..! am trying to safeguard French territories. DANES ORDERED TO QUIT (Recd. .10 a.m.) LONDON, October 20. The “Daily Mail's” Stockholm correspondent says that the German authorities ordered all Danish troops to withdraw from Jutland by midNovember.

DUTCH HOSTAGES SHOT

LONDON, October 19

Additional Dutch hostages have been shot for acts of sabotage committed at the week-end. says a message from Zurich. The entire coastal zone of South Holland, to North Holland and Zealand, have been declared a fortified area, from which the population must be prepared for evacuation.

ARRESTS IN NORWAY

LONDON, Octobei.' 19

“The Times’s” Stockholm correspondent says: All United States citizens in Norway have been arrested “in reprisal for the arrest of German citizens in the United States. ■ It is renorted from Oslo that, all male Jews over the age of eight years in Trondheim were taken into custody and placed in concentration camps. TERRORISM IN CROATIA. (Rec. 1 p.m.) NEAV Y r ORK, Oct. 20. A representative of the Jugoslav Government. France Snoj, has received smuggled from Croatia, a copy of an official Italian Army decree, ordering soldiers to destroy and burn all buildings in which Italians are insulted.” Soldiers are further ordereo to shoot without warning “all acting ininii-Ccilly, nnd nil ninlcs bchnving suspiciously.” STRIKES AT ATHENS ISTANBUL. October 18. Italian Carabinieri turned machine guns on transport strikers who were demonstrating in Athens. A large number were killed or wounded. Twelve suspected ringleaders were taken into custody. Italians also seized one hundred hostages and sent them to concentration camp as a reprisal for the wounding of two soldiers during the disorder.