NAZI TERRORISM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1941, Page 6

NAZI TERRORISM

FAILING AGAINST REVOLT & SABOTAGE IN THE OCCUPIED COUNTRIES SERBIAN WOMEN CHARGED BY TROOPS. PATRIOTS IN MANY LANDS EXECUTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, September 10. Insurrection against the Germans is still occurring throughout Europe. Despite the efforts of the German and Italian authorities to check the Serbian patriotic movement, patriots in Belgrade . grasp every opportunity to harry ’’'the Germans. Shooting is heard frequently in Belgrade’s streets, where German soldiers dare not appear at night time except in

force. Sixty hostages are threatened with execution unless a Serbian student accused of shooting a German sentry surrenders. Six hundred women assembled at the German headquarters shouting wildly for the release of the hostages. Troops charged, using truncheons and rifle butts and many women were injured. The Germans in Greece executed five Greeks, allegedly for sabotage or helping British prisoners. From Oslo, it is reported that two of the six trade union leaders charged with plotting a general strike have been shut, one sentenced to life'imprisonment and two sentenced to fifteen years’ and one to 40 years. One of those executed was Viggo Hansteen, legal adviser and a member of the executive of the Norwegian Trades Union Council.

Steel-helmeted police have been patrolling the streets of Oslo since the declaration of a state of emergency. German and Norwegian prisoners are sent to Germany weekly. The Germans have warned the Norwegians against harbouring German deserters. ” °The Free Belgian Agency reports that workers in a cartridge factory near Liege turned out over a million dud cartridges. They “forgot" to put the powder in. This was not discovered until the consignment was distributed in Germany for firing practice. The heads of the firm were arrested and a hundred workers dismissed. A German military tribunal at Liege sentenced eight persons to death and imprisoned three, including women, for alleged sabotage.