Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1943 — Page 9

FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1943 Men Without Name

French Sabotage Growing Bolder

Reprisals Increase, Thousands Taken to Work in German War Factories.

(Fourth of a Series) By NAT A. BARROWS

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hy The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc

LONDON, July 9.—Striking insidiously with all the cunning and hatred of trapped animals, French underground agents and resistance movement sympathizers have reached such a high point in sabotage, assassination and bombing that puppet Premier Pierre Laval is now set-

ting up a special “terror.”

The undermining of the German occupation structure increases daily as French patriots grow bolder in face of the greatest labor deportations yet inflicted upon France. From every part of France, underground reports reach London that resistance grows in proportion

to new hardships and tortures by the German and Laval puppets deter-

mined that not one able-bodied Frenchman will be available to help behind the lines during the illied invasion, "Resistez” . . . “Aux Armes, Citoyens” . . . Pour Une Seule Patrie” . Jivre Libre ou " Byv the

sands and

Un Seul Combat

ans of thousands, tri-col-ored stickers with these mesages of the Tench underground aré pasted openly from the Cher-

bourg peninsula to the Mediter-

Mr. Barrows

ranean shores—on lamp posts, on automobiles, on public buildings, and especially on property occuMen die

when caugnt with such stickers,

pied by the Germans

but still the messages appear One sticker used by the underground is handled and distributed as if it were dynamite. This is the one showing a black coffin bearing the inscription, “Collaborator,” and it is pasted on the doors of those Frenchmen discovered assisting the Germans. Once a Frenchman gets such a label, he knows he is doomed.

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Learns Lessons Nazi reprisals have increased violently in the past month but nonetheless, sabotage, arson, slowdowns and bomb-throwings increase, too. “Until the last man, we'll fight with every weapon we can find; and when the last man is gone the women and children will carry our job of resistance,” one Frenchman told me only a short time after he had escaped from France, How did he get here, or how goes any man or woman cet to England. or back to France? You don't ask questions about 1 things and vou wouldn't get "an answer if vou did. The underground has learned many lessons since this deadly came of wits and reckless daring

began to develop into a great |

movement that has just seen the unification of all 16 resistance groups. It has learned how to steal ink and paper for its clandestine press; how to keep its secret radios hidden; how to

keep fugitives out of the way of |

the Germans month after month; how to blow up war factories without getting caught. No one can say how many

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members the French underground has. Some estimates are as high as 10,000,000 members of one degree of activity or another.

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Women Take Part

Now that the Germans have just ordered that all men of the class of 1922 must be sent to Germany without the previous exceptions for poor health, women are beginning to venture into the more dangerous types of underground work. Their tasks will increase as more of French manpower jis spirited away to slavery in German factories. The underground press is being hard hit by restrictions, by paper shortages and by intensified Gestapo raids, but 23 papers manage somehow to reflect antiGerman France. They give news of the war, which otherwise is unobtainable, news of the De Gaulle-Giraud deliberations in North Africa, news of German atrocities. In general, they all reflect strong De Gaulle sentiment, acknowledging Gen. Charles de Gaulle as their symbol of unity and their choice for political leadership. Gen. Henri Giraud they would accept as a military leader in co-operation with De Gaulle. » x ”

‘Invasion Day’ Plan

Through one of their undereround newspapers, L'Humanite, the French Communists recently outlined their own version of what the French should do on invasion dav as follows: 1. A general strike. 2. The mobilization and supplying of available arms to patriots. 3. The striking down or capture of Vichy police. 4. The occupation of all public buildings to prevent the Germans from using radio and railway stations. 5. The freeing of imprisoned patriots.

{ In their turn, the Germans |

spread constant threats about what they will do to the French

when invasion comes and hints of | wholesale executions are not the | least of these threats. It became |

known a few weeks ago that the Germans were making preparations to imprison all males between 15 and 55 the minute the

invasion alarm is given. This | edict has added many thousands

to those in hiding to escape enforced labor, » tJ »

Wreck 180 Locomotives

Sabotage is at present the underground’s focal point and all 16 movements are co-ordinating

their blows so carefully that spe- | cial anti-sabotage squads have |

been formed in an effort to cope

with this growing blow to the | German machine in France. In- | formation reaching London shows |

that the underground destroyed 180 locomotives and sabotaged 110 others between January and April. A complete list of sabotage activities for the month of March. on my desk as I write, recounts 102 separate accounts of sabotage seriously detrimental to the Germans, ranging from the wrecking

of machine tools and the blowing ! up of factories in Brittany to the | bombing of German barracks and |

the wrecking of trains in Picardy. The list gives only the bald facts: Touraine—83.000 liters of alcohol burned . . . Champagne

250 Germans kiled by the wreck- |

ing of a train , . . Normandy . .. collaborationist’s house blown up. On and on through a dozen kinds of violence at the hands of men and women willing to pay any price for their freedom. Im-

prisonment, executions and priva- |

tions are biting deeply into resistance movements but as long as the French have a hope of deliverance, their fight will continue —"until the last man.”

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