SOVIET ACCUSATIONS

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 32, 2 November 1942, Page 5

SOVIET ACCUSATIONS

Children Burnt And Buried Alive By Enemy (Received November 1, 7 p.m.) LONDON, October 31. The Germans are still carrying out wholesale massacres in White Russia, says the “Soviet War News,” the bulletin of the Russian Embassy in London. The Germans have slaughtered 109,000 persons in the Minsk area, 20,000 at Pinsk, and 20,000 at Shklovchin. The Germans at Lyubin herded children together and buried them alive before the eyes of their parents, who were then shot.’- The Germans at Lelchitzy burnt alive 150 children of “unreliable parents.” More than 2000 houses were burnt down in four days in the Vitebsk region. All the residents of the villages of Kurino and Ostrovetz were herded into houses over which paraffin was poured, and the houses were then set on fire. Feeling in Sweden.

A confidential letter which is being circulated among the Germans living in Sweden warns them not to provoke incidents or demonstrations against themselves, says the “Daily Telegraph’s” Stockholm correspondent. The letter states: “After the recent events in Norway, Sweden’s attitude toward Germanophile Swedes has changed considerably for the worse. British and American reports alleging the execution of 200,000 civilians in the occupied territories have strongly influenced Swedish circles. Therefore, it is advisable for you not to give grounds for provoking unpleasantness till further notice.”

Berlin radio says that It Communists from the Bacska dis .‘t in Hungary were sentenced to death and two others to imprisonment for life for participating in acts of sabotage and banditry and the use of weapons directed against the public security. Polish circles in London have learned that the Germans executed 55 reserve Polish hostages as a reprisal for sabotage ou a railway near Warsaw. Another 50 Poles who were taken as hostages following bomb explosions on Thursday in cafes reserved for Germans, are still under threat of death.