FORCE REPLACING CAJOLERY

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 16, 14 October 1942, Page 5

FORCE REPLACING CAJOLERY

Frenchmen For Reich

PATRIOTS’ AMBUSH IN PARIS

LONDON, October 12. M. Chasseigne, who is the director of Vichy’s propaganda to the workers, confirmed that the Germans have given M. Laval till October 15 to. find the 150,000 French workers for Germany. “We are facing a tragic situation,” he said. “If the required number do not volunteer, workmen of occupied France will be requisitioned and transported to where they will be most useful. The Government appeals to all young workers to volunteer. The workers have not understood the Government’s efforts on behalf of the war prisoners and France”; very few have volunteered. I entreat you to give the Government the opportunity to seize the chance which is being offered her.” The illegal French newspaper “Combat” reports that a German recruiting officer, addressing workers in a Paris factory, asked for 12 volunteers. No workers volunteered, whereupon the recruiting officer ordered the factory manager to pick out 24 men. The manager refused, and the officer then called in German troops, who marched off with 48 workers. They were not allowed to visit their homes before being eent to Germany. Paris radio broadcast an appeal from the Association of Released War Prisoners, who urged workers to volunteer, pointing out that otherwise they would be forcibly drafted without securing any benefit for France. Moscow radio reports that French patriots ambushed a column of lorries carrying German troops in a Paris suburb, killed 17 and set fire to two lorries. The pro-Axis headquarters in Nice were blown up. This was the fifteenth bomb explosion there in the last three weeks. Ammunition to Crete.

An Istanbul message states that English, New Zealand, Australian, and Greek guerrillas are waging continuous war against the Germans in Crete. British planes frequently drop loads of food and ammunition in the mountain areas where the bands are hiding. The planes also drop bombs on the Germans. The execution in Germany of five more Germans for high treason is reported from Zurich. Those executed included Juliette Kachele, aged 22, who allegedly helped the enemy by spreading propaganda. A Stockholm report says that Herr Terboven, the Nazi Commissioner in Norway, issued a proclamation suspending the state of emergency in Trondheim as from today. During the state of emergency 34 Norwegians were executed. The guerrillas in Ruthenia continue to harass Hungarian and German troops, according to a summary of their activities in September which reached London today. In the past year they have killed some thousands of German and Hungarian soldiers who were stationed, in their country to police it, or were en route to the eastern front. Three long trains filled with soldiers and munitions going to Russia was blown up last month by hand grenades and petrol bottles. Several of the guerrilla groups are led OL>y officers of the former Czechoslovak Army. Twice last month they swooped on mixed German and Hungarian commissions which were forcibly enlisting villagers for slavery in Germany and in both cases all members of the commissions were killed. Tlie Hungarians, who occupied this Czech province after Munich, have still further lowered the bread ration.