SABOTAGE RIFE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20915, 15 October 1942, Page 4

SABOTAGE RIFE

CZECHS WRECK TRAIN FRENCH CROPS FIRED BOMBING IN BELGIUM (2 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 14. A German military court ordered the execution of five persons for activities against the Germans and also activity against the established order in Bohemia and Moravia. The Moscow radio reports that a German supply train of 27 trucks, carrying tanks to the Russian front, was derailed and completely wrecked between Prague and Benesov. . The number of fires in crops in France are steadily increasing, mostly ix\ occupied France. The authorities have taken measures to prevent an extension of sabotage. The Vichy radio reports a fire in Bourgenbresse, in which a large stock of timber was destroyed. The Paris radio called for a violent and brutal clean-up of the “black market” in France, declaring that steps would be tdken “against men occupying high posts who traffic in false coupons and ration books, which has caused the rationing system to go to pieces. There is organised sabotage which is actually sabotage of policy,” stated the radio announcer, who blamed the Jews and advocated hanging them.

The Berlin radio stated that the ringleader and 17 Communists were sentenced at Rennes for distributing leaflets to imprisonment for seven years.

The, Independent Belgian News Agency reported that the Germans fined Ghent £2BOO arid arrested 50 hostages as a result of a bomb explosion in a German billet.