OCCUPIED COUNTRIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 December 1942, Page 5

OCCUPIED COUNTRIES

BELGIAN DEVELOPMENTS

RUGBY, December 22. Reports reaching London state that new defence works are being constructed all along the Belgian North Sea coast. The German controlled newspaper “Le Nouveau Journal, published in Brussels, openly admits that the possibility of a second front in Europe has upset the calculations of the German General staff for Russia. The newspaper states: Even since September, it has been evident that at least half the general reserves at Hitler’s and Mussolini’s disposal have not been fighting in Russia. The paper adds: These were crack divisions numbering perhaps one hundred or more. . It is also reported that in a single night, five bomb explosions occurred in Brussels. Houses inhabited by Nazi agents were badly damaged, and several persons were wounded. At Tongres, an attempt was made on the life of the National Socialist burgomaster.

NORWEGIANS IN CAMP

RUGBY, December 22

The Germans released 44 Norwegians from the Grini concentration camp, but there are still 1900. Norwegians doomed to spend Christmas there, besides many thousands .of Norwegians held in concentration camps elsewhere in Norway, states the Norwegian Information Bureau, London. EATING MORE RATS (Rccd. 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, December 22. Jugged rat is becoming a fashionable dish in Paris, says the Vichy correspondent of the Swiss newspaper, “Neue Zurcher Zeitung.” ‘ The Paris authorities began an “Eat More Rat” campaign in November after a member of the Paris Academy

of Medicine declared that rats were even better to eat than pork or rabbit.