POLISH JEWS’ AGONY

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 31, 31 October 1942, Page 7

POLISH JEWS’ AGONY

Exterminated ‘Tn Tens Of Thousands” (British Official Wireless.) (Received October 30, 7 p.m.) RUGBY, October 29.

A meeting of protest against the German persecution of Jews was held in tlie Albert Hall under the chairmanship of the Archbishop of Canterbury. General Sikorski, the Polish Premier, said that the Jews in Poland were being exterminated ruthlessly, and in the mass. Jews were herded into the ghettos of Warsaw, Lodz, Cracow, Lvov, and X'ilno. Driven east under appalling conditions and treated far worse than herds of cattle, they were exterminated in tens of thousands. As a soldier, he warned the German torturers that they would not escape retribution for all the crimes they had committed.

It is learned that reports of serious bomb attacks in IVarsaw have reached the Polish Government in London. On October 24, bombs exploded in cafes reserved for German officers. One cafe was completely demolished and several German officers were killed and a score wounded.

Next day tlie Gestapo took 50 hostages from' a Polisli cafe, threatening to execute them if further outrages occurred. A curfew at 7 p.m. was also imposed on Poles, with banishment to Germany for forced labour as tlie penalty for nou-observauce.