MASS MURDERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1941, Page 6

MASS MURDERS

MOUNTING TOLL OF CZECH VICTIMS DEEDS OF BLOODTHIRSTY “PROTECTOR.” SUPPRESSION OF REVOLT * IN GREECE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, October 2. Since the appointment of Heydrich as “Protector” 126 Czechs are reported to have been executed, including thirty yesterday. Another 33 were sentenced to death yesterday and a further 228 persons, who appeared before Moravian and Bohemian courts-martial have been handed over to the Gestapo for further interrogation. Reports received in Czech quarters in London reveal that there are many more executions and arrests than those officially announced. The Gestapo is hunting in most remote villages for “suspects.” Thousands of people have left their homes and are hiding in the woods and hills. An appalling number of suicides include Dr Rudolf Rumpl. a pioneer aeronaut. It is pointed out that nearly all the industrial districts in South Moravia are now under martial law, whereby the Germans are desperately attempting to maintain production. It is reported from Stockholm that President Hacha sought to resign as a protest against the mass executions, but the Nazis forced him to remain. It is officially announced in Berlin that General Elias has not yet been executed. He probably appealed to Hitler for clemency. A message from Bucharest states that Greeks, armed with machine guns, hand grenades and revolvers, attempted an uprising in mountain areas around Drama, but that the police and military “re-established calm.”