New Wave Of Sabotage Sweeping France

Northern Advocate, 14 August 1942, Page 3

New Wave Of Sabotage Sweeping France

LONDON, August 13.

A wave of sabotage is again sweeping occupied France. The Paris region and the industrial north seem to be particularly affected says a Stockholm message. Many German soldiers were killed and wounded in an explosion following a collision between a German troop-train and a fuel train on the Douai-Arras line. Forty-four trucks, 19 tank-cars and two engines were wrecked. A .similar incident at Lille recently resulted in 160 Germans killed and many injured. Twelve motors ready to go to Germany were destroyed at Denain and the main-line railway embankment was blown up.

At Aulnay Sous Bois„ northwest of Paris, many were arrested and bicycles and radios were confiscated as a reprisal when a lamp factory was burnt out. At Ivry Sur Seine, on the south-eastern edge of Paris, on the ises of the motor-car firm of Chenad Walcker, also a paint factory, were burned down. Gennevilliers damage is estimated at 35,000,0000 francs. A German ammunition train was blown up at the railway station in the Seine Inferieure Department sevenhundred hostages were arrested near Hazebrouck on the pretext that parachutists were seen there. Patriots cut the ditch across the road at Vitrle Francois, wrecked a lorry, killed one German officer, and six soldiers and injured six soldiers. The Germans sent 50 to a concentration camp after acts of sabotage in various towns in the Hainault Provfincev including the (destruction of electricity installations involving a stoppage of factories. Entertainments within a four miles’ radius of the towns were closed down.