NOT YET BROKEN

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20876, 31 August 1942, Page 5

NOT YET BROKEN

RESISTANCE TO NAZIS OCCUPIED TERRITORY MANY DEATH SENTENCES (3 p.m.) LONDON. Aug. 28. Continued resistance-to r the Germans in occupied countries is indicated in messages from four countries to'-day. It is officially announced -in Prague that nine high-ranking army officers, former members of the Czechoslovak general staff, were executed after they had been sentenced-to death by’the German -People’s Court on charges of high treason against the Reich, against the new order created in 'Bohemia and Moravia, and : as leaders '-of a secret organisation. Prominent trade unionists, municipal officials, and journalists were among 200 Norwegians arrested in the past few days at Stavangar. Five Norwegian’ army- officers who were sentenced to death were accused of murdering a Quislingist, attempting to j murder a policeman, bombing attempts against the eastern and western railway stations in Oslo last February, and also espionage for the enemy. * These five and three others imprisoned -were allegedly under the influence of the patriot, Osbjorn Sunde, for whom the Germans are hunting. Two persons were killed and 27 wounded when a bomb was thrown in a Paris cinema during the showing of an anti-Semitic film. Herr Schmidt, the leader of the Nazis in Holland, in a speech in Amsterdam. said that the Dutch should rtot'harbour hODes of the re-establisn-ment of Dutch sovereignty and independence after the war, because Germany regards Holland as a permanent constituent part of Germany.