BLOCKADE OF BELGRADE.
GUERRILLA TACTICS. LONDON. Nov. 11
“Sorb torrqrists are trying to starve out ■ Belgrade,” said the Mayor of the capital in a broadcast to-day. “Not a single bushel of wheat lias reached the city since the harvest, because the terrorists are interrupting transport.” The Belgrade newspaper Vremc says that more than 90U Communists were killed in the first week of November in battles between guerrillas and General Neditcli’s troops. It is learned in London that the Bulgarian Government has ordered the employees of railways and harbours to come under military discipline.
The Prague radio stated that seven Czechs, including a stationmaster and income tax collector, have been executed for high treason and sabotage. Dr. Jan Masaryk in London to-day, said that the recent wave of executions in Czechoslovakia had resulted from a split between the German army and Gestapo. He predicted that there would he an open breach soon. The mass executions had failed to suppress the Czechs, who were more determined and more angry than ever.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 291, 13 November 1941, Page 7
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