SECRET SOCIETIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1941, Page 3

SECRET SOCIETIES

SPREADING IN FRANCE.

CRY OF “RESIST” BEING

RAISED.

Where is the Comite National de Salut Public, whose name recalls an organisation of the French Revolution designed to purge the nation of undesirable elements. It is everywhere and nowhere. It exists in Paris, in Provence, in Brittany, in Alsace, but no one knows where its headquarters' gre, least of all the Germans. It has a bulletin of its own called “Resistance.” “Resist, resist,” it says, “the cry of every heart not resigned to defeat. You feel isolated, alone, without arms, in the midst of a chaos of opinions, systems, seeking for the path of duty.” The bulletin goes on to tell how leaders have been found, “more! than an army in Paris alone.” Another society, whose locality of action for obvious reasons cannot be indicated, has leaders who are known to fellow members by the names of leaders of another great conspiracy in France; famous in history. They meet in strange places reached by mountain paths known only to them. This association has quite a strong religious element. During the daytime no two members ever meet in public. Nothing ;s written down, and all orders are passed from one to another by the wo- 1 men folk who meet in church. All the members of one secret society belong to an association sponsored by the Germans ,and “out Herod Herod” in clamouring for collaboration with Germany!