“ON WAY TO ANARCHY”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 4, 6 January 1944, Page 5

“ON WAY TO ANARCHY”

FRENCH REVOLT PLANNED Recd. 6 p.m. London, Jan. 4. Counter-measures were taken in France to prevent a revolt planned to coincide with the Allied landing, says Paris radio. “The changes in the Ministry of the Interior were made in the nick of time. We were on the way to anarchy. The insurrection in France which was originally planned to run simultaneously with the Allied landing with the object of creating trouble in the German rear and paralysing the defences was beginning to take shape without waiting for the invasion. The insurgents were gaining the upper hand over the badlyarmed and ill-organised security forces, ,and the way was being paved for civil war.” The radio adds that 100 Nazi sympathisers have been killed by Paris patriots in the past few months.

lost your bivvy, too?” I asked. “No,” said h-e. “But I left the truck here last night.” The truck was there all righa, in a 12-foot drift in the lee of the hill. Further up the road itself was blocked by a monster snowdrift over 15 feet deep; it was cleared as 1 left, and the traffic moved again. For the forward troops, however, mules are the only solution. STRONG AIR RAID ITALIAN BALL-BEARING WORKS Recd. 7.15 p.m. London, Jan. 4. In their third big attack against the ball-bearing works at Villaperosa, 25 miles south-west of Turin, Flying-! Fortresses scored at least six directi !hits on the main building, says ReuIter’s Algiers correspondent. The FortIresses found the factory strongly defended. Other Fortresses scored at least 100 hits on the Turin railway yard, temporarily blocking the through lines. Medium bombers well covered the docks and railway installations at Split, and Sibenik. on the Dalmatian coast, and attacked a large concentra-l tion of troops at Prijedor. Light bombers and fighter-bombers all day long continued to support the army. The targets attacked included motor transport In the Avezzano area and the docks al Civitavecchia. Seven enemy planes were destroyed and three of ours arc missing.