NAZI MURDERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1941, Page 5

NAZI MURDERS

ANOTHER 100 FRENCHMEN SHOT IN REVENGE FOR KILLING OF GERMANS. THREAT OF STILL FURTHER MASSACRE. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, October 24. One hundred more Frenchmen taken as hostages by the Germans in occupied France were shot this morning. Fifty were shot for the killing of the , Nazi commandant in Nantes, Lieutenant-Colonel Holtz, bringing the total killed in revenge for his death to 100. The second 50 shot this morning were in revenge for the death of the Nazi major killed in Bordeaux. The Germans announce that if those responsible for his death are not found by Sunday night, 50 more Frenchmen will lose their lives. A reward of £ 85,000 has been offered .for the revelation of those responsible. The proclamation attributes the “traitorous killing” of the officer to “cowardly assassins in the pay of London and Moscow.” General de Gaulle, the Free French leader, in a broadcast to the French people, said: “In the present circumstances, do not kill Germans.” It was only too easy for the enemy to retaliate against disarmed men, he said. He assured the French people that they would receive orders as soon as it was possible for them to take action from outside and inside. Reports state that all France is horrified at the extent and brutality of the reprisals for the killing of one German officer. One report says that the people of unoccupied France are stupefied, though the Vichy Government had forbidden the publication in that zone of the reprisal proclamation recently issued by the Nazi command-er-in-chief in France. ARCHBISHOP’S CHARGE 180,000 DONE TO DEATH IN YUGOSLAVIA. MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN. LONDON, October 23. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Lang, said that he had received a report from an authentic source stating that up to last August, 180,000 men, women and children had been murdered in Yugoslavia, and that murders were still continuing. In one district 600 people were hurled into a hole, and when it was found that some were still alive bombs were thrown in to finish them off.