THE JAPS. ARE NOT THE ONLY BRUTES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 64, 12 June 1942, Page 3

THE JAPS. ARE NOT THE ONLY BRUTES

The barbarities that have been perpetrated by the Japanese in the Pacific have rather tended to obscure the performances of their teachers. Here follows an account of life in a German "grumblers" camp by a man who escaped from it and also succeeded in passing live frontiers before he reached England. He was a German himself, brought back under armed guard from Spain, where the work of German bombers had sickened him of the Nazis. "When Ave arrived we were beaten out of the lorry with rubber truncheons. Then we had to kneel on a triangular piece of wood until our heads had been shaved in turn. Then we were made to stand at at-> tcntion for six hours in the burning sun. We had had nothing to cat for 24 hours; those who fell down were beaten till they stood up. Camp leaders and SS men were running all round us like raging devils —whe had chains put on our legs. We had to wear these chains day and night. At night, too, we were fastened by the hands to our beds. Sixteen hours of forced labour in the quarry was our daily, portion." NEWS FROM THE THIRD FRONT Aceordiing to a recent report by European Correspondents, in London, the increase in sabotage and the "go-slow" campaign in France are having an extremely unfavourable effect upon Nazi plans. Thus official reports issued by the German High Command in France note the following occurrences during the last three months of 1941: There was sabotage at 74 steel foundries. 1800 trucks loaded with war material were destroyed. 30 ammunition dumps were blown up. 184 trains were derailed. These being German figurccs they arc very likely to include only a fraction of the sabotage actually committed. They prove also that it is good to bombard France by means of leaflets and radio broadcasts. The Frenchmen understand them, while the Germans, meanwhile, understand only bombs.