APPALLING TERROR

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20035, 6 September 1939, Page 5

APPALLING TERROR

GERMAN METHODS WHOLESALE HOSTAGES WOMEN AND CHILDREN UNITS FROM SLOVAK BASE HOSPITAL TRAIN BOMBED (Reed. Sept. 6, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 5. The Warsaw correspondent ot The Times says that news is coming in hourly of the appalling German terror. The invaders on the East Prussian front are reported to be taking off women and children wholesale as hostages to East Prussia. Danzigers of Polish blood, who were unable to escape, are reported to be receiving similar treatment. The correspondent confirms that operations' are heaviest on the Silesian front. The Poles regained ground near Rybnik. The artillery bombardment of Katowice was continuous, as ■ were the air raids on Cracow, from which the civil population had been largely evacuated. Fields had been emptied of livestock. The roads are choked with refugees (leeing westwards and troops marching eastwards. The correspondent of The Times at Zilina, Czechoslovakia, says that German troops converged from the Slovak base upon Neumarkt, and from Levoca, Jablonka and Poprad in Hungary, whence cavalry and infantry, preceded by tanks and armoured cars, took the Slovak troops with them. The latter, however, were halted at the border and formed defensive posts There are now 400,000 troops under the German command in Slovakia of whom 180,000, mainly Austrians, are fighting. There is a great scarcity of food and tobacco. An air raid with incerdiary bombs annihilated the village of Chiemluch, near Tarnow, killing many. A Polish telegraphic agency in Paris reported that 55 German air raiders destroyed a Red Cross train near Sj.vdlowicz.