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IN SKODA ARMS WORKS IN BOHEMIA HUNDREDS OF GERMANS KILLED OR INJURED. WAVE OF STRIKES SWEEPING BELGIUM. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, September 24. The Moscow radio reports that a tremendous explosion in a Czechoslovak munition, works killed and wounded hundreds of imported German workers, and 900 were sent to hospital. Another explosion destroyed most of the ■electric power station of the factory. A report in London says that hundreds of German troops have been rushed to the great Skoda arms works, where these explosions occurred. A Czech, who has been executed for railway sabotage was the third person sentenced to death in the last 24 hours. The Moscow radio also says that a wave of strikes is sweeping Belgium, where 125.000 workers struck in one area. The production of the coal mines has decreased 36 per cent, in spite of the fact that more workers than ever are engaged. FRANCE FACING TERRIBLE WINTER. In Paris yesterday General von Stuelpnagel, commander of the German forces in France, broadcast offering a reward of £125 sterling to persons helping to capture enemy airmen or aircraft and alternatively threatened with sentence of death men who assist the aircrews and the concentration camp for women. A Berlin commentator said today that normal conditions prevail in occupied France. According to this spokesman, Admiral Darlan has thanked the German military governor of Paris for raising the curfew restrictions. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Lisbon correspondent says a responsible American who has spent a year in France on an official mission declared that the elements of resistance in unoccupied France are gathering their forces for action when the right time comes. France is facing a winter of terrible hunger, which the leaders of resistance believe will reduce the people to desperation and make them realise that nothing can be gained any longer from passiveness. The German spoliation in unoccupied France, the official said, is more and more open every day, and the Germans no longer disguise the fact that food and goods are being carried off to Germany. Both Italian and German railway trucks now come alongside the docks at Marseilles fetching cargoes from the ships. Enormous quantities of wine are going to Germany for the manufacture of commercial alcohol.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1941, Page 5

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373

GREAT EXPLOSION Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1941, Page 5

GREAT EXPLOSION Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1941, Page 5

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