REVOLT IN FRANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1942, Page 3

REVOLT IN FRANCE

AGAINST LAVAL & NAZIS ATTACKS & STRIKES SPREADING MANY KILLED OR INJURED IN RIOTS. GERMANS COMBING FACTORIES FOR WORKERS. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) ( y § LONDON, October 16. Assassinations and attacks' on Germans and German sympathisers are spreading in occupied France, according to reports reaching Vichy. There have been many deaths and a large number of people injured in riots and disturbances. Following upon the serious disorders in Lyons (unoccupied France), strikes arc also spreading. Reports from Paris state that sabotage is continuing throughout the country, crops, grain and storehouses being burned. The Germans are now combing every factory in France for skilled workers. Employers have been instructed to prepare batches, including engineers and works managers, in the hope that the present resistance to the departure of men to Germany may be overcome if the men from the same factory work together in Germany. The Swiss newspaper “Tribune de Lausanne,” says: “Feeling is running very high. The Laval Government’s attempts to provide Germany with manpower is meeting with tenacious opposition, which it would be foolish to ignore if the situation among our neighbours beyond the Jura is sensibly judged.”