UNREST ADMITTED

Grey River Argus, 16 September 1941, Page 5

UNREST ADMITTED

IN OCCUPIED COUNTRIES Latest Reports [Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Rec 9.15). LONDON, Sept. 14. The London “Daily Telegraph’s - ' Zurich correspondent says: “Nazicontrolled newspapers from Bordeaux to Bucharest disclose a state of unrest in occupied countries, because it has reacned such a pitch that it is realised that it is useless to attempt concealment. Evidence or sabotage and unrest throughout Europe is still accumulating. There was an explosion in the harbour at Helsinki, tne capital of Finland. It awakened the population. A communique attributed it to an accident, a depth charge exploding on the deck cr a ship, and igniting a whole cargo of explosives. Two nearby ships were set on lire by burning oil A Brussels newspaper states that a man and two women were sentenced to death for hiding a wounded Koyat Air Force pilot who escaped from a German hospital. It has been announced in Vichy that 34,000 persons are now in prisons and camps. The Moscow radio says: Telephonic communication between Berlin and Budapest was interrupted, following large scale anti-Nazi demonstrations, in Budapest. The Gothenburg “Tidningen” says money and property of a Norwegian Craftsmen’s Union was confiscated, and a Quisling member was made the leader. The inhabitants of Skien were fined 50,000 kroner and forbidden to go out at night time, following (serious disturbance.! against Quislingites, also German soldiers. Fifty Norwegians were arrested. Broadcasting is limited to eight hours daily in Norway. The editor of the Quisling newspaper, the “Fritt Folk,” has been appointed. Leader of the Fress. The Government has decreed that Norwegian workers must make up time lost through air-raid alarms. Four time-bombs were exploded m the Zagreb central telephone exchange, Injuring a German, Major Moehring, of tne Signal Corps, also a German Lieutenant, four soldiers, a telephone operator, and six Croats. The explosion crippled the city’s telephone system. Machinegun lire from a roof-top wounded six Croatian sentries in a Zagreb street. tn addition the railway track between Embrod and Sarajevo was broken for the fourth time by explosives. Demonstrations describeci as subversive occurred in several Sofia secondary schools. The Minister cf Education has threatened to close the schools concerned.

Special courts throughout France has been imposing heavy sentences. At Montpellier and Toulouse, Courts sentenced ten Communists to terms of penal 1 servitude varying between two and ten years. At Paris a Court condemned a dozen Communists from two to seven years. Two persons were sentenced to seven and five years respectively, simply for possessing Communist propaganda. At Clermont Ferrand, a military court sentenced two soldiers to a year for abusing the army. A German officer in Paris was shot in the leg, and a German non-commissioned officer molested.

The Czech radio stated: “A ‘go slow’ week, suggested by a London, broadcast, was a great success. The Nazis will be furious when they realise the reduced output of steel and iron.” The announcer suggested a general strike at the Skoda' Armament Works, saying: “The Germans would be helpless. They cannot shoot everybody.” A Zurich report says: At least a thousand Axis troops, mostly Italians, have been killed since January 10 last in clashes with patriot bands in Herzegovina and Yugoslavia. One clash on the Adriatic coast resulted in four hundred dead on both sides.

At Belgrade, M. Neditch, in broadcasting, said: “Outrages in Serbia are leading to civil war. All Serbs; must do their utmost to prevent the dispatch of punitive expedition whichwould convert Serbia into ruins. The Serbs must, and will, destroy all hostile political parties. Rebels must return to their homes Otherwise they will be destroyed.” Harassing raids by British forces on enemy-occupied coastlines is urged by John Gordon, editor of the “Sunday Express,” who says: “We; are pouring supplies into Russia, but are supplies enough? Look how the cauldron boils in Europe! In Norway, the people are aflame with revolt. In France, thev shoot and stab the hated invader. In Holland, great welcoming crowds gather at the coasts on the mere rumour that the British are coming. Can we do nothing more fdr thane people than talk to them over the radio? Can’t weharry the coastlines, even if only to. hearten the population as they strive to break their chains? A large and completely-equipped expeditionary force may be out. of the question, out is a large expeditionary force necessary? To pin-prick the Germans. 1 would take. picked divisions of the Army, and allot to them each miles of the ioi e«cn unit I would attach a keen-witted young RA.F. group captain and a voung naval captain. with power to call in the necessary air and naval assistance Then I would say to them ‘Your iob is not to land and; stav but to harry, scare, terrify, and kill Germans, bv every trick you. can devise,’ ”