HORRORS IN POLAND

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 December 1939, Page 3

HORRORS IN POLAND

HUMAN LIFE THE SPORT OF HANGMEN DENUNCIATION OF NAZIS. j GENERAL SIKORSKI’S PROTEST. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. December 2. The Polish Ambassador handed to Lord Halifax, who promised to give it his earnest attention, a protest against the German terror regime published by the Polish Premier, General Sikorski, stating that nowhere else had the enemy so ruthlessly treated a defenceless population. “Horrifying reports arrive from Ger-man-occupied areas in Poland where the Gestapo and the Black Guards rule." said General Sikorski. “Property has been seized from its owners, who have been evicted, and so the entire population driven. Human life has become the sport of ferocious bestial hangmen. “Leading citizens in western Poland are being shot one after another and their names are whispered through the horror-stricken country. All the professors in Cracow University were deported to Germany in a single day. “Poland, under the Nazis, has become a soil of martyrdom. Nazi savagery is writing a new and ominous page in the history of German cruelty."

Polish circles in London advised that the Gestapo executed a number of Polish civil servants in Gdynia, including the chairman of the Harbour Trust, the Government Commissioner, and his deputy, and the Chief of Police.