STRIKE IN BELGIUM
MAINTAINED FOR TEN DAYS IN FACE OF GERMAN THREATS. AND TAKING OF HOSTAGES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) RUGBY. June 17. A Belgian strike lasting for ten days, in face of German threats and the taking of hostages, is reported by the Belgian News Agency. The Germans had requisitioned 460 workers from the Charleroi electrical construction works, whereupon the rest of the personnel refused to work and those in other factories followed their example. The Germans then arrested 400 local inhabitnts as hostages.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 June 1943, Page 4
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89STRIKE IN BELGIUM Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 June 1943, Page 4
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