DISORDER IN CROATIA

Southland Times, Issue 24838, 2 September 1942, Page 5

DISORDER IN CROATIA

Police Killed By Peasants LONDON, August 31. Disorder has broken out in Zagreb, the capital of the Croatian province of Yugoslavia, and in neighbouring villages following a large-scale drive by the quisling police to requisition foodstuffs. According to reports reaching the Yugoslav Government in London armed encounters have taken place in some villages between special police and peasants, in which some police have been killed and others have been taken prisoner and sentenced to death by peasant tribunals. Continued resistance to the Germans in occupied countries is indicated in messages from four countries today. It is officially announced from Prague that nine high-ranking army officers, former members of the Czechoslovak General Staff, were executed after being sentenced to death in a German People’s Court on charges of high treason against the Reich, against the New Order created in Bohemia and Moravia, and of being leaders of a secret organization. Prominent trade unionists, municipal officials, and journalists are among the 200 Norwegians who have been arrested in the past few days at Stavanger. The five Norwegian army officers recently sentenced to death were accused of murdering a quisling supporter, attempting to murder a policeman, bombing attempts against the eastern and western railway stations at Oslo last February, and also espionage for the enemy. These five and three others who were imprisoned were allegedly under the influence o' the Norwegian patriot, M. Osbjorn Sunde, for whom the Germans are hunting. Herr Schmidt, leader of the Nazis in Holland, in a speech at Amsterdam, said the Dutch should not harbour hopes of the re-establishment of Dutch sovereignty and independence after the war because Germany regards Holland as a permanent and constituent part of Germany. The Government of Slovakia, at the request of Germany, has agreed to deport within three months 20,000 Jews remaining in Slovakia. All Slovakian birth certificates are being examined throughout the country to ascertain the owner’s racial origin.