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Show Revolts Cause Unrest In Europe Revolt is stirring among Europe's Eu-rope's restless millions. From Norway to Greece, dark figures slip through the night to kill, burn, wreck and spy on the occupying oc-cupying forces. Some are caught in the ges-tapo's ges-tapo's net or by the military police. Then the firing squads tramp through the gray dawn. Or bodies dangle from the hangman's hang-man's noose. The executioner works overtime over-time to throttle this threat in the occupied countries where jnore than 120,000,000 people live under the invader's gun. But the underground revolt grows to such proportions it can not be hidden under the censor's silence. Not for a moment can Hitler relax his vigilance over the occupied oc-cupied countries, even though the occupation troops might be needed on the eastern front in the Russian campaign. The Germans defeated the armies, but they haven't crushed crush-ed the people yet. And many watch hopefully in , the belief that the Nazi-Fascist hold finally final-ly may be broken by revolution. The vignettes of violence, intrigue in-trigue and revolt coming out of Europe form a bloody pattern. NORWAY One night a Germany sentry plodded- his beat on the waterfront water-front in Oslo while the city seemed seem-ed quietly asleep. His hobnailed boots beat a steady measure. A stealthy figure moved out of the shadows. A thin, steel knife blade gleamed in the moonlight-There moonlight-There was a smothered cry, and a splash in the water. German military police found the sentry's body next morning. They couldn't find his gun. The moon hadn't risen when for 50,000 Norwegians. Steel Helmeted German troopers with Tommy guns patrolled the streets. The invaders had found it easier to overrun a country than to subdue its people. And the story of Oslo is not yet finished. FRANCE An automobile filled with German Ger-man soldiers sped down a highway high-way seemingly free of obstructions obstruc-tions . . . and suddenly turned turtle as it struck a s'.eel cable stretched across the road. A German colonel entered a Paris subway. There was a scuffle. scuf-fle. He was stabbed to death. The lives of French hostages were held forfeit for subversive acts against the Nazi troops of occupation. Trains running out of Paris duction slowed to a snail pace tvere wrecked . . . factory pro-... pro-... a Free French sympathizer tried to assassinate Pierre Laval, Nazi collaborationist, and Marcel Deaf former French air minister. minis-ter. Old Marshal Philippe Petain, France's chief of staff must have foreseen the tempest when he summoned his countrymen to collaborate willingly with Germany, Ger-many, for he said: "Frenchmen! I have grave things to tell you-For you-For the last several weeks I have felt an ill wind rising in many regions of France. Disquiet is overtaking minds; doubt is gaining gain-ing control of spirits . . ." Paris police offered a reward of one million francs (about $20,-000) $20,-000) for information leading to the arrest of railroad saboteurs. French civilian watchmen were conscripted to guard the railroads rail-roads under penalty of death if any sabotage occurred in their sector. a small boat set out irom an isolated fishing village on the west coast of. Norway and headed head-ed toward England. The three men aboard waited tensely for a warning shot from shore. None came.' They scanned the water for floating mines or Nazi patrol pa-trol boats. At dawn they watched the skies, too, for planes that might blast fhem out of the sea. They ran the gantlet to England, these three. They could have stayed, safe from the invaders who had overrun their country. But a few days later they were in their little boat headed back toward Norway. They carried with their? a radio" transmitter set to establish communictaion with England, and plans for organizing organiz-ing anti-German elements in their homeland for sabotage and revolt. The Germans rounded up 6,000 Jews with the announcement they were suspected of opposing German troops. GREECE Out of ancient Greece come stories of guerrillas and sabo-, sabo-, teurs at work. German and Italian soldiers disappear. Provisions Pro-visions are stolen. Ray ma-1 ma-1 terials for the machines of war are ruined. Forest fires consume con-sume timber which was to be cut and shipped to Germany. Athens dispatches to Belgrade report death sentences for five Greeks. One sabotaged German telephone lines in Crete, another aided two Britons to escape, and three were found in possession of weapons, it was said. Others less daring have accepted ac-cepted the line of passive resistance. This time their luck played out. A firing squad wrote the finish to their adventure. Ever since Vidkun Quising helped the Nazis in their invasion inva-sion of Norway and his name became synonymous with treason, trea-son, the Norsemen have openly I and passively fought the Germans. Ger-mans. Once a bomb exploded near Quisling' but he escaped injury. Street fighting broke out in many towns. German soldiers were assaulted. as-saulted. Fires flamed mysteriously mysteri-ously in buildingis housing German Ger-man equipment. Workers sabotaged plants producing war materials. Provincial officials resigned' re-signed' refusing to follow Quisling Quis-ling edicts. The situation rushed to a climax cli-max last week when Joseph Ter-boven' Ter-boven' German commissioner for Norway' clamped Oslo and its environs under civil siege. Death or imprisonment to those who opposed the Nazis! And no appeal. ap-peal. Oslo became a virtual prison THE NETHERLANDS A big RAF bomber headed out across the Channel from England Eng-land with a cargo labeled "Berlin." "Ber-lin." Ceavy cloud formations blanketed the coast-line and for a time the boys feared their objective ob-jective would be hidden. But the weather cleared before they reached Berlin. Searchlights held them in a cone of light, anti-aircraft shells burst in little puffs. The fighters fight-ers came up to meet them. They unloaded their bombs and watched the explosions below and then set out for home. A German fighter sent a bullet into one of the motors and it conked out. The pilot brought the plane down in a field in Holland. The crew anticipated capture and interment when three men ran toward them. But they were Dutchmen loyal to their queen. They gave' the fliers shelter, clothing, food and money and bid them godspeed. The Dutchmen weren't so lucky when the Nazis discovered what they had done. THE BALKANS The Yugoslavs never had a chance against Hitler's Stukas and mechanzied divisions, but in the rugged hills the natives refuse to give up the fight even though their armies were crushed. A correspondent driven before the German invasion came upon the remnant of an army division, burying weapons and ammunition. ammuni-tion. "Why are you burying your guns?" he asked. "We'll return one day and have need of them," was the answer. And that day seems to have arrived. Bands of hardy mountaineers moun-taineers are waging guerilla warfare in the Balkans, making sudden, fierce forays against the invaders and then retreating to their hideouts. Firing squads have executed hundreds, but the revolt continues. contin-ues. From Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungan', too, come reports of disorder. The government of Pro-Nazi Pro-Nazi General Ion Antonescu broadcast that 500 "Jewish Communists' Com-munists' had b;cn executed for sniping at German and Rumanian troops. The general reportedly issued a decree that 20 Jewish and five non-Jewish Communists would be slain for every single act of Sabotage in Rumania attributable at-tributable to Communists. And so the underground battle of the people rages in Europe, sometimes flaring to the surface, always seething. |