MASS MURDER
IN LITTLE FRENCH TOWN FOLLOWING ON DERAILMENT OF GERMAN TRAIN. 97 VICTIMS ARRESTED HAPHAZARDLY. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, May 9. Details of mass murder at Asq, which is a little town near Lille, are revealed by the “Gazette de Lausanne.” A special correspondent of the paper says Partisans are numerous in Asq. A German military train was derailed on May 3. Twenty Germans were killed. The Germans arrested 97 persons hap- • hazardly in houses, streets and fields and executed them, without explanation, on the order of a German 'officer. The Regional Prefect resigned and the people’s indignation was so great that Vichy feared an uprising.. Laval intervened, expressing a belief that the German Command would repress the bloody initiative “of an officer who seems to have lost his reason.” The correspondent adds that attacks against German communications have increased since last month. Thousands of workers have vowed , vengeance and resistance. Their chiefs are appealing to the Partisans to wait for the right moment to strike.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1944, Page 4
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