Beaten Nations Still Refuse To Knuckle Under

Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1942, Page 3

Beaten Nations Still Refuse To Knuckle Under

Rec. 6.30 p.m. London, Aug. 29. Continued resistance to the Germans in the occupied countries is indicated in messages from four ciuntries to-day. It is officially announced at Prague that nine high-ranking army officers, former members of the Czechoslovak general staff, were executed after being sentenced to death by a 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 sentenced to death were accused of murdering a Quislingist, attempting to murder a policeman, bombing attempts against the eastern and western railway stations at Oslo last February, and espionage for the enemy. These five and three others sent to prison were allegedly under the influence of the patriot Asbjorn Sunde, for whom the Germans are hunting. Two were killed and 27 wounded when a bomb was thrown at a Paris cinema during the showing of an anti-Semitic film. Herr Schmidt, leader of the Nazis in Holland, in a speech at Amsterdam said , the Dutch should not harbour hopes of re-establishment of Dutch sovereignty and independence after the war because Germany regards Holland as a permalfent constituent part of Germany.