OCCUPIED EUROPE

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

OCCUPIED EUROPE

ACTIVITIES BY PATRIOTS (Eec. 11.50 a.ra.) LONDON, Oct. 12. Activities by patriots against the German occupation authorities emphasised in messages from several European countries to-day. The Moscow radio repoi’ts that French patriots ambushed a column of lorries carrying German troops in a Paris suburb, killed 17,_ and set fire to two lorries. Pro-Axis headquarters in Nice were blown up. This was the fifteenth bomb explosion there in the last throe weeks. The German,' nave offered a reward of 10,000 marks for information about two cyclists who at night-time shot dead the Nazi farm leader, Schwarz, 1 also wounded the local German police chief, Domreh, in the Koscierzyna district in Poland. Belgian Government circles in London state that the Germans have published the names of 122 Belgian patriots executed between April, 1941. and July, 1942. Many others have been executed whose identity is not • revealed. An Istanbul message states that English, New Zealand, Australian, and Greek guerrillas are waging a continuous war against the Germans in Crete. British planes frequently drop loads of food and ammunition in the mountain areas where the bands are hiding. They, also drop bombs on the Germans. The execution in Germany of five more Germans for high treason is reported from Zurich. Those executed included Juliette Kaohele. aged 22, who it is alleged, helped the enemy by spreading enemy propaganda.