UNITED FOR SABOTAGE

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21189, 12 August 1940, Page 7

UNITED FOR SABOTAGE

WHOLE CZECH NATION FAMINE AND SUFFERING DETERMINED ON LIBERATION (United Press ASan.—Elec. Tel. Copyrignt) LONDON, Aug. 11 A representative of the Daily Express interviewed the Czech spokesman in London, who stated that, in spite of the presence of 300,000 German soldiers and tens of thousands of members of the Gestapo, the whole Czech nation was united for sabotage. Germans punished many, but the movement was too widespread to be suppressed. The quality and rate of all output was considerably lowered, particularly in the arms industries. “ We received full information regarding important factories and invitations to the Royal Air Force to bomb them,” he said. 44 Our people know they will suffer in air raids, but they welcome them as heralding liberation. For the same reason famine is their friend.” On a high windswept down in the Home Counties, Czech, Norwegian, Dutch and Belgian officers have given a demonstration of the types of arms these soldiers will use in the coming decisive battles for world freedom. Unlike the French, for whom French arms brought back from Norway are available, many of these other soldiers of the Allied cause arrived in England without equipment, and will have to be refitted with those arms used by the British Army. The Czech soldiers are especially pleased to be armed again with tke Bren gun, to which they are well used and which they hold in high regard. General Freicher, who commands the Norwegian forces, is especially impressed with the Vickers heavy machine gun.