MISERY & DEATH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1940, Page 5

MISERY & DEATH

FATE OF JEWISH PEOPLE IN POLAND APPALLING MORTALITY FIGURES. STARVATION AND DISEASE. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright NEW YORK, January 23. According to reports received by the United States Joint Relief Distribution Committee, over 250,000 Jews have died in Poland through military operations, disease and starvation since September 1. Two thousand five hundred committed suicide. Eighty per cent of the 1,250,000 remaining in the Germanoccupied section are reduced to beggary. Typhus is raging in Warsaw, Lodz and' other towns. The institution of a ghetto in Warsaw in which 350,000 are to be crammed into a few blocks in which half the buildings are destroyed by bombing and fire is delayed because of the fear of the epidemic spreading. Corpses are still being recovered from the debris. PAPAL INDICTMENTS NAZI TREATMENT OF JEWS & POLES. INFAMOUS BRUTALITY. ROME, January 23. A broadcast from the Vatican reflecting the Papal sentiments scathingly indicts the German administration in Poland and her persecution of the Catholics. It says that Warsaw, Cracow, Pomerania, Poznan and Silesia supply unimpeachable testimony of destitution, destruction, infamy and violent assaults upon elementary justice and decency by a brutal system of deportation in the depth of winter. "Stark hunger threatens 70 per cent of the populace owing the removal of food and implements to Germany,” it states. “Jews and Poles are herded in separate hermetically sealed ghettos. All but the merest suggestion of religious worship is cynically suppressed. "This is a grievous affront to mankind’s conscience, a contemptuous insult to the law of nations and an. open thrust at the heart of the Father of the Christian family.”