UNDERGROUND FIGHT IN EUROPE
Belgian Minister Escapes PEOPLE WATCH TURNING OF SCALES (By Telegraph—Press Assu.—Copyright.) (Received October 12, 9.10 p.m.) LONDON, October 12. “Famine is sweeping Belgium; the health of the people is lamentable through lack of food and fuel, and the concentration camps and prisons are overflowing,” said M. Antoine Delfosse, Belgian Minister of Justice and Information, who recently eseaped from Belgium, when making a statement in London. “For every one executed, 100 rise. The Church stands in the van of the resistance, and Belgium is loyally attached to her monarchy. All eyes and ears are turned to London, whence victory must come.
“From Cologne and other cities of the Rhineland came streams of German civilians seeking refuge, and this just turning of the scales has aroused no pity among the Belgians, who jump for joy when they hear British aircraft overhead. The Belgians are quick to notice signs of German disintegration. “With the exception of the coast, there are only old and tired German soldiers in Belgium. I was living in Belgium a few days ago with and under the Boche, and I tell you that the German soldiers, who were formerly smart and alert, are no longer enthusiastic. They are dull and depressed, and they complain in the streets and cafes about the length of the war.” More patriots have fallen to the bullets of firing squads in Belgium than in the whole of the last war, declared M. Delfosse. Danish Nazis to "Leave. The Stockholm newspaper “Afton Tidningen" says that the unrest and the subsequent state of emergency in tho Trondheim district in Norway are believed to have been due to the requisitioning of 220,000 cows, one-seventh of Norway’s cattle, by the Germans, for transportation to other areas of occupied Europe. The Danish Free Corps is to return to Russia on October 13 after four weeks' leave which, Berlin radio says, was granted by Ilerr Himmler in reward for bravery. [A message on October 6 stated that the Danes were waiting tensely to see whether the Danish Nazi Free Corps would return to the Russian front, when their leave ended. Their departure would be interpreted as meaning that the hour had not yet arrived for the Danish Nazi leader, Dr. Clausen, to carry out a coup establishing a political regime similar to Norway’s.] The Vichy news agency announced that a contingent of the French Volunteer Legion against Bolshevism has left for the .eastern front. A Berne dispatch quotes a report from Vichy that the Government has imposed a heavy new tax to provide a premium for French families who undertake work in Germany. A special division of the Douai Appeal Court passed sentence of death, in absentia, ou four “Communist” terrorists, and imprisoned for life a woman inn-keeper for allegedly sheltering Communists.
A Dutch captain, Jon Cornells Hendriks, editor of the auti-Nazi Dutch underground newspaper “Voorwaarts” (“Forward”), has arrived in New York after escaping from Holland. He told reporters how the Dutch underground Press publishes. “We not only have the Gestapo to fear, but also the Dutch Nazis,” he said. “If we fool them, tho others are easy.” The printers of official German propaganda also print “Voorwaarts” in the open shop, but the Germans do not know it. “Voorwaarts” was first published 21 months ago and has appeared regularly weekly ever since. All the printers are carefully-sifted members of an anti-Nazi party. For one issue newsprint was not available, and finally the underground printers bought the finest newsprint from corrupt Nail officials. The editors celebrated the occasion by sending two copies of that issue to the German Commissioner, Dr. Seyss Inquart. The ■ underground Press - publishes news which is gathered mostly by word of mouth, and also excerpts from Allied broadcasts. It exhorts the workers to slow down, and encourages sabotage. Tho size'of the paper is 8 inches by 16 inches, and its circulation is 60,000. It is dangerously distributed by trucks, trams, bicycles and even by mail. Once the circulation department used a typewriter for addressing mailed copies, whereupon the Gestapo searched every typewriter in the town and eventually found a machine the print of which matched that of tile and shot the owner. “It happened that the machine belonged to .a Dutch Nazi from whom we had borrowed it while he was off prying into our affairs,” Captain Hendriks dryly concluded.
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