WOUNDED GERMAN IN PARIS DIES
REPRISALS THREATENED TROUBLE AT RENAULT WORKS (Recd. 5.5 p.m.) Vichy, Sept. 17. A German non-commissioned officer who was seriously wounded in Paris on September 16, has died. The German authorities have threatened to take hostages from all classes of the Parisian populace unless the present series of attacks against German soldiers ceases. Placards, posted throughout the city, declare that the Germans will greatly extend the reprisals if the attacks are continued. The Daily Mail's Madrid correspondent says more trouble has broken out at the Renault works. Clermont. The police are under orders to “fire without warning.”
The guard on the Renault works is continually pelted with pieces of metal. Several workers are arrested daily, which is inciting go-slow strikes.
Works are at present producing entirely for the Germans, but the production is reported to be a quarter of the full capacity.—U.P.A.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 221, 19 September 1941, Page 5
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