WORKERS STRIKE AT LYONS

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 18, 16 October 1942, Page 5

WORKERS STRIKE AT LYONS

Labour Recruitment Protest GERMAN ULTIMATUM LONDON, October 15. Workers in Lyons, in unoccupied France, have come out on strike as a protest against M. Laval’s efforts to send them to. Germany. Only last week the mayor of Lyons was arrested on Laval’s orders. [With a population of over half a million, Lyons .it? an important industrial and commercial centre.] Laval was recently informed by the Reich that compulsion would be used if 150,000 French workers did not volunteer for Germany by today. Now he has been publicly given another 16 days to try again. The indemnity payable by France to Germany during the first half of 19-12 amounted to about £315,000,000,- according to a statement iu the House of Commons by Mr. Dingle Foot. Of this sum probably £100,000,000 was spent on the upkeep of Germany’s army of occupation.

EUROPE’S HUNGRIEST WINTER AHEAD Why Reich Gets More Meat (Received October 15, 9.35 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 14. Axis-dominated Europe faces the hungriest winter in modern history, according to the indications available to the Agriculture Department, says the Washington correspondent of the “Wall Street Journal.” Experts estimate that the wheat and rye output is 15 per cent, less than last year, and the crops in Germancontrolled Russia are insufficient to provide the additional 10,900,000 tons of grain that will be needed for maintaining the bread ration. Therefore fodder grain must be diverted from the livestock, which will result in increased slaughtering in 1942-43. . Making a virtue of necessity, the Nazis have .boosted the German meat ration, and British and American experts say that the emergency slaughtering, rather than FieldMarshal Goering’s fairy tales about an improved food situation, explains the increased meat allowance. The Ukraine has also bitterly disappointed the Nazis because the harvest lust year was 50 per.cent, below the normal, find this year it is expected to be even less. Germany will obtain there only 200,000 to 300,000 tons of grain, which will be just enough to cover half the needs of the occupation army. GREEK GUERRILLAS WIDEN SCOPE Aiding Mikhailovitch LONDON, October 14. A high reward is offered for the capture of a man who fired two shots at the Slovak President, Dr. Tiso, when he was giving the Nazi salute. One bullet pierced Tiso’s sleeve. Many arrests were made, but the assailant has not yet been found, says a dispatch from the German frontier. Guerrillas operating in the region pt Castoria, Florina, and Koritza, in Greece, have joined up with General Mikhnilovitch’s Yugoslav patriots. Their combined bands are continually inflicting losses on the Germans and Italians. The Greeks are dealing mercilessly with traitors and those collaborating with the occupying forces. Many of these .have been shot and their bodies nailed to trees under notices anouncing the same fate for all who betray their country. Greek circles in London say that 5000 Greeks are fighting in Buigarianoccupied Macedonia, and from 2000 to 3000 in Crete. The Albanians are increasingly hostile to the Italians. They are staging demonstrations iu towns aud villages, frequently under the leadership of women and committing sabotage throughout, the country. The Albanians, in the oilfields region of Kuschovh, attacked Italian guards and forced the Italians to retreat, leaving 110 dead. Guerrillas drove the Italians out of the Skrapar region iu South Albania, inflicting considerable casualties. Great Yugoslav Record. Yugoslav circles in Ankara reveal that Yugoslavs, in six weeks to the.end of August, killed 6000 members of Italian armoured divisions, wounded 9000, and captured heavy artillery. Twenty per cent, of the guerrillas are women. ■ The Independent Belgian news agency reported that the Germans fined Ghent £2BOO and arrested 50 hostages as a result of a bomb explosion in a German billet. Moscow radio reports that a German supply train of 27 trucks, which was carrying tanks to the Russian front, was derailed aiid completely wrecked between Prague and Bcnesov. It is officially stated in Moscow that Russian war prisoners at a camp at Pskov, west Russia, who were infected with typhus, were buried alive. The Russian prisoners work 16 hours a day, and are fed ou broth from rotten vegetables. Those who fall exhausted are shot.

The number of fires in crops iu France is steadily increasing, mostly in occupied France. The authorities have taken measures to prevent the extension of sabotage.