CROAT REVOLT REPORTED

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 19, 17 October 1942, Page 7

CROAT REVOLT REPORTED

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LYONS WORKERS TO BE DEPORTED

(By Telegraph.—-Press Assn.— Copyright.) (Received October 16, 9 p.m.) BERNE, October 15. Four thousand followers of Dr. Matchek, former Vice-Premier of Yugoslavia and leader of the Croat Peasant League, are reported to have revolted against the quisling Government led by Dr. Pavelitch. Fighting is now stated to be raging in Croatia, independently of General Mikhailovitch’s guerrilla forces. One more German and an Austrian have been executed in Germany for espionage, and helping reconstruct Communist parties. So ' far, 95 executions, completed or pending, have been mentioned since September 10 by the Germans in Germany and Austria. A list of 2990 skilled workers marked for compulsory deportation to Germany is being posted at Lyons today. Ten only had volunteered when 3000 were demanded. Many workers came out on strike and the police had to be reinforced. Vichy radio Says that a military tribunal in Lyons sentenced nine people' to terms of imprisonment, ranging from one year to life for endangering the security of the State. Executions in Luxemburg. The Luxemburg Government in London stated that the Germans shot 25 persons, including postmasters, teachers, professors, town clerks, and workers when the Luxemburgers proclaimed a general strike as a protest against the annexation of the grand duchy. A Wilhelmstrasse spokesman,' sharply attacking the Swedish and Swiss Press, declared that neutral editors writing against the new Europe would be given short shrift and either sent to new homes in the Asian steppes, or better still exterminated. The spokesman accused the Swedish Press of violating neutrality by printing British propaganda. The Swiss Press, he said, was also beginning “unseemly polemics against Germany.” One Swiss paper had described the new Europe as a “child-de-vouring demon.” The spokesman added that Germany would deal with the Swiss Press later.