OCCUPIED EUROPE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1941, Page 5

OCCUPIED EUROPE

MORE REPORTS OF UNREST & REVOLT PITCHED FIGHTING IN GREECE & ELSEWHERE. MUSSOLINI ABANDONS TOUR. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, October 12. Reports of unrest in many parts of Europe continue to be received. “The Times” Jerusalem correspondent says that neutral travellers from Greece related that when they left at the end of August, the whole south-west of the Peloponnese was closed to travel as the result of fighting between Italians and fragments of the Greek army who were supported by peasants. They added that Italians occupy only the interior of Greece, while the Germans retain the ports and the whole coastline. The fires breaking out in - German food stores in Denmark have worried the occupation forces for a month. Two German soldiers and a policeman were seriously injured when neighbours went to the assistance of two women who refused to hand over woollen jumpers to the soldiers. Travellers arriving at Ankara from Yugoslavia say that the Germans are patrolling by planes the railway between Belgrade and Sofia to prevent sabotage. The Swedish newspaper “Dagens Nyheter” says 30 Communists were shot in the two Yugoslavian towns of Tjuprija and Jogidina. The Russian news agency says it is reported from Berne that Mussolini's tour of Italy which was intended to arouse the Italians’ fallen spirits has proved a failure. When the Duce rode through Forli, the starting-point of the tour, the crowd yelled anti-Fascist slogans and demanded more food. Enthusiasm was also absent at Bologna and Parma. The agency adds that Mussolini intended to visit Turin and Alessandia but changed his mind when he heard that serious disturbances had broken out and returned home. A Vichy report says a military tribunal at Toulon sentenced to death Jean Merot, who was allegedly the leader of the young Communist movement in eleven departments of southern France. His accomplices received heavy terms of imprisonment. Dispatches from Norway report that 10 persons were seriously injured in a pitched battle at Mysen, near Oslo, between members of Quisling's proNazi youth organisation and 500 hostile Norwegians. Nazi soldiers aided the police in restoring order, and over 50 arrests were made.