INHUMAN CRIMES
Last Warning To Axis Powers APPEAL TO PRESIDENT (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.— Copyright.) WASHINGTON, July 31. Norway, Belgium,. Czechoslovakia, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Yugoslavia, and the French National Committee have collectively appealed, to President Roosevelt requesting him to address a last warning to Germany and the other Axis Powers against the -barbaric and inhuman, crimes committed daily in occupied countries.
The shooting of 20 French hostages at Chavannes, following the wrecking of a heavily-laden German troop train in Normandy, has been reported to General de Gaulle’s headquarters. Twenty men were chosen from every, town in the department, and shot without anyone being advised what was going to ha-ppen. King Haakon of Norway, who celebrates his 70th birthday on August 3, received a -message from Norwegian patriots assuring him that they will fight on in Norway. The line of battle chosen by them, the message stated, was not dependent on tlie Allies’ war effort, or even on the outcome of the war. They would never surrender.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 261, 3 August 1942, Page 4
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167INHUMAN CRIMES Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 261, 3 August 1942, Page 4
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