EXTREME TENSION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 March 1943, Page 3

EXTREME TENSION

REPORTED IN PARIS MANY STREETS BARRICADED BY NAZIS. DE GAULLIST RECRUITING CAMPAIGN. LONDON, March 9. Extreme tension continues in Paris. The Germans have barricaded many of the streets, all of which had hitherto been unprotected, says Reuter’s correspondent on the French frontier. Barracks and officers’ canteens have been protected with barbed-wire and sandbags. Two regiments of Waffen Storm Troops are to arrive in Paris at the week-end, and it is estimated that 600 German tanks are stationed in the Paris district. Vichy radio asserts that so-called de Gaullists and Communist agents are busy in the former occupied zone recruiting fighters under the name of the French Legion of Combatants. (An announcement from the Fighting French headquarters published yesterday reported raids on Germans in Lille and Paris by French guerillas ,who used hand-grenades.) The German-controlled Paris radio broadcast a police communique stating that a last chance is given to persons between the ages of 24 and 26 to register for compulsory labour. Delinquents will suffer severe penalties. The Madrid correspondent of the “Daily Mail’ says that 75 per cent of France’s industries are now engaged in war work for Germany, and some of the armament factories are working three shifts a day.