ATMOSPHERE OF TERROR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1943, Page 4

ATMOSPHERE OF TERROR

CREATED FOR GERMANS IN FRANCE

WORK OF FEW HUNDRED PATRIOTS

The bitterness of the revolt of the French against their German oppressors is daily growing more acute as Allied victories pile up. Organised resistance is becoming more expert and effective and the German is fought in the country and in the city. The spirit (hat rules is indicated in the following manifesto, signed by the “Comite Militaire du Grand Paris,” and published not long ago in Le Franc-Tireur Parisien, a clandestine paper. “From the Porte de Clignancourt to the Porte d’Orleans, from Vincennes to Neuilly, passing by way of the outskirts and the centre of Paris, with their great past of fights for liberty, at Levallois, at Asnieres, Meudon, Issy, Aubervilliers, Argenteuil, Le Bourget and elsewhere, the avenging blows of our Francs-Tireurs fall on hundreds of Bodies and Nazi officers who no longer parade with arrogance. “Look at them, Parisians! They have lost their haughty mien, they no longer moye about except escorted by armed men, but nevertheless, in spite of this show of force, struck down by our hand grenades. . . In spite of the presence of their sentinels, the Soldatenheirn, the Speisclokal are no longer places of pleasure, but of death. Our enemies quickly clean up where their dead have fallen, hide where we have passed, but terror feigns in their ranks.

“Parisian's, observe them! As soon as night comes down on the capital they start at the least sound, run with all speed at the slightest suspicious noise, often to fall beneath the blows of the Francs-Tireurs of Paris, victims of the vengeance of a people beginning to shake off the yoke. “All these acts, all this atmosphere of terror created for the Boche, are the work of a few hundred patriots, determined, whatever the cost, to avenge French honour and carry on the struggle unfalteringly until the last Boche has left the capital.

‘On every front Hitler is losing the war. He knows it. but up to the very last minute, he will carry out his plan of destruction, and his power to do sd will be the greater the longer the people of Paris delay concerted actibn. Join our ranks, multiply our activities, and it will be possible for every single one to act and help destroy the war machine of the Boche. We will purge Paris rapidly of the brown pest if all Frenchmen who are biding their time make up their mind each one to send a Boche into eternity. We will smash the teeth of the German war machine if every worker increases his sum of sabotage, for Gorman material is everywhere around us, cars, lorries, locomotives, stores, etc. It is there one should strike without delay. Our initiative must be animated by our hate against those who have killed, and are killing, our mothers, our wives and our children, who torture our comrades in arms before shooting them. ‘Partisans! Up! Attack the Boches! Your deeds will make you known to those who will give you arms. Death to the Boches-”