NO ABATEMENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1941, Page 6

NO ABATEMENT

OF NAZI TERRORISM INFAMIES IN OCCUPIED COUNTRIES. DEEDS OF UNCHAINED SAVAGERY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, October 7. Reports of unrest and persecution continue to be received from Nazi-oc-cupied countries. Heydrich has decreed closure of synagogues in Bohemia and Moravia and has also threatened to arrest Czechs talking to Jews in the streets, because this expressed an antiGerman attitude.

A German spokesman said the execution of General Elias, Premier of Bohemia, had been postponed because his evidence was necessary in other cases. Twenty-seven more residents of Prague have been sentenced to death. “The Times” Istanbul correspondent states that Bulgarians in Greece have ruthlessly massacred thousands . of Greeks. Greek resistance was mainly passive, which infuriated the Bulgars, who exaggerated disturbances as an excuse for wiping out the Greeks. , The Stockholm “Social Demokraten’ reports that 2,000 political prisoners are already in Norwegian concentration camps, but the Germans are establishing three more to accommodate newly arrested persons. The Oslo Council is replacing all teachers and civil servants with Quislingitcs. All literature unsympathetic to Nazism will be publicly burned. Owing to repeated attempts to destroy the railways from Oslo to Eidsvold and from Oslo to Kongsvingei, the German Security Police have decreed that all men between 21 and 25 in the communes along the railways must report for watching the lines. Anyone refusing will be tried in Gorman courts. Guards on stretches on which sabotage occurs will be handed over to the Germans for severe sentences.

Fished from the Seine, a woman's body has been identified, according to the Paris police, as that of Madame Tonia Masse, secretary to the founder of the anti-Communist Volunteer Legion. She was strangled and then placed in a sack, with her ankles bound and a stone around her neck. The Germans in Paris announce the execution of a 73rd victim in occupied France as a reprisal for attacks against Germans.

A Rome decree prescribes death for anyone in annexed territories participating in revolt, attempting to assassinate Italian officials, sabotaging or pillaging.