Evening star., 1942-08-14
Second Front
Continued From First Page.

radio station was not disclosed by
the Germans.
(The BIC, in broadcast heard
in New York by CHS, said Bel
gian patriots were reported to
have attacked a German mill
tary airdrome in the Lege dis
trict, burning four planes and
killing Is Germans, while the
Gestapo was said to have ar
rested 40 workmen in the search
for persons responsible for wreck
ing two blast furnaces in a Bel
gian metallurgical factory)
Meanwhile, the Norwegian gov
ernment in London said 1t had been
unable to learn yet what punish
ment If any had been inflicted on
about 900 men, women and children
who were arrested In Oslo August 3
for wearing flowers to commemorate
the birthday of King Haakon Of
Norway.
New Threat on YugosIavs.
These sources quoted reports
coming through Stockholm that
Maj. Vidkin Quisling's Norwegian
Gestapo regarded it as dangerous
demonstration" and sought to avert
it by forcing flower shops to close.
There were new reports Of Axis
reprisals and threats in old Yugo-
slavia.
Roundabout reports to Reuters
said the italians who blasted the
little Yugoslav village of Ravnik out
of the ground" because of patriot
activity, posted notices threatening
death to any residents of neighbor-
ing villages who gave shelter to the
homeless.
Reuters reported that "as most OF
the male population was shot on the
spot or driven away to Italy, the
homeless consisted of women, chill
dren and the aged"
Serb Youths Put in Camps.
These developments came annie
continuing disorders and reported
executions in German occupied Eu.
rope. The refugee government.
here, however, were trying through
broadcasts to hold in check theil
underground allies until a fittinf
moment - presumably the secone
front-arrives.
Several hundred Serb boys hav,
been sent to concentration camps O.
deported to prevent them from join
ing guerrilla bands, the Yugoslav
said.
Early in August, the exile govern
ment added, German Gen. Turned
military commander of occupied
Serbia, told several hundred civil
representatives in Belgrade that 81
the German military command i
compelled to use one more soldie
than the present occupying forc'
for the suppression of disorders thi
will mean the annihilation O
Serbia"
Second Front Reports Persist.
indicative of the fighting In Yugo
slavia, the Berlin radio broadcast
report that the Yugoslavs lost 500
dead and 9700 taken prisoner be
tween July % and August 8.
The second front idea is ever
present; the Nazi press and radi
and movies are constantly tellin,
the Germans Of preparations mad
to resist it; France is jittery over it
j possibilities; the Italians have beel
assured by Premier Mussolini ther
would be no second front In Ital
or elsewhere.
The Germans ordered all Dutcl
women between 18 and 40 years o
ago to register for a Nazi women
labor battalion, marking the frs
: attempt to draft women for labor II
Holland
The British radio reported Nor
4 wegian patriots had wrecked tn
powerful turbine installations in tn
Stavanger district and set fire t
: two workshops in the aluminium
works there.
4 The arrest of so hostages in tn
Belgian Province OF Hainault afte
destruction of dynamos and othe
electrical installations in sever,
n factories was reported by the Ere
: Belgian news agency.
: A neutral press report frol
: Pragu said two men were execute
August 7 for high treason again.
: the Reich.
e e Goering Acts to Curb
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