100 ARRESTED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 24 October 1941, Page 5

100 ARRESTED

HOSTAGES IN BORDEAUX DISTRICT RES ILT <>l KILLING OF NAZI MAJOR h incessant sabotage in i:i rope London, Oct.. 22. \ report from Vichy states that as a result of the assassination of the German major at Bordeaux 100 hostage* have been arrested in the Bordeaux district, and the tiermans have ordered a curfew in the city between 7 p.m. and K a_m. I lie Germans announce that 50 of the hostages will be shot tomorrow unless the major’s murder It is revealed that the execution of SO hostages lor the murder of laeutenant-Colonel Holtz, commander in Nantes, was carried out in Paris and other cities as well as Nantes. The Germans describe 31 of those executed as Communists. I’hey included a former Communist deputy in Paris, M . Michels. fourteen I)e Gaullites were among those shot for the lloltz murder, according to a Vichy rcI PUBLIC FEELING GRAVE A semi-official Vichy spokesman said ‘ Do-clay that public feeling is grave in .occupied and unoccupied France following the assassinations and the sev--1 i oi'ity of the German reprisals. < j The 8.8. C. broadcasting to the - i French people, said, “Remain calm, not t . ; for the sake of the German oppressors t , but for tlie sake of the French people. , j >’ ou bad a real Government in Vichy t j Marshal Retain would have found a j ; word of protest against the shooting s ; of hundreds of innocents. Retain, by J appealing for collaboration in discov- , jery of tiie attackers of the German officer, has degiaded himself to the level / | of Quisling or Darlan. I | “Carry on your war against the opy j pressors—sabotage. Remember that the day of vengeance is coming.” e The Swiss radio stated that M. a Blanchot, the Mayor of Saint Nazaire l w bo was a former Minister of Marine r has been arrested. A Zagreb message states that 200 v Jews, alleged to be Communists, have e been executed for an attack on two German soldiers in Belgrade on 18th October. , It is reported from Bucharest that ' 16 terrorists were executed in Bessarabia. They were reported to be mem- ’ hers of a sabotage band which was or- ! ganised after the Russian retreat from 1 Bessarabia. Berlin radio claimed the capture of Yuri Korobkov, described as one of the highest officials of the Ogpu, who j remained in the occupied territory in j Russia to organise sabotage, j The Soviet news agency says that l ! sabotage is operating on a vast scale s| * n Slovakia, and that last week three 1 ! troop trains going to the Russian front s i were derailed. } | Moscow radio claimed that sabotage _ Jin Belgium has reached a mass scale. I ! Within three months 125 accidents _ ! have occurred to trains carrying Gerajnian war material. The factories in _ | Antwerp which were supplying the t | Germans have been put out of commisjsi on. More than 600 persons were ' ; arrested in Belgium last week. i The death penalty has been imposed y j for anyone who attempts to leave Nor- ! way -ithout German permission. Alj i ready several thousands of young men Dari women have arrived in Britain to j j work for the Allied cause. —U P A ITALY ENSLAVED MUSSOLINI VIRTUALLY A PRISONER FURTHER EVIDENCE OI UNREST Rugby, Oct.. 22. » ; A visit which lias been made by the Nazi Economic Minister and President i of the Reichsbank, Dr Funk, to Italy, and a glowing picture he painted in i | Rome of the Italian trade future in : | the Mediterranean are regarded here - i as further signs of the complete domin- - j ation by the Nazis of their so-called - I partner. - j The speed with which Mussolini has ? ! sunk from the proud equal in the Bren, liner talks to a "gauleitcr" in the Ger- • j man-controlled Europe is emphasised ,i by “The Times, ’’ which says: “Mussojlini has himself become a virtual pris- . oner of the Gestapo. He is now no L ! longer 'll Duce’ of Italy but the gaui j leiter of the Italian provinces in the I German Reich' ! “Any dream lie may have had of be- ; in," treated as an equal partner by his fellow-gangster must have been finally dispatched by the way in which the Italian feelings and the Italian interests have been disregarded in the Bal- : ’ kans. Italian troops, it is true, are : being allowed to do some of the donkey work of holding down the enslaved j Greeks and Yugoslavs, but all decisions ] on policy are made by the Germans. “The humiliations of this position ; must, for those Italians who still re- j tain a sense of national pride and i national honour, be still harder to bear than the material hardships which their position entails.” Reports from Italy bring further evidence of serious unrest, and according to neutral journalists Italy is on • i the verge of evolt. I The army officers are resentful over . Mussolini’s action in sending Italian I troops out of the country at Germany’s ; request. ■ There is also evidence that Italy | fears an invasion by Britain, and fever, lish steps are being taken to safeguard; I the coastline. —8.0. W.