CRUEL NAZI TRICK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1941, Page 6

CRUEL NAZI TRICK

BOGUS MESSAGES DESPATCHED OVERSEAS. TO RELATIVES MAKING INQUIRIES IN HOLLAND. The cruellest am! dirtiest trick of the war is that which has been played on relatives of Ho'danders throughout the world Alter the German rape of Holland anxious Hollanders m South Africa and otht r countries tried han! to get m touch with their relatives m the Netherlands. Anxious to create the impression that a’l was well under Nazi rule, the Germans sent out wholesale replies : to inquiries that ' all was well." Unfm'lunately, howeves, mie inquirer m Si-nth .Africa jeeeivei! the tm-xsagc ’all family well,” ami this way. signed "Father.” The father c<mcvrmed died five years ag<. Through a circum us route a letter has reached Mr J T van Nickerk. of Pretoria, showing that tin- courageous people of Holland have fa: from settled down to the conditions imposed on them by the Germans. "Everybody m Hoihmd lias a deep hatred for the Gennam. and everybody trusts and hopes th.u N.im-.m will be decisively defeated," says the letter Hollanders ;ir«- full >■( .‘tclnuratlon fur the RA F 'i he German* always v ?,v that the English bombs only fall on lanm> cow etc, but 1 can as-'Ui.* yoti that every L<»mb from the I'nph-h a hit They hm-w huw *.<• bi* oil tanks. , il<- l"ii eloeil- With 'O-.tllt 'h!iI*. 5 p:< <-*. , 1 ' 1 ''L'' Ln L t WiWWd ’"Their mwre! sij’Vs-i'e b- abo very pm- Mime time a wdLkw wo radio firm -started tmmufaidm’ing |.|am f Germany Om- night the i..,rpcu!,ir fm-tmv whew- the e lb-ng< - . --- -a. ■ me! let ly tICW.ATd Lv English bombs ‘