ATROCITIES DAILY
HORROR IN POLAND MASS EXECUTIONS CRUELTY AND PILLAGE (Elec. Tol, Copyright—United Press Assn.) ißecd. Nov. 30, 2.10 p.m.) 'PARIS, Nov. 29. Charging the Nazi Government with bestiality and cruelty unparalleled in history, the Prime Minister of Poland, General Sikorski, in a statement said that after the shooting of 10 Poles at Cliejnice as a reprisal for the death of a German policeman, five young women and a railwayman were shot dead as another reprisal. ‘•One would have thought that the day the Germans imposed their yoke on Poland they would have 'been glutted with blood and cruelty, but never a day passes when individual or mass executions do not take place, people are not expelled from their homes, and property • not pillaged,’ said General Sikorski. "Never were such atrocities committed as daily occur in Poland.
“The Polish Government is publishing a book enumerating the horrors.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20109, 1 December 1939, Page 11
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