NAZI VENGEANCE
97 Frenchmen Shot
LONDON, May !). Details of mass murder at Ascq, which is a little town near Lille, are revealed by the “Gazette de Lausanne.” A special correspondent of the paper says that Partisans are numerous in Ascq. A German military train was derailed on May 3 and 20 Germans were killed. The Germans arrested 97 persins haphazard in houses, streets, and fields, and executed them, without explanation, on the order of a German officer. The regional prefect resigned, and the people’s indignation was so great that Vichy feared an uprising. Laval intervened, expressing the belief that the German Command would repress the “bloody initiative of an officer who seems to have lost his reason.”
The correspondent adds that attacks against Germans and communications have increased since last month. Thousands of workers have vowed vengeance, and the resistance chiefs are appealing to the Partisans to wait for the right moment to strike.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 191, 11 May 1944, Page 5
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154NAZI VENGEANCE Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 191, 11 May 1944, Page 5
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