THEY GOT THEIR MAN!

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 240, 12 October 1942, Page 5

THEY GOT THEIR MAN!

GESTAPO SHOOT DUTCH NAZI ANTI - GERMAN UNDERGROUND PRESS. EDITOR ESCAPES TO UNITED STATES.

P.A. Cable.

NEW YORK, Oct. 11.

The United Press says that a Dutchman, Captain Jon Cornelis Hendriks, editor of the anti-Nazi Dutch imderground newspaper Vorwaarts (Forward) has arrived in New York after his escape from Holland. He told reporters how the Dutch underground press published. "We not only have the Gestapo to fear, but also Dutch Nazis," he said. "If we fool them the others are easy. Printers of official German propaganda also print Voorwaarts in open shop but the Germans do not know it, "Voorwaarts was first published 21 months ago and has appeared regularly every week since," Captain Hendriks added. "All the printers are carefullv sifted members of the

anti-Nazi party. For one issue newsprint was not available, and finally the underground workers bought the finest newsprint from corrupt Nazi officials. The editors celebrated by sending two copies of that issue to the German Commissioner, Seyss Inquart. "The underground press publishes news gathered mostly by word of mouth, also excerpts from Allied broadcasts," stated. the captain. Further, it exhorts workers to slow down and encourages sabotage. The size of Voorwaarts is from eight to 16 pages and the circulation 60,000. It is dangerously distributed by trucks, trams and bicycles and even by mail. "Once the circulation department used a typewriter for addressing mailed copies, whereupon the Gestapo searched every typewriter in the town. Eventually ithe found the matching machine and shot the owner. It happened that the machine belonged to a Dutch Nazi from whom we borrowed it while he was off prying into our affairs," Captain Hendriks drily concluded.