WAR ITEMS

Grey River Argus, 22 May 1942, Page 2

WAR ITEMS

LONDON, May 19. According to the Moscow radio, a large number of parachutists landed in Denmark, last week. The radio does not state whether they were British or Russian. The Gestapo hunted the parachutists, but so far not one has been caught. ' The Germans have reinforced the guards at all important points.

The Belgian News Agency reports that fifteen were executed in Brussels, five being reprisals for the attack on the Luftwaffe headquarters in Brussels.

A second span was blown off the Sambre dam, near Charleroi.

Crying “Down with Hitler.” “Laval to gallows,” 1,500 marched past the Theatre Lyons, in which the Berlin State Orchestra was performing. The police did not interfere, and no arrests were made.

The railway between Nantes and La Rochelle was dynamited last night. An important section of the line was destroyed.