SABOTAGE IN FRANCE

Grey River Argus, 19 August 1942, Page 2

SABOTAGE IN FRANCE

LONDON, August 13.

A Stockholm message stated there was a wave of sabotage again in occupied France, the Paris region and industrial north being particularly affected. Many German soldiers were killed and wounded in an explosion following a collision between a German troop train and a fuel train on the Dousi-Aarras 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 the main line railway embankment was blown up. At Auinay Sous Bqis, north-west of Paris, many were arrested, and bicycles and radios were confiscated. As a reprisal, a lamp factory was burnt out. At Ivry sur Seine, on the south-eastern edge of Faris, the premises of a motor-car firm, Chenad Walcker, and also a paint factory were burned down. The damage is estimated at 35,000,000 francs. A German ammunition train was blown up at a railway station in the Seine- Inferieurs Department. Seven hundred hostages were arrested near Hazebrouck on a pretext that parachutists had been seen there. Patriots cut a ditch across the road at Vitrle Francois, wrecked a lorry and killed one German officer and six soldiers, and injured six soldiers.

The British United Press says that the police discovered 451bs of dynamite near Clermont Ferrand; and it is suggested, but not confirmed that ir. was for dynamiting Laval’s chateau at Chateldon, 30 miles away. Police leave has been suspended in this area. Unknown persons attacked with grenades 60 German airmen, exercising at the Jean Bouin Stadium, killing two, seriously injuring eight and slightly injuring ten. The attack was the climax to a week of intense antiGerman activity and sabotage, including the dynamiting of lockages which blocked the Nord Canal at Tergnier.