FRENCH SABOTAGE

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 233, 29 June 1944, Page 5

FRENCH SABOTAGE

Germans, Cannot Cope With Railway Repairs (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 27. Sabotage is increasing in southern France, where the Germans fear an Allied landing, states an authoritative French source in London. The damage to railway lines is so widespread in that part of France that the Germans are unable to deal with all ot it, and only priority lines are being repaired. ... The railway line running between uuloz and Amberieu, a vital communication link between Kesselring’s and Rundstedt's forces has been damaged so often that the Germans, through lack of rails have had to convert it into a single track. The same source says that the destruction of an entire French village by way of reprisal has been reported. It was Oradour-sur-Glane, 45 miles north-west of Limoges, which was razed bv the Germans on June 10, four days after D-day. The scattered _ population were machinegunned and the inhabitants, 1200 persons, were killed or had to run for their lives. Sabotage by the French forces of the interior has so disorganized rail-fray traffic between Paris qnd the Swiss frontier that it is now making detours via Brussels, says a French Provisional Government communique issued from Algiers. Locks have been blown up in the canal linking the Rhine and the Rhone. The enemy is dispersing forces in all airections. seeking battle with the patriots, who retain the initiative. Severe fighting continues in the alps, where hundreds of Germans have been killed in the last few Patriots occupied the important Pyrennean town of Tarbes and withdrew after destroying factories. Important enemy forces have been immobilized in south Garonne. , , ' The Germans have launched a campaign of terror and are executing many patriot prisoners, including wounded. ,