HEROIC POLES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 April 1941, Page 2

HEROIC POLES

GROWING LIST OF MARTYRS. The resistance of the Polish population to the German oppressors is growing from day to day (writes a Polish correspondent of the London “Times”).It is reported from Warsaw that on December 26 a detachment of the S.S. surrounded a house in Tamka Street and demanded the surrender of four women and two men. When this demand was refused they organised a formal siege of the house. Fire grenades were thrown into the flat where the wanted people were staying. One of them jumped from the window with his clothes burning: he was shot dead by the S.S. When, after several hours, the S.S. succeeded in entering the burnt-out flat they found three burnt corpses on the floor. On December 28, in the village of Zolkiewka, near Krasnystaw, the German police surrounded a barn in which a group of Poles were hiding. Shots were fired and three Poles were lulled. In the barn the S.S. found a machinegun, a revolver, several hand grenades, and a large amount of ammunition. News has just reached London of the heroic death of Senator Henry Brun, chairman of the Association of Polish Merchants and one of the leading business men in Poland. Me was tortured to death by the Gestapo after persistently refusing to sign an appeal or funds for the benefit of the “Volksdcutsche" of Warsaw. tVhen pressed to do so. he answered: “An occupant can impose a contribution, but there is no power in the world which can make me ask my business colleagues to pay a ransom for the benefit of our German enemies."