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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1943, Page 4

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DESTRUCTIVE SABOTW, IN FRANCE, MANY GFIIMANH «. I'llO HAZ|!i KILL. 111). SECOND EKONT AIITK'I I’A’l'lHf 111. (By Tcli'iiniph , I'ri'i.u Afi'iocliillon ' 'op.vi ll'lil) ( Recci veil Thin I ):i.y. 11.10 a,mJ LONDON, Dwmrilwr Nearly one thouiiand Goi'mntlt) and pro-Nazl official)) In Franco have been assansi noted In the last four months. The list Included 230 gendarmes, 147 guards, 152 police • agents, 30 Vichy militiamen and 150 civilians. Many were either shot or knifed. Others were garrotted. . French newspapers have published a full list of the victims, says the ‘Evening Standard’s” Lisbon correspondent. The papers report that DOO bombs have damaged ships, factorie. 1 ; and other installations. More than 150 town halls have been attacked and robbed, 18 farm houses destroyed, and 3,714 haystacks set on fire. There have been (>OO derailments or attempts to wreck railways. The reported imminence of a second front, has increased the daring of the saboteurs. Lawlessness is sweeping all districts in France, despite all efforts by the Germans and the Vichy militia to check it, adds the correspondent.