EUROPE IN REVOLT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1941, Page 7

EUROPE IN REVOLT

INCREASING STRAIN ON NAZI .SYSTEM GENERAL STRIKE AIM IN OSLO. STERN REPRESSIVE MEASURES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 10. Evidence of the increasing strain on the whole German administrative system due to the difficulties which resistance and non-co-operation in the occupied countries place in the way of efficient economic exploitation is found -in the German and Germancontrolled newspapers and radio. In the occupied countries deliberate arson, burning of crops, destruction in factories, cutting of cables, and derailment of trains are rife. The Russian campaign has undoubtedly caused growing opposition to the Germans in Western Europe. In Norway the clash between the civil administration and the German security police recently resulted in tlie proclamation of a state of emergency., which virtually places the country under the complete control of the German military authorities. Today Stavanger radio said that Herr Terboven, Nazi leader in Norway, has declared a special state of emergency at Oslo, under which strikes are forbidden. Norwegians are obliged to remain indoors between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. Transport, except on the railways, is to close down at 7 p.m. The sale of alcoholic beverages in cinemas and theatres and at dances and public gatherings is banned. Herr Terboven adds that opposition to the decree will be broken by force. The Stockholm correspondent of the British United Press reports that strong German troop concentrations have been established round Oslo. The Swedish Press reports that a large fish factory at Bodoe has been burnt io the ground: it was tne largest factory of its kind in the north of Norway, with modern refrigerator plant, and it had been completed only recently. It has been proved that the fire was wilfully started. Fish oi \ important for the German munition industry.

A Belgian Fascist newspaper complains that even in the new organisation possessing a “constructive spirit” sabotage exists, and “in the provincial administrations it is the same. Many politicians have been dismissed, but their substitutes carry out the same policy of sabotage. From top to bottom sabotage and plotting exist, and everything is done to convert to. an element of exasperation the wisest measures taken for the people s benefit-” o In Holland a decree of Dr. beyss Inquart has cancelled the autonomous rights of all provincial and municipal councils and imposed “leaders” under his personal supervision. In Czechoslovakia and France individual local councils have suffered a similar fate. Some indication of the-strength of guerrilla warfare in the Balkans is given in an official Italian casualty list, which shows that during August 426 Italian soldiers were killed in Greece, Albania and Yugoslavia, and nearly 1000 more were wounded. Conditions in Europe are vividly illustrated by a German decree introducing the death penalty or a minimum of three years’ hard labour for anyone who destroys German waterworks, canals, railways, telegraph, or light installations; secondly, assists non-German military elements in occupied country; thirdly, transmits across the border news damaging to the German army; fourthly, organises or participates in demonstrations against Germany; and fifthly, boycotts the labour recruiting officers.

STRIKE PLANNED REASON for german action. ACCORDING TO NAZI REPORT. (Received This Day, 8.55 a.m.) OSLO, September 11. German authorities say that Oslo workers planned a general strike on September 11, which was the principal reason for the declaration of a state of emergency.