WORKERS FOR GERMANY

Evening Star, Issue 24324, 13 October 1942, Page 3

WORKERS FOR GERMANY

PRESSURE ON LAVAL (Rcc. 12.40 p.m.) LONDON, October 12. • A Vichy message says that M. Chasseigue, who is director of Vichy’s propaganda to workers, confirmed that the Germans had given Laval until October 15 to find 150,000 French workers for Germany. “We are facing a tragic situation,” he said. “If the required number do not volunteer, workmen in occupied France will bo requisitioned and transported to where they will be most useful. The Governmeat appeals to all young workers to volunteer. The workers have not understood the Government’s great efforts on behalf of war prisoners and France. Very few have volunteered. I entreat you to give the Government the opportunity to seize the chance which is being offered her.” The illegal French newspaper ‘ Combat ’ reports that a German recruiter, addressing workers in a Paris factory, asked for 12 volunteers. No workers volunteered, whereupon -the recruiter ordered the factory manager to pick out 24 men. The manager refused, and the recruiter then called in German troops, who marched off 48. They were not allowed to visit their homes before being sent to Germany. The Paris radio broadcast a'n appeal from the Association of Released War Prisoners, who urged the workers' to ■volunteer, pointing out that otherwise they would be forcibly drafted without for France.

U.S. TROOPS IN SOUTH AFRICA LONDON, October 13. It has been disclosed in. London that United States troops recently arrived in South Africa.