REVOLT IN SERBIA
DEVELOPING ON GREAT SCALE IN SPITE OF MASS EXECUTIONS NAZI TERRORISM DEFIED. DESTRUCTION OF FOREST COVER. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, March 5. A thousand Serbians have been executed in Ja German effort to stamp out a revolt which, although nearly quelled, is expected to break out anew in the spring, states the Berlin correspondent of the “Tinringen.” ( These figures are derived from a statement that for every murdered German, a hundred Serbians have been put to death. The magnitude of the insurrection can be gauged from a German statement that a further 10,000 insurgents have been killed in lighting. So seriously do the Germans rcgai'tl the guerilla warfare in Serbia that they have; decreed that all forests and bushes are to be cut on both sides of railways and highways to a depth of 500 metres.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1942, Page 4
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144REVOLT IN SERBIA Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1942, Page 4
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