BESTIAL SAVAGERY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1942, Page 4

BESTIAL SAVAGERY

OF THE NAZI GANGSTERS ROOSEVELT URGED TO GIVE LAST WARNING. APPEAL BY EUROPEAN STATES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, July 31. Norway, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Yugoslavia, and the French National' Committee have collectively appealed to President Roosevelt requesting him to address a last warning to Germany and the other Axis Powers against the barbaric and inhuman crimes committed daily in occupied countries. _ The shootting of 20 French hostages at Chavannes, following the wrecking of a heavily-laden German troop train in Normandy, has been reported to General de Gaulle’s headquarters. Twenty men were chosen from every town in the department, and shot without anyone being advised what was going to happen. Another message states that the victims were driven to the place of execution, some of them sitting on their own coffins.

King Haakon of Norway, who celebrates his 70th birthday on August 3, received a message from Norwegian patriots assuring him that they will fight on in Norway. The line of battle chosen by them, the message stated, was not dependent on the Allies’ war effort, or even on the outcome of the war. They would never surrender.