Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Curremt Events July 14, 1942: BASTILLE DAY 1942


Bastille Day—Violence in France,
LONDON, July 14.—(U.P)—An
anti-Nazi outbreak in Jugoslavia
in which a German Gestapo chief
was assassinated and 700 persons
were killed or wounded in retaliation
by hand grenades thrown
wildly by Nazis was reported today
by a Jugoslav refugee government
spokesman.
The outbreak was reported as
the German occupation authorities
in Europe clamped down
drastic new restrictions designed
to prevent sabotage and to prevent
any French uprisings on
Bastille day.
Shots Fired From Window
The Gestapo chief, Major Helm,
was killed by shots fired from a
window as he and his aides were
walking in Jelavek square in Zagreb,
the Jugoslav spokesman
said. When the outbreak occurred
was not revealed.
As Helm fell, the other agents
began firing wildly at everyone
in sight. They tossed hand grenades
in all directions and at the
windows of the buildings from
which they believed the first
shots bad come.
Dispatches from. Vichy said
all who were members of
(Fascist) party in Bourges.
Much damage was admitted, but
there were no immediate reports
of casualties.
French, gendarmes, accompanied
by German police, had taken
a "terrorists"nest" in Pas de Calais
department in the north of
France. One patriot was killed
and a bystander wounded.
Railways Blown Up
Other reports said that railways
had been blown up at Montchy,
near the month of the River
Somme, and at Anviaux.
Lieutenant General Niehoff,
German military commander at
Lille, announced that 50 Communists
had been .deported for sabotage.
Inasmuch as .executions
and deportations are German
companion reprisals for sabotage
it would appear that some patriots
also had been shot.
It was against this rising tide
of disaffection and the prospects
that it would increase on Bas-
tille day that General Oberg,
chief of the gestapo in France,
ordered all male members over
18 of the families of French patriots
accused of sabotage and
attacks, on Germans executed
within 10 days if (he patriots
did not surrender. All women
would be sent into forced labor
and all children sent to reformatories.
Oberg's definition of family
included cousins and sons-inlaw.
Hostages Seized
Lieut. Gen. Alexander von
Fuulkenhauscr, German military
commander of the departments
of Nord and Pas de Calais,
France, and Belgium, announced
yesterday, that he had seized
"large number of hostages."
"By a reasonable Attitude and
by helping to prevent acts of
sabotage, the population of Belgium
and the north of France
can save the lives of their fellow
citizens who are being held as
hostages," be said.
It was doubted that such
threats would discourage---
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The San Mateo Times
SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1942

Defenders' Hour of Peril
GERM ANS ROLL DEEPER
TOWARD ROSTOV, USE
FLAME THROWERS NOW
MOSCOW/July 14.—(U.P)—The Soviet official press urgently
warned every Russian to choose between victory or death in
an all-out struggle against axis offensives gravely menacing the
Caucasus and Volga fronts today, despite a series of Red. army
counter-attacks.
Grave dangers hang over the fatherland in this life and death
struggle on the southern fronts," said the army, newspaper
Red Star in warning the people that they have no^choice
except to follow Lenin's slogan of "Victory or Death."
"The enemy will not break through to Stalingrad and the
Caucasus!"
Germans Use Flame-Throwers
Except for Red army counteroffensive
action on the Rostov front
125 miles northwest of Moscow and
on a wide front west of the Don
river in the Voronezh sector, every
report from the front lines supported
the grave situation of which the
Red Star and the Communist paper
Pravda warned the people.

F. R. Warns Vichy
On Warship Fate
President Says British Would Be Justified in
Destroying Units at Alexandria
WASHINGTON, July 14.—
(U.P)—President Roosevelt has
notified Vichy he feels the British
would be justified in destroying
the French warships
now at Alexandria to prevent
their capture by the axis, Acting
Secretary of State Simmer
Welles revealed today.
Mr. Roosevelt's warning was
contained in notes to Vichy proposing
that the vessels he brought
from Alexandria to a safe asylum
in a western hemisphere port, either
in this or a neutral country, or
in the French Caribbean island of
Martinique.

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