Evening star., 1941-10-04
German Ponzer Force Reported
Moving to QueII Serb Revolt;
Reds Open Big Attacks in South
Division Advancing
Toward Belgrade;
Planes Bomb Towns
BY the Associated Press.

Planes Bomb Towns
By the Associated Press.
The Germans were reported
taking drastic steps today t
suppress opposition to their rule
of former Yugoslavia and they
ran into fresh trouble with theil
foes In Norway and Belgium.
An entire German mechanical
division-about 10000 men-was re-
Mably reported in Zagreb. Croatia, to
be moving slowly through Southern
Serbia toward Belgrade, old capital
Of Yugoslavia, to mop up Serb guer-
rilla bands. The German Air Force
cooperating with the drive, was said
10 have bombed Leskovac and Nish-
unka.
Serbia's industrial situation is
especially serious on account of q
lack of coal. This shortage is re-
ported due to sabotage as we'll as
German strafing and bombing. Pre-
war production was 125,000 tons
monthly. 1t has now dropped to
$4,000 tons.
CranL RnyoIt SunnroSSod
Rebellious Greeks who invaded the
Bulgarian-occupied Drama district
In Eastern Macedonia Sunday night
were annihilated after skirmishes OF
several hours. it was announced Off
cially in Sofia, Bulgaria, today.
Reports Thursday in Bern. Switz-
srland, attributed to Bulgarian
sources, said an armed uprising ir
the once-Greek area had been
cuelled by army and police forces
Armed with rifles and machin,
guns, the Greek band crossed tn,
demarcation line from Greek ter.
fitory, the Sofia announcement said
and tried to rouse the Greek inhab.
itants of several Drama villages anc
seize public institutions.
Both sides were said to have suf.
fered casualties before order wa.
restored and the announcement said
a search was being pressed for ac-
completes and persons concealine
members of the band
The district. traversed by the Sal
onika- -Istanbul railroad. has been
held and administered by Bulgaria
since the end of the Balkan cam
paign.
More Czechs Executed.
NaI sources in Berlin reported
fresh executions of persons con-
victed of plotting against German
authority in Bohemia -Moravia
Bitter clashes in Norway between
Norwegians and German occupation
forces, spreading in one instance
throughout an entire town, were
reported in London by the Nor
vegian Telegraph Agency.
The news agency sal da violent
eombat broke out in cafe at Steink-
jer, near Trondheim, and spread
rapidly through the town. The bat
tie was said to have begun when
German soldiers entered cafe and
turned on the radio to listen to a
Nazi broadcast.
The Norwegians walked out, it
was said, and the angered Germans
followed them and hit out at them
with revolver butts. ammunition
belts and anything they could lay
their hands on"
The Norwegian King in exile
Haakon VII, signed a decree for his
regime in London today providing
the death penalty for crimes against
the Norwegian State-a move de-
scribed as warning tools Of the
Nazis" of the fate they will face
whenever the government is in posi-
ton to enforce the penalty. Hith-
erto life imprisonment has been the
extreme penalty for such crimes.
Heydrich Goes to Berlin.
The new executions in Bohemia
Moravia were said to have taken
place while Reichs Protector Rein
hard Heydrich FASTENED from the
protectorate to hear Fuehrer Hitler's
address to Germany In Berlin yes
terday.
Sentences of death previously were
reported in Berlin to have beer
passed on 100 in Bohemia -Moravia
The British radio said that ir
Poland 100 persons, including Il
women. had been executed openly
In the past three months. but
nevertheless. sabotage continues"
When it was disclosed that Hey
drich was in the capital and had
even walked by Hitler's side into
the Sportspalast, Berlin, observers
wondered whether, besides hearing
the Hitler speech, he had taken the
opportunity to report personally tc
the Fuehrer on present conditions
In the protectorate.
II was recalled that Gen. Alois
Elias. Premier of Bohemia-Moravia
still is under a death sentence which
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Death for Joining Allies.
In Brussels, Occupied Belgium
Gen. Baron Alexander Won Falken-
hausen decreed capital punishment
today for Belgians or Frenchmer
attempting to join the armed forces
of a nation at war with Germany
or to induce others to join.
Gen. Won Falkenhausen is the
German military commander for
Belgium and Northern France.
The Bruesseler zeitung, in report
ing the decree, said individual young
men had tried recently to get to
England from the occupied region
to join the Allied forces.