IT GROWS IN EUROPE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 230, 30 September 1941, Page 5

IT GROWS IN EUROPE

MORE HOSTAGES SECT BY GERMANS WARNINGS TO FRANCE (Recd. 8.40 p.m.) London, Sept. 2S. The Times Istanbul correspondent says that German-Italian terrorist measures against Yugoslav patriots are inflaming the populace instead of quelling the risings. Thrr new German divisions have been sent lo Servia to copc with the situation. Servian bands are operating westward of Belgrade. They are commanded by M. Lebedon, a former councillor of the Soviet Legation in Belgrade. They recently captured 63 Gorman soldiers. The Belgrade-Nish railway ha. 1 agr been destroyed at Paracin. Traffic is also interrupted on the railways of Bosnia. From 1500 Serbs imprisoned in Belgrade 50 are chosen at random and executed whenever one German soldier is shot. The Germans on a recent Sunday hanged six Serbs and left them exposed in the city square in Belgrade with the object of subduing the population, but the people arposely thronged the square pretending not to notice the bodies. The Germans compelled Serb gendarmes to shoot peasants in reprisal for the killing of German soldiers. The Germans placed machine-guns behind gendarmes. This practice will be continued, because all the Serb commissars and gendarmes threatened to resign. The Germans have sent a threatening message through the radio in Luxemburg lo former French war prisoners. Some of them, on their return, have taken up the dirty work of anti-German propaganda and have become agents of General do Gaulle and (he Communists. Such behaviour does not encourage German clemency. The measures taken so far are only warnings. For instance, ten Communists will be shot immediately for every German attacked. The curfew imposed on Parisians is another warning. If the French fail to use every means of opposing anti-German propaganda, which will bring misfortune to millions of their countrymen. Germany is determined to take more severe measures. It is for you to decide. Frenchmen, whether xou listen to British propaganda, with its me: - sage of death and revolution, or list* to our voice, which is the voice of freedom.’ U.P.A,

(Recd. 8.20 p.m.) Vichy, Sept. 29. As a reprisal for dynamite attacks on Wednesday night and Thursday on German convoys and French trains, the Germans shot 20 particularly active Communists, according to Paris newspapers. Armed terrorists allegedly stole considerable quantities of 'xplosives on Monday night and a series of attacks started on Wednesday near the seen? of the theft, believcdly the railway between Lille and Paris.

It is announced from Vichy that four Germans were killed in Lille and three killed and six wounded in Paris since August 13. In retaliation the Germans, so far. have executed 61 Frenchmen, of whom 49 were put to death in the past 10 days.—U.P.A. An Oslo (Norway) report says that fire destroyed workshops, laboratories and 'stocks in a saltpetre factory in the Telemark province.