“OMINOUS PAGE”

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20111, 4 December 1939, Page 7

“OMINOUS PAGE”

GERMAN CRUELTY RECORD IN POLAND RUTHLESS RULE ! “BESTIAL HANGMEN" REGIME OF TERROR I (Ef*c. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Dec. 4, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 3. The Polish Ambassador handed the Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax, who has promised it will receive earnest attention, a protest against the German terror regime as already reviewed by the Polish Prime Minister, General Sikorski. The Ambassador states that nowhere else has an enemy' so ruthlessly treated a defenceless population. Horrifying reports arrive from the German-occupied areas where the Gestapo and Black guards rule. Property has been seized from owners who are evicted so that the entire population is driven away. Human life has become the sport of ferocious bestial hangmen. Leading citizens of western Poland are being shot one after another and their names are whispered through the horror■-striken country.

All professors of the Cracow University were deported to Germany in a single day.

“Poland, under the Nazis has become the soil of martyrdom,” states the Ambassador. “Nazi savagery is writing a new and ominous page in the history of German cruelty.” Polish circles in London have been advised that the Gestapo executed 3 number of Polish civil servants at Gdynia, including the chairman of the harbour trust, the Government commissioner and his deputy and also the chief of police