SAVAGE TERRORISM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1941, Page 5

SAVAGE TERRORISM

INTENSIFIED BY NAZIS WHOLESALE EXECUTIONS IN FRANCE. “MORE SEVERE MEASURES" THREATENED. LONDON, September 29. The Gormans have sent a threatening message through radio Luxemburg to the former French war prisoners. ’’Germany has released hundreds of thousands of French prisoners, and some of them on return have taken up the dirty work of anti-German propaganda and have become agents of deGaulle and the Communists,” the message stated. "Such behaviour does not encourage German clemency. The measures which have been taken so far are only warnings. For instance, 10 Communists will be shot immediately for every German who is attacked. The curfew that was imposed on the Parisians is another warning. “If the French fail to use every means of opposing anti-German pro-( paganda, which will bring misfortune to millions of their countrymen, Germany is determined to take move severe measures. “It is for you to decide. Frenchmen, whether you listen to British propaganda with its message of death and revolution or listen to our voice, which is the voice of freedom.” As a reprisal for dynamite attacks on the nights of September 24 and 25 on German convoys and French trains the Germans shot 20 "particularly active Communists,” according to Paris newspapers. Armed terrorists allegedly stole considerable quantities of explosives, and the series of attacks started near the scene of this theft, believedly on the railway b'etween Lille and Paris, It is announced in Vichy that four Germans have been killed in Lille and three killed and six wounded in Paris since August 13. In retaliation the Germans so far have executed 61 Frenchmen, of whom 49 were shot in the past 10 days. In Belgium a whole family consisting of an aged couple and a daughter have been wiped out by the Nazis. They had given refuge to some British troops. MURDER & OUTRAGE VICTIMS SHOT IN BATCHES IN SERBIA. SELECTED AT RANDOM. LONDON. September 29. From 1500 Serbs imprisoned in Belgrade. 50 are chosen at random and executed whenever one German soldier is shot. The Germans, on a recent Sunday, hanged six Serbs and left them exposed ’in the city square at Belgrade with the object of subduing the population. but the people purposely | thronged the square, pretending not to notice the bodies. The Germans have compelled Serb gendarmes to shoot peasants in reprisal for the killing of German soldiers by placing machine-guns behind the gendarmes. This practice is continued because all the Serb commissars and gendarmes threatened to resign. The Moscow radio reports sabotage in Rumania, where many railway accidents and factors' explosions are said to have occurred in the past few days. TORTURE & MASSACRE. The Istanbul correspondent of “The Times" says that the Ustashas, the pro-Nazis terrorist movement in north ern Yugoslavia, is carrying out a systematic extermination of the Serbian population. About 300,000, including women and children, have already been massacred with refinements of sadistic cruelty, and the entire Seib population has been wiped out in some places in Croatia. Knowing that thej cannot expect mercy from the Ustashas, the Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia are leaving the towns and villages and taking refuge in the mountains under the protection of the patriot Chetniks.