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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 10, 1941
SPIRITUALLY - UNCONQUERED PULISH NAT JON
NAZI COLUMN
ANNIHILATED IN VILLAGE AMBUSH
A BEARDED man limped into the London offi- ces of the "Sunday Chronicle" recently and asked to see the Editor.
He was a Pole who had just arrived in England after a desperate escape from Nazi-ridden Poland by a secret route through German-occupied territor- ies.
He brought a grim story of how a militarily vanquished but spiritually unconquered nation is fighting back against barbaric oppressors.
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"Just before I left Devera) weeks ago," he said, "I saw guerilla band ambush and slaughter a German transport unit near
village in the South-West of the 'General Government.' "When the Nazis heard of
The steamship service on transport's fale they rushed a Mekong River, suspended sine: regiment of infantry to the scene the outbreak of the Thai-French of the ambush. They shot every Indo-China border dispute, will be man on the spot, no matter what reopened June 10, it was his age.
officially announced in Hanoi yes- terday.
the
"Then they set fire to all houses in the district and turned machine- guns on women and children they tried to get out.
"Only three women escaped out of the whole population-and they considered themselves unlucky,
"This was no unusual occur- rence," continued the Pole. "For weeks on end there would be no one day in which no serious acts of sabotage occcurred. In my dis- trict shots were to be heard In the woods every night. Next morning German soldiers would be delivered to hospitals or mor- tuaries.
Reprisals
"Every act of sabotage or gueril- la warfare was followed by hor- rible reprisals on the part of the Germans.
"In one district a train car- rying, among other things, ex-
with gas, was derailed. Great
on
the
Simultaneously a Government- subsidised line between Savanna- ket and Hweisai, on the
upper reaches of the Mekong, will inaugurated.-Reuter.
be
HEBRIDES
TO MARKET SEABIRDS' EGGS
Lonely Hebridean Isles, where sea-birds nest in thousands, are to be visited this season by egg-gather- ing expeditions of crofters and fisher-
men.
Seo-gulls' eggs fetched up to 2s. a dozen in the London market in peace-time. They are said to be ideal for cake- making.
Imperious Exigency Of War
AFTER A CONFERENCE between M.
plosives and steel flanks filled Henry Haye, the Vichy Ambassador, and Mr. damage was caused, and 150 Cordell Hull, it was learned at the State young Poles were arrested
afterwards.
in
the nearest village Immediately Department yesterday that the U.S. Govern- "They were charged with sabot-ment found no evidence to warrant a change in its critical view of Franco-German colla- According to the "Sunday Chronicle's" first-hand informant boration.
age and executed at once."
the Nazi authorities have become| so worried at the shooting of Ger- mans and the ambushing of Ger-
man transports, that they recent ly Issued new orders for dealing
with sabotage,
Blind Injustice
By these orders the populations
As regards the British entry into Syria, it was pointed out in informed quarters that the French did not defend Syria against the Ger- mans who are reported to have used it as a base for air operations against the British in
of villages nearest to the scenes of Iraq. "accidents" are made "collectively The question now arises, accord-: responsible" at courts-martial
ing to these sources, as regards formed on the spot at a moment's the French attitude towards the notice.
The inevitable executions fol- low the inevitable verdicts outside the court.
Just
But the saboteure and guerll las fight on,
British,
The Allied entry into Syria was
PATIENTS
justified by Vichy's determination IN MIX-UP
actively to assist Germany, say's the "Washington Post."
The paper says: "If ever Nel- son's advice, that the boldest mea-
Family of Edward
The underground movement is particularly strong
among the
sures are the safest, was applicable Dean, of Stonard Road, workers of the industrial districts. It is now. The road to Iran and
Goering has shifted many of his india lies through Syria, and Bri- Palmer's Green, N., are to production centres eastwards in tain has no option but to take time have a reunion to cele- an attempt to get away from the by the forelock and get athwart brate a mix-up of hospital R.A.F. bombers, but he is ham-it"
pered just as much by the work- Imperious Exigency records which threatened
ers themselves when moving to
Poland.
Unfortunate Polish engineers are ials that German ground troops
The paper describes Vichy's den- tragedy and turned to joy. held responsible for any fall in are in Syria as possibly right but It began when Edward's output, and many executions have disingenuous in view of the num- mother, Mrs. Arthur Dean, of ber of "tourists" who have already Essex Street, London, was ad- mitted to a hospital with delayed gone. in..
From
taken place in Polish Silesia,
The Pro-Nazi
"In one factory in Skarzysk,”-- the Polish visitor went on, "a terror-stricken chief engineer be- gan to push forward the work on certain important; plants as the Nazis demanded. He never fin ished that job,rodnog da
"He was walking about the pre- mises one day when'a 'loosë' desk fell from a window on top of his | head. · He died.
"It was a pity, for the man
a military standpoint shock after their house had been the British and Free French bombed. With other patients, she Rction In Syria is. "absolutely was evacuated to the country, Justified and corresponded to the00 Imperious exigency of war.” ~ This view was expressed yes- terday by Portugual's leading military commentator, Major
"O. Seculo." Alexander de Boruis, writing in
Portuguese Understanding
was a Pole, But he was ready! The focilities granted in Syria
Then her family received. police call to go to the hospital as she was dangerously: Jil. Puzzled and shocked, they rushed fo' the hospital.
They knew immediately the heavily bandaged figure, in the bed was not Mrs. Dean. But the records said it was Mrs. Dean, and gave her address.
to deal with the Germans in to the German Air Force during kasays
stead of rasinting them. What the campaign against Rashid All Then the mystery was solved. elen, could the workers dózist must be considered the limit of The patient: was a Mrs.
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enginee collectiv cident and
been Pola
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