WAVE OF SABOTAGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 August 1942, Page 4

WAVE OF SABOTAGE

AGAIN SWEEPING OCCUPIED FRANCE MANY GERMANS KILLED OR INJURED. RAILWAY WRECKS AND OTHER EVENTS. (By Telegraph—Pi ess Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, August 13. A wave of sabotage is again, sweeping Occupied France. The Paris region and the industrial north seem particularly to be affected, says a Stockholm message. Many German soldiers were killed or wounded in an explosion following a collision between a German troop train and a fuel train on the Dcnai-Arras line. Forty-four trucks, nineteen tank cars and two engines were wrecked. A similar incident at Lille recently resulted in a hundred Germans being killed and many injured. Twelve motors ready to go to Germany were destroyed at Deriain. A main line railway embankment was blown up at Aulnay Sous Buis, north-west of Paris. Many persons were arrested and bicycles and radios were confiscated as a reprisal. A lamp factory was burnt out at Ivry Sur Seine, on the south-eastern edge of Paris ar cl the premises of the motor-car firm of Chenad Walcker and also a paint factory were burned down at Gennivilliers. The damage is estimated at 35 million francs. A German ammunition train was blown up at a railway station on the Seine Iriferieurs Department. Seven hundred hostages were arrested near Hazebrouck on the pretext that parachutists had been seen there. Patriots cut a ditch across the road at Vitry Francois, wrecked a lorry, killed one German officer and six soldiers and injured six soldiers.