HITLER ALARMED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1942, Page 3

HITLER ALARMED

SECOND FRONT THREAT TO EUROPE EXTENSIVE PRECAUTIONS TAKEN. MEASURES OF REPRESION. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, June 16. Hitler is taking the threat of a second front in Europe seriously and is reported to have taken two precautions. First, he has ordered FieldMarshal von Rundstedt to make the western army selfsupporting; and secondly, he has sent the German transport expert. Dr Todt ’s successor, Herr Speer, to inspect Europe’s anti-invasion defences. Von Rundstedt has been told that he must depend on the factories in the west of Germany for his equipment — presumably to economise transport. Speer is reported to have toured the north of France and Holland where, according to a Vichy report, every farmhouse has been converted into a blockhouse and a network of supply roads to the front has been constructed. Meanwhile, unrest has necessitated more repression. A special section for children has been opened at a concentration camp at Grini. The first batch of children, whose parents are already in camp, are held prisoners behind barbed wire. The youngest is aged four. A Belgian engineer was executed for, it is . alleged, making bombs for sabotage.