SABOTAGE WAVE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20862, 14 August 1942, Page 4

SABOTAGE WAVE

SWEEPING FRANCE WRECKING”AND ARSON NAZIS SUFFER HEAVILY ('Ey Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (2 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 13. A wave of sabotage is again sweeping occupied France. The Paris region and the- industrial north seem to be particularly affected, says a Stockholm message. Many German soldiers were killed and wounded in- an explosion following a collision between a German troop train and a fuel train on the DouaLArras line. Forty-four trucks, 19 tank-cars and two engines, were wrecked. A similar incident at Lille recently resulted in 100 Germans being killed and many'injured. Twelve motors ready to go. to. Germany . were destroyed at Denain. A main-line railway embankment was blown up .at Aulnay Sous Bois, north-west of Paris. Many persons, were arrested and bicycles and radios confiscated as a .reprisal. : A lamp factory ,was burnt out at Ivry Sur Seine, on the south-eastern edge of Paris. The premises of the motor car firm of Chen D. Walcker and also a paint factory were burned down at Genni-, villiers. The damage'is estimated at 35,000,000 francs. A German ammunition train was blown up at a railway station in the Seine Inferieure Department. Seven hundred hostages have been arrested near Hazebrouck on , the pretext that -parachutists were seen there. Patriots. cut a ditch across a road and wrecked a lorry, .killed one German officer and six soldiers, and injured six soldiers. - ! J