DRASTIC NAZI ORDER

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 21, 20 October 1942, Page 5

DRASTIC NAZI ORDER

No Social Contact With Danes LONDON, October 18. General Haunecke, the new German military commander in Denmark, has forbidden German officers to have any social contact with Danes. This regulation is being applied so drastically that it is even breaking up families in cases of mixed marriages. The Danish authorities have banned certain coastal areas for fishing and anchoring. Many workers have been arrested a ter new acts of sabotage in several industrial centres in the neighbourhood ot Oslo, in Norway. . The German Secretary ot State, Dr. Frank, speaking at the renaming ot the Mohlau district of Prague as “Reinhard Heydrich Embankment,” said: ’ Ancient history and National Socialism alike recognize that Bohemia and Moravia cannot exist without the Reich. Our tusk is to win back both provinces, luental.y and spiritually, for the Reich. The hie and deeds of Heydrich should be au admonition for the Czechs to take heed and mend their ways. “Blood-Guilty” Czechs. “How the Czechs behave now will decide their fate. The blood-guiltiness which burdens the Czechs is so vast that it will only be expiated when Heydrich s political testament is executed. If we have dealt severely with the Czech educated classes, it is because 90 per cent.. of the enemies of the Reich belong to these classes.” According to Vichy radio, Herr Frank also said that close relatives of Czech agitators who have taken refuge in London have been rounded up and interned in concentration camps. “I warn the Czechs against the new appeals to insurrection and sabotage that are now being launched from London.'’ be said. Fifteen Dutchmen from The Hague were taken as hostages and stmt for recent sabotage. Dutchmen living in the province of Zeeland and in the greater part ot northern Holland and in the neighbourhood of the coastal fortifications, have been ordered to evacuate their homes.