NAZI TERRORISM
Execution Of Hostages
(Received January 29, 11. p.m.) LONDON, January 28.
Following the execution of 43 hostages at Athens and Salonika, Greek patriots blew up an arsenal near the naval base at Salamis, killing 25 German officers and technicians and wounding others. Germans then started a reign of terror at Salamis. Twelve hostages were executed in the main square and the inhabitants were forced to line up and witness the hangings. The bodies were left on the gallows. •, t It is reported from Athens tiiat the Gestapo has ordered the delivery of all radios by January 31, except those owned by Germans and Italians. Live Greeks have been executed for sabotage. “The Times” Belgian correspondent says that tlie Germans in tile last five weeks have executed 09 Belgians, ou of whom were hostages who were shot after attacks on Germans. “The Times” Geneva correspondent says that M. Laval has banned the Salvation Army, which daily fed 7000 in Paris alone, because its work “overlapped tlie work of tiie Secours Nationale. It is reported from Prague that several large convoys of Jews left Bohemia and Moravia for the prison fortress at Terezin, whence they are sent to eastern Poland. It is rumoured that the small number of Jews left in Czechoslovakia are being deported within the next two months. Not a single Jew will be left by the end of March.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 107, 30 January 1943, Page 5
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232NAZI TERRORISM Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 107, 30 January 1943, Page 5
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