BELGRADE IN RUINS
MURDEROUS NAZI ATTACK
PROTEST BY YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT. ADDRESSED TO ALL CIVILISED PEOPLE. 'By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, (Received This Day, 12.30 p'.rn.) LONDON. April 9. Unloosing a veritable deluge of incendiaries and high explosives, German bombers converted Belgrade into a mass of ruins and I covered the streets with the bodies of children, women and old men, states a message from the Yugoslav Government to all civilised people. Belgrade, which in good time was proclaimed an open and undefended city, was bombed by German aircraft on the morning of April 6 without a declaration cf war, while church bells were calling the faithful to church. The attack eclipsed in horror anything imaginable. The Germans ignored most of the precepts of international right and human consideration and destroyed all hospitals, churches, schools and cultural institutions. Thirty bomb:; demolished the Royal Palace. Dr. Koulovctz, Leader of the Slovene people, was killed. There were horrible scenes when women and. children were machine-gunned while fleeing from their burning homes. Thousands are homeless.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1941, Page 6
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