DENOUNCE RED CROSS CONVENTION

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 25, 24 October 1942, Page 7

DENOUNCE RED CROSS CONVENTION

Reported Nazi Intention U,S. FLYERS LOST AFTER TOKIO RAID LONDON, October 22. Vichy radio, quoting a dispatch from Stockholm, said the Axis Powers intend to denounce the Geneva Convention of 1864, including the provisions regarding Red Gross services and provisions for the treatment of prisoners of war. Four American airmen whose names closely correspond with those, broadcast from Tokio actually were on the army’s list of flyers missing as the result of storms encountered after the raid on Tokio in April was completed, said the United States Secretary of War, Mr. Stimson, in Washington. He added that there were relatively l few airmen missing after this raid. Some flyers may have been forced down by lack of petrol in Japanesecontrolled territory. One plane was interned in Russia and several others were involved in forced landings in China. Very few of these planes were missing. “Our flyers who attacked Tokio were instructed to attack only military targets. Our reports indicate that they did so with remarkable accuracy,” Mr. Stimson said. “We abide by the Geneva Convention, governing the conduct of war, and expect our enemies to do the same. are very loth to believe that Japan is going to violate these rules. We have allowed the Red Cross to inspect the condition of all Japanese prisoners held by us, and are making every effort to see that the rules of Geneva and the rules of humanity are carried out." Family Hostages. It is learned in London that Germany has applied the system of hostages for the first time to Allied Governments in London, marking a further step in the recent tightening-up ot the German campaign of horror ana brutality. An announcement in Prague states that relatives of members of the Czech Government in London have been sent to internment camps as a reprisal for acts of sabotage. The Czech Foreign Minister. M. Masaryk, last night warned the Prague authorities of the punishment that is in store after the war for the perpetrators of such acts of barbarity.