RENEWED ACTIVITY

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 232, 28 June 1944, Page 5

RENEWED ACTIVITY

Patriots In Italy And France (Received June 27, 8 p.m.) LONDON, June 27. After a few days’ pause, the Marquis m the Jura Mountains and Savoy are showing signs of renewed activity, says the Geneva correspondent of “The limes. The road over the Faucelles 1 ass and other roads north of the Jura range have been cut off, and the Lyons-Geneva railway again interrupted. A conference was held on Friday between the French and Italian Maquis and the talks were most friendly. Important measures were devised with a view to co-operation in the timing ot future operations. Private information from the Italian border shows that great anxiety Prevails in neo-fascist circles because Marsha Graziani’s army is daily dwindling and is now reduced to 70,000 men. Recruits, as soon as they are equipped, sup oft to the Italian Maquis, who are most P o 'J' er ' ful in the regions north of Como and ißergamo, also in the alpine valley®. It is rumoured, the correspondent adds that Mussolini and Farinacci, alarmed by the Allied advance in Italy, have fled to Germany. Active All Over France. The French forces.of the interior under the command of General Koenig are continuing their activities all over France, according to the French authorities in of the long-distance telephone lines from Paris, which are important to the German defence system, have been kept out of use since D-day in spite of increased precautions, which make the patriots’ task more and more dangerous. . In the lower Seme region cast of the Normandy front transformers delivering power to euemy works have been blown UP The Germans are attacking the Maquis in various mountainous parts of France, aud are using 3000 men in the Ardennes. They are stated to be making no headway anvwhere, and to have suffered heavy losses of men and equipment in several districts. They are taking an increasing number of hostages. Twenty of these have beeu shot. The French forces of the interior continue to bold certain districts in a province on the Mediterranean coast from with the Germans have failed to dislodge them. , . . ~ General de Gaulle, speaking in the French Consultative Assembly, according to an Algiers message, said that important) negotiations were successfully taking place and that others might follow shortly. In the meantime, happy results had been obtained in agreement with the Allied supreme commander regarding General Koenig’s command of the Liberation Forces in the interior of France.