NAZI DEMANDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1942, Page 4

NAZI DEMANDS

FOR FRENCH WORKERS HUMILIATING APPEALS. AND PRESS GANG METHODS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) LONDON, October 12. < A Vichy message says M. Chasseigne, who is the director of Vichy's propaganda to workers, confirmed that the Gerifians have given Laval until October 15 to find 150,000 French workers for Germany. .“We are facing a tragic situation,” he said. "If the required number do not volunteer, workmen in occupied France will be requisitioned and transported to where they will be most useful. The Government appeals to all young workers to volunteer. The workers have not understood.the Government’s great efforts on behalf of war prisoners, and in France very few havevolunteered. I entreat you to give the Government an opportunity to seize the chance which is being offered her.” The illegal French newspaper “Combat” reports that a German recruiter, addressing workers at a Paris factory, asked for twelve volunteers, but no workers volunteered, whereupon the recruiter ordered the factory manager to pick out 24. The manager refused, and the-recruiter then called in German troops, who marched off 48. They were not allowed to visit their homes before being sent to Germany. The Paris radio broadcast an appeal from the Association of Released War Prisoners, who urged workers to volunteer, pointing out that otherwise they would be forcibly drafted, without securing any benefit for France.