Evening star., 1941-09-21
Il Shot in Paris
As Feeling Rise,
In Nazi Areas
Germans Threaten
More Executions If
New Attacks Occur
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, German occupied France
Sept. 20.-A dozen Frenchmen went
before German firing squad today
In a 12-lives-for-1 reprisal.
This mass execution of hostages
was ratio increase in punishment
of the Paris population for acts
against the occupying force and was
the occasion for a warning that
the reprisals would be further
stepped up in the event of more at
tacks against German soldiers.
The II died in retaliation for an
attack in which one German non-
commissioned officer was killed early
last Tuesday. 1t was the largest
number of hostages yet shot and
raised the total to Is.
Previous Ratio 3 for l.
The ratio which previously had
stood for reprisals was three hostages
executed for each German attacked
None of the other Germans was
killed, however.
Un Vichy it was announced
that French authorities working
to down opposition had con-
demned three Communists to die.
One of them was Adolphe Guyot,
Communist leader of the Paris
district. A free French radio
broadcast from London stated
that "for each Frenchman shot
in repriSal by the German Army
of occupation, two German heads
will roll on the day of final
reckoning Execution of the
hostages has created a stir in
Vichy. Authorized circles said
French public opinion was sad
ly hit" by the repriSal measures,
even if 1t could not approve of
acts of violence against German
occupying troopsO
The executions were announced
by the German military commander
of occupied France, Gen. Heinrich
Won Stuelpnagel, who in curt tones
warned that in case of further at
tacks against the Germans many
more hostages will be shot,
Morning Period Set.
Today also saw Paris subjected ia
the stiffest penalties yet imposed by
the German administration. Start
ing tonight restaurants, cafes and
movies must be closed on the dot
at pm for ee-day mourning
period" and the populace must be
off the streets from 9 pm. to 5 am
To this Gen. Won Stuelpnagel
added a somber note in a proclama-
ton: observation of these orders
will be controlled by German pa
trolls
The grand total of persons exc
cuted since a German ensign was
shot in a Paris subway August 81
now is IS. In addition to 25 shot
as hostages, seven were executed as
Communists and three as spies.
Was Shot in Back.
The German non-c commissioned
officer whose death was responsible
for today's mass execution was shot
In the back Tuesday while walking
home through one of the city's busi-
est commercial districts.
A woman, the only real witness
to any of the series of attacks
against Germans in the capital, said
she saw number of shots fired from
an automobile in the Boulevard de
Strasbourg. She watched while the
assailapts ran into a subway sta
tion, where she told her story to a
station attendant. Later she
answered a police appeal to testify
but so far as announced none of the
attackers has been arrested.
Reasons Announced.
For the first time today the Ger
mans announced the reasons for the
selection of the hostages. Gen. Won
Stuelpnagel's announcement de-
clared that seven were picked and
shot for being Communists, three
for illegal possession of arms and
two for attacks against German
soldiers.
Two of the II were listed as for
mer government employees, appar-
emily in minor positions. One was
Jewish. Some of the others came
from the red belt" of Partisan SUBJ
urbs where Communist propaganda
Is recognized to be widespread.
In Vichy. the French council of
ministers, with Marshal Petain pres
ent, discussed "the situation created
by the attacks on isolated members
of the German army" and studied
proposals to end foreign propa-
ganda which inspired these acts,'
an announcement said.
An apparently growing wave OF
hostile acts against German occupy
ing authorities throughout the Nazi-
dominated continent was indicated
yesterday in a flood of reports from
abroad. Such activity, frequently
bringing German repressive meas
ures, was reported from Holland,
Belgium, Yugoslavia and Czecho-
Slovakia as we'll as from France.
The Dutch news agency Aneta
said sabotage and anti-Nazi demon
strations are on the increase
throughout Holland, pm. curfew
was reported imposed on the town
of Hoensbroeck in reprisal for
thefts from the German armed
forces; inhabitants of the town of
were said to have been
fined $4,000 guilders for sabotage
and in Rotterdam a public prosecu-
tor was reported to have announced
during a trial that the authorities
were unable to cope with the wave
of Outrageous offenses" against
them. Heavy penalties were de-
The Belgian government-in-exile
announced in London that fresh
incidents of sabotage and demon
strations against the Germans was
from Belgium. Vat Ypres a
pm. curfew was imposed in pun
lshment for the smashing of win
dows of a German army building.
At Lille, France, near the Belgian
border, three Belgians were SEN