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Tighter on Occupied Countries [Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] LONDON, November 20. , The Allied invasion, of North Africa is resulting in renewed unrest throughout Europe. The Germans, since the beginning of the . North African campaign, have been intensifying the terror in Bohemia and Moravia. On an average three Czechs were executed daily in October and 57 were shot or hanged in the first week of November. Industrial sabotage has increased, and the puppet Government is disturbed about the Slovaks’ scarcely-co.ncealed jubilation over the Allied successes. Complete German divisions have arrived in Croatia to deal with a new revolt in Jugoslavia. Several more provinces have joined the resistance, and new territory dailv .breaks away from the Pavelic Quisling regime Germanitroops are undertaking bigscale operations against the patriots. A Stockholm message says that a clean-up campaign has begun in Alsace to stamp out anti-Nazi Germans and German defeatists. Four prominent Nazis have been expelled and thp activities of all Germans there are being investigated. Gauleiter Wagner, addressing a Nazi convention at Strasbourg, said that Alsace must not become a haven for Nazi defeatists who expected the Americans to show up there. Sabotage in Germany effect on production
(Rec 7-10) LONDON, Nov. 21. The Stockholm newspaper “Trot Sallt” says that sabotage is markedly affecting the output of .German war plants. The production of planes, it is believed, do not exceed three thousand monthly. One thousand Russian prisoners of war employed in the Krupp works at Essen incapacitated themselves by rubbing their hands with sandpaper and poisoning the scratches. The Germans have threatened to execute anyone repeating the ruse. SABOTAGE IN EUROPE. LONDON. November 20. Guerrillas derailed a German goods train carrying building material for Dalmatian' coastal fortifications. Explosives carried' in the train blew up the whole cargo and killed twentysix German soldiers.
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Grey River Argus, 23 November 1942, Page 2
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