NAZI METHODS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 119, 22 May 1942, Page 5

NAZI METHODS

DUTCH SENT TO RUSSIA

LONDON, May 21. According to Swedish newspapers, the transportation of Dutchmen to Russia as permanent colonists is now in full swing, says The Times Stockholm correspondent. The Germans have already taken 100,000 to White Russia and intend to transport 3,000,000 to farm the fertile occupied territories, promising the Dutch certain measures of eventual local selfgovernment under German control. The Norwegian Telegraph Agency says that some of the arrested Norwegian teachers are doing heavy manual work in gangs with Russian prisoners near Kirkenes, in the far north, on German fortifications. Many well-known industrialists and shipowners are among a large batch of hostages the Germans seized in reprisal for the shooting of a Quisling policeman.

It Is reported from Vichy that a youth fired three revolver shots at a German officer near Notre Dame, Paris, gravely wounding him. The youth escaped on a bicycle. Two Paris buildings occupied by Germans were bombed.

A Frenchman and a Frenchwoman were executed at Lille for sheltering a British soldier. Another Frenchman was executed for armed sabotage.

The Hamburger Fremdenblatt reports that Amiens prisons are so packed that there is no room for two convicted thieves.

Polish circles in London state that Professor Staniszkis, of the Warsaw Agricultural College, aged 62, was beaten to death at Oswiecim concentration camp. Professor Rybarski, of Warsaw University, died at Dachau.