DROPPED BY PARACHUTE.

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 246, 19 October 1942, Page 3

DROPPED BY PARACHUTE.

P.A. Cable. NEW YORK, Oct. 16. The Columbla Broadcasting System reported hearing Vichy broadcast a Laval Government statement to- da.y that arms and explosives had been dropped by parachute in French territory. A list of 2990 skilled workers marked for compulsory deportation to Germany is beifig pcsted at Lyons tc-day. Ten only had volunteered when 3000 were demanded. Many workers came out on strike, and the police had to be reinforced. Vichy radio says that a military tribunal at Lyons sentenced nine people to terms of imprisonment ranging from a year to life, for endangering the security of the State. The Luxemburg Government in London has stated that the Germans shot 25 people, including postmasters, teachers, professors, town clerks and workers, when Luxemburgers proclaimed a general strike as a protest against annexation. A Wilhelmstrasse spokesman, sharply attacking the Swedish and Swiss press, declared that neutral editors writing against the New Europe would be given short shrift, and either sent to new homes in the Asian steppes, or better still, exterminated. The spokesman accused the Swedish press of violating neutrality by printing Eritish propaganda, and the Swiss press also for beginning "unseemly polemics against Germany." One Swiss paper has described the New Europe as "a child devouring a demon." The spokesman added that Germany would deal with the Swiss press later.