NAZI ATROCITIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1942, Page 4

NAZI ATROCITIES

IN OCCUPIED EUROPE MASSACRE OF JEWS IN POLAND SAVAGE THREATS IN FRANCE. AGAINST THE FAMILIES OF SABOTEURS. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, July 13. According to a Stockholm message, on June 22 and 23 the Germans executed half the Jewish population of Chubjeshov, Poland, totalling from 2000 to 3000. The other half was driven from the town to a primitive, unhealthy suburb, where the death rate is reported to be appalling. Chubjeshov, in the Lublic district, had a peace time population of between 15,000 and 20,000, half of whom were Jewish. The Paris radio broadcast a warning by the German chief’of police that, because of the number of acts of sabotage and attacks against Germans in France and the “trouble caused by persons in the pay of the British and the Russians,” in future not only attackers, saboteurs and trouble-makers, but also their families will be punished.

If the culprit is not found within ten days after the act is committed, all the male members of his family over 18 will be shot, all female members will be sent to forced labour and all children up to 17 taken into "supervised houses of education.” A similar decree has been announced in Hungary. A Moscow message says that a German engineer and five workers were sentenced to death at Frankfurt for sabotage at the Aldewerke and Grudenelectrol chemical factories.