SAVAGE THREATS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 September 1941, Page 5

SAVAGE THREATS

MADE BY THE GERMANS IN PARIS HOSTAGES TO BE TAKEN FROM ALL CLASSES. TERRORISM IN OCCUPIED COUNTRIES. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, September 17. As a result of the death of a German non-commissioned officer who was shot in a Paris street, the German authorities have threatened to take hostages from all classes of the Parisian populace unless the present series of attacks against German soldiers ceases. Placards posted throughout the city declare that the Germans will greatly extend the reprisals if the attacks are continued. The “Daily Mail’s” Madrid correspondent says that more trouble has broken out in the great French Renault works at Clermont Ferrand. Police under-orders to “fire without warning” guard the works, and they are continually pelted with pieces of metal. Several workers are arrested each day, which is inciting go-slow strikes. The works are at present producing entirely for the Germans, but the production is reported to be only a quarter of capacity. According to the Vichy news agency 57 Yugoslav, hostages have been shot by the Germans in Belgrade in revenge for the shooting of a German soldier. A German newspaper reports that a Pole has been condemned to death for listening to a neutral wireless broadcast and quoting a British communique on Germah aircraft losses. “The crime committed Jay this Pole,” says the newspaper, “is liable to endanger the power of resistance of the German people.” A report to Zurich from Amsterdam states that the Nazi Commissioner for the Netherlands, Dr, Seyss-In-quart, has ordered Dutch Jews to be treated similarly to German Jews. They must wear a yellow star and not leave their living quarters without police permission.