| Show 10 More Terrorists Face Death In Nazi Reprisals on French f By United Press Ten more French terrorists were to be executed Thursday y yat at Romorantin in occupied France in reprisal for an attack on a single German soldier I Forty Frenchmen were shot in reprisal executions in occupied France Wednesday Thirty were executed at Caen and the others at Romorantin 1 Sabotage of a German munitions train at Vire south of Cherbourg disclosed that French civilians were being forced to ride on such trains as hostages Twenty-one Twenty Frenchmen were killed when the train exploded after being derailed There was no indication how many Germans died Parachutists Escape I Three parachutists who landed at Vire shortly before the train was wrecked escaped the Germans who conducted a a. house to house search It was possible that they might have dropped from British planes which have been Deen ranging over occupied France In western Normandy occupation occupation occupation tion authorities ordered a general 7 p p. p m m. curfew hoping to check terrorism by keeping the French indoors Radio Berlin announced that I Reinhardt Heydrich deputy chief of the gestapo who had been appointed appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed protector of Bohemia and Moravia to check terrorism In Slovakia Czecho arrived unexpectedly unexpectedly unexpectedly in Paris Pans Tuesday He Heis Heis Heis is known as brutally ruthless stopping stopping stopping stop stop- ping at nothing Another German broadcast said 79 members of a clandestine Netherlands Netherlands Netherlands Neth Neth- erlands organization had been sentenced sentenced sentenced sen sen- to death for aiding and abetting enemy espionage illegal possession of arms and explosives or breach of officers' officers parole Officers Withdraw Pledge Departing from its usual trend radio Berlin admitted that these Dutchmen were not communists nor antisocial Instead they were former officers and end reserve officers officers officers cers of the Dutch army and the Germans were indignant that they had broken their word of honor pledged when the armistice was concluded that they would not oppose the German armed forces Some of these officers thought they ought to withdraw their word I of honor and notified the German I authorities of ot their intentions the I broadcast said They were placed in a prisoners' prisoners war camp The German authorities recognized this attitude as frank and sincere contrasting contrasting contrasting con con- it with the attitude of those thoe Dutch officers who not only violated the most rudimentary of ot international rules but did not shrink from breaking their word of honor Sabotage on Increase Sabotage was on the Increase in Belgium too A transformer station station station sta sta- sta- sta tion was wrecked at the important Krupp armament works near Brussels Brussels Brussels Brus Brus- sels and several cranes were damaged damaged damaged dam dam- aged at the locks of the Antwerp canalIn canal In Germany Adolf Hitler appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed an armament council to speed production of material for his forces The powers of th the council were not specified Observers recalled that only last fall Hitler said I was able to order order order or or- der suspension of further production production production tion because there is no enemy In Inthe inthe inthe the world we could not beat with our present stock of ammunition In Italy Benito Mussolini apI appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap I pointed himself lord chief justice of Italy and received a new codification codification codi codi- I of Italian law which he said would be called the Mussolini Musso lini lin laws and would be the forerunner forerunner forerunner fore runner and guarantee of our victory vic vic- tory |
