THE BALKANS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 23 September 1941, Page 5

THE BALKANS

GUERRILLA RESISTANCE ORGANISED W ARE.ARE YGAINSI AXIS FORCES » NOR MOl S (AS! AI.TIES IN FI MUD Guerrilla resistance in Yugo slavi.i has developed into largescale organised warfare against (lie Axis occiipGi'g forces reports the special correspondent of the “New York Times," Mr Getl.ve, who is now in Ankara. Operating as army guerrillas tlie> are reported to etmlrol four of Yugoslavia’s most important provinces, Montenegro, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Central Sc Ida. The guerrillas are inflicting enormous i i 1 as 1 laities on German and Italian l Ruinc newspapers published lists of Italian casualties in Serbia during August, which are threefold greater j than Italy's losses in Libya in the -same j month. SABOTAGE IN GREECE | The gallant Greeks are fighting thenoppressors with other methods. Athens ! m wspapors publish long lists of people I sentenced to death for sabotage, aidjin and arming, Anzae soldiers who are still hiding in Greece, and for attacking and damaging thb enemy when and \\ here they can. Jn Crete civilians aided by British ; 111 ,i Anzae soldiers are still harrying die occupying forces. They are proving SO troublesome that the vice Premier of the puppet Government. M. Logotetopoulos, has been sent to Crete to try and restore order. RISING TIDE OF REVOLT’ The situation in Rumania is becoming anarchic. General Antoneseu returned from the Russian front to try and stem the rising tide of revolt. j j f both Rumania and Hungary 15 the harvest. Newspapers in Paris disclosed that a German. Captain Seheben, was killed during the current series of attacks against Nazis. Over 20® Parisians have been arrested since the enforcement of a curlew. Some were released and the remainder added to the German "pool'' of hostages. |tT AIMI ! NIST DERI TIES EXECUTED The Berne correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain reports that Bulgaria executed Communist de_ i uties and interned Peasant Party deputies The Russian Information Bureau denied Bulgarian allegations that Rus s ; an parachutists and saboteurs were landed in Bulgaria.—U.P.A. UNREST IN FRANCE POTATO CROP FOR GERMANY PEASANTS ENRAGED (Rec. 12.25 p.m.' London, Sept. 22 The Moscow radio states that unrest in France is increasing. Building workers at Arras struck and peasants are hiding grain from the authorities. There was serious unrest at Pas de Calais, whore peasants were enraged at the requisitioning of the whole of the potato crop for Germany.— A Vichy message states that the occupation authorities are reported to be doubling the requisitions for supplies for the winter. A Communist Party committeemen a former deputy. Jean Cnthclns. was sentenced to death. At Paris 22 men and nine women ! were sentenced to imprisonment from a 1 year to life. VIOLENT EXPLOSIONS Czechoslovak quarters in London learn that a violent explosion destroyed an important shell- filling factory at Vlasim, injuring ninety Germans. The number of dead is unknown. Almost simultaneously the power station at Trebenice was blown up and the greater part destroyed.—U.P.A.