MARTYRED NATION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 December 1939, Page 5

MARTYRED NATION

POLAND'S PATE AT HANDS 01- NAZIS EXECUTIONS FOLLOW WAR SLAUGHTER. MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DRIVEN FROM HOMES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. December 7. “The Times" says it is established that 20,600 bodies of civilians, killed in the defence of Warsaw, have been found under the ruins. The destruction of buildings was so great experts tire of the opinion that 20 years will be required to rebuild Warsaw. In a recent interview with the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, the Polish Ambassador in London, Count Raczynski, informed him that millions of Poles were being turned out of their homes at a few hours’ notice and deprived of their possessions. Moreover, with a view to breaking up lhe population the Germans had during the last few days begun to execute many of the better-known Polish citizens. The Polish Government, the Ambassador said, had the names of many of the victims, who include the mayor of Bromberg. Prominent land-owners also had been put into concentration camps.

The Polish Government also had information of serious ill-treatment of Poles in those parts of Poland which formerly belong to Austria. Cracow itself had been affected by a transfer of population from the Rhineland, and a Polish ghetto was being created in that city.

All the professors in Cracow University had been assembled, arrested and taken to Germany.