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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 28, 1941.

CRISIS IN FRANCE

Anti-German Spirit Grows Rapidly Acute

RUSSIANS

COUNTER-ATTACK ON DNIEPER

According to Q Budapest message to the Vichy news agency last night the Russian troops have lounched counter-at- tocks "with all their available forces" on the lower Dnieper River battlefront.

The Hungarians

claim that so for all have been repulsed. --- Reuter.

Tension In Occupied Area

"THE SITUATION IN THE OCCUPIED ZONE IN FRANCE HAS GROWN DRAMATI- CALLY ACUTE IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS,” SAYS THE BASLE NEWSPAPER “NATIONAL ZEITUNG."

"Anti-German demonstrations called 'Communist' by the occupying power and the French police authorities, acts of sabot- age against traffic, and railway accidents, the murder of a German officer, mass arrests of thousands of alleged Communists, estab- OIL TANKER lishment of special tribunals by the French Government, German military commanders' threats to shoot hostages should fresh sabot- THE OPERATION OF ALL age occur — a mere enumeration of these BEEN BROUGHT UNDER GOV- events provides speaking evidence of the ERNMENT DIRECTIO N❘ state of tension that has been reached. THROUGH THE CREATION OF

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but the Board would pool ship The Board will co-ordinate their and direct operations with a view: allocation and utilisa'ion.

to ensuring greater efficiency.— no Reuter,

An official stated there is

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"It has become the central pro-

but it has its roots above all in blem of French internal politics external poll'ics.”

Commenting on the increased Communist activity, due to the outbreak of war with Russia, the article says: "The Communists used the war period in the first year af er the armistice to build up a well-camouflaged illegal or-

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The writer ascribes this to the inefficiency of the French police mass measures compared with the "refined. individualised methods of the Germans.”

Old Trick

The paper comments: "The mass nature of the arrests in is attempting to give the Germans Paris tempts one to believe Paris]

proof of their energy rather than follow any definite purpose."

Referring to the appeal by Gen-

eral von Stuelpnagel, Comman- der-in-Chief of the German army in France, which put Germano-

phobia on the same footing as

Communism, the article says: "It is an old trick to call any opposi-

tion Communist.

"At present in occupied France practically all supporters of the național resistance idea not yet reconciled to defeat and who op-. pose any form of victor power are regarded as Communists.”

Collaboration

Adding that this applies in the widest sense to the threat to shoot hostages, the paper draws attention to a "highly interesting sentence" in the German public notice, which illustrates the close collaboration between the Ger- man and French authorities.

The notice mentiona that "not only prisoners in the hands of the German military au- thorities but also those placed at the Germans' disposal by other official sources.”

The paper says: "This can only mean that prisoners in the hands. of the French police are regard- ed by the German authorities as hostages and will be shot if sabo- tage continues;

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just as it can at present, .deal with parallel phenomena.in, Norway.. Holland and Serbia.. "But the hopes held in a few German circles that the French might be made allies appear hard- The prefix: apeclat" to telegrama is “Germany in certainly strongly capable of fulfilment at a used by the "Sunday Herald" "and enough to suppress France, time when the shooting of host. "China Mall" to indicate news which however muttering and hostile, nges is threatened."--Reutor.

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