Show I It t I Tide of Unrest Sweeps Occupied Europe Serbia Under Martial Law France Norway Uncertainty Continues BERN Switzerland Oct 21 UP All P-All All Serbia was reported under martial law Wednesday as a tide of unrest and uncertainty continued to sweep occupied Europe from Norway to Fr France nce and the Balkans Private advices from France pictured pictured pic pie that unhappy land as entering entering entering enter enter- ing upon her most critical period since the 1940 armistice with 11 days remaining to Chief of Government Government Government Gov Gov- Pierre Laval before Defore he is expected to try compulsion to meet Adolf Hitler's demands for French workers Martial law was decreed by the puppet Serbian government at Belgrade said a Budapest dispatch dispatch dispatch dis dis- dis- dis patch to the Basler Easier after the nazi military commander in Serbia General Bader announced announced announced an an- numerous arrests had been made because insurgents had attempted to organize a revolt against occupation authorities The Basel socialist newspaper Arbeiter recently reported report report- cd ed that the gestapo had put to death to Serbs who wh plotted a revolt The decree declared that even the defeat in defeat war had not had so serious cons consequences c for the coun country uri uri try as had the attempt at revolt Swedish newspaper correspondents correspondents correspondents dents reported from Norway according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to the Swiss Telegraph agency that Vidkun Quisling had ordered 25 more clergymen to leave their homes as a result of a pastoral pastoral pas pas- toral letter read in Norwegian pulpits pulpits pulpits pul pul- pits calling latest Quisling measures measures measures mea mea- a new attempt against liberty liberty liberty lib erty of the church The period to November 1 I private private vate advices from unoccupied France said represents the extension extension extension exten exten- sion of time set by Berlin for fulfillment fulfillment ful ful- ful- ful of its its' labor demands for volunteer workers It also is the period informed French observers said they b be believed bc- bc r which will demonstrate whether Laval could hope to cling Continued on Page Four Column Six UNREST SWEEPS OVER EUROPE Continued Scorn from Page One to o his position as chiet of government government government govern govern- ment In the face of persistent although though thus far scattered These observers who would not S permit their names to be used said laid that popular resentment over wor vork conscription Increasing agitation agi agi- tation atlon jn In fl axis axia quarters over the question of ot whether Dal Dakar ar would be e Involved in an African often offen- sive Ive and revival of discussions of the ic dangers of new allied landings along long the channel all combined to tomake tomake tomake make Laval's position d difficult Reports reaching Bern said Admiral Admiral Admiral Ad Ad- miral Jean Darlan commander in chief hief of Frances France's land sea flea and air ir forces was expected to leave for or Dakar Thursday The Vichy radio reported that Laval arrived I in Paris Wednesday Wednesday Wednes- Wednes day ay morning and summoned the provisional prefects of the occupied pled pied lied zone who it was announced earlier would be charged with enforcing enforcing en- en forcing labor conscription In his radio speech Tuesday night In which he renewed his appeal for Frenchmen to go to work for the Germans he announced announced an an- an agreement for a levy upon each factory which will be obliged bilged to furnish a certain number number numer num- num ber er of workmen This levy he said had been agreed upon by his hia government out of apprehension lest measures measures mea- mea ures of ot constraint be applied to France Trance He referred to but did not specify specify spec spec- fy the Lyon strikes with a declaration dec dec- that his government would not tolerate individual resistance group agitation or resistance of I those hose r remaining deaf to his or or- der den Laval gave what was Interpreted as a hint at Africa and the possibility possibility pos pos- of German assistance if it fighting should occur for Fren French h possessions when he said he was wag thinking thinking thinking a lot lot of of the French Trench empire and this thinking had md prompted his actions But he did not develop the African African Af Al- rican theme or a warning that France Trance would side with the axis there here something inspired axis-inspired dispatches dis dis- patches latches from Paris had predicted Laval's speech was shortened and it was reported these phases were deleted in discussions in Vichy in which Marshal Petain chief of ot state presumably had a hand shortly before the broadcast broadcast broadcast broad broad- cast time |