MASS MURDER METHODS.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1941, Page 4

MASS MURDER METHODS.

XTEW depths of infamy-have been sounded by the Nazi dictatorship and its jackal ally in the threat to bombard Belgiade by land and air, and murder the whole of its civilian population, unless the Yugoslav troops maintaining a gallant resistance to invasion surrender. Even against the background of the innumerable and terrible crimes committed by the Axis partners —crimes to which a lurid addition has been made in the torture and murder of Russian war prisoners denounced a day or two ago by the Soviet Government—the threat barbarously to slaughter the peaceful population of the J ugoslav capital stands out as unspeakably vile.

Mere denunciations, however, of this intended atrocity obviously are of little use. The ultimate remedy is the extirpation of gangsterdonl in European and world affairs, but once again it may be asked whether, pending the application of that ultimate remedy, it is not just and expedient that the men responsible for atrocities —Hitler, Mussolini and those who may legitimately be bracketed with them in that category —should be judged and sentenced by the Allied Powers, and a solemn undertaking entered into that no peace settlement will be concluded which does not provide expressly for these sentences being carried into effect.