READY TO ACT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1943, Page 4

READY TO ACT

FRENCH RESISTANCE GROUPS FROM MOMENT OF ALLIED LANDING. NAZI ARREST & DEPORTATION POLICY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, May 19. French underground newspapers with circulations totalling several millions are issuing invasion instructions to French resistance groups. The instructions arc as follow:—From the moment of an Allied landing, all members of the resistance movement will be considered to be mobilised and will be supplied with arms. All economic activity must be paralysed. There must be a general strike. All Vichy police must be dealt with—imprisoned or killed. All patriots in camps and prisons must be liberated. Occupy all key posts, public buildings and radio stations. Replace all Vichy administration leaders. i? Members of the French underground movement believe that the Germans plan to arrest all males between the ages of 18 and 56 immediately the Allies land and to intern or deport them from France. Advices reaching London state that Paris is now a city of old men. Any able-bodied young Frenchmen are picked up on sight and deported to Germany. Avoiding the Gestapo drag net is the most important task of every Frenchman.