WORLD SHOCKED

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20950, 1 November 1939, Page 8

WORLD SHOCKED

GERMAN PLANS

PRICE OF PETROL

NAZI BRUTALITY DELIBERATE TORTURES DEATH ONLY RELIEF (Omcial Wireless) (Received Nov. 1, 3.15 p.m.) Rugby, Oct. 31 There is already evidence that the publication of the White Paper, with its authoritative revelations of the conditions in the German internment camps and of Nazi persecution of Protestants, Catholics and Jews, has profoundly shocked the world opinion.

In Britain it was not generally realised that the brutalities that marked the Nazi treatment of political prisoners in the first frenzy of the Nazi revolution were being continued five and six years afterwards towards the present-day occupants of camps, and notably Jews. The Daily Telegraph in a leading article says:

“It would have been thought incredible that such naked savagery could exist in this century among civilised people who boast of their culture. But the evidence is both circumstantial and accredited by His Majesty’s Consuls in various German cities, as well as by reputable witnesses of four deeds of which they have themselves been the victims.

“Most of these reports and testimonies relate to the conditions endured in the concentration camp at Buchenwald, near Weimur, where August Goethe sleeps. In this camp have been herded thousands of Jews and non-Jews, guarded by men overseered by professional criminals. “The unhappy creatures condemned to this camp have found themselves subjected to a system of deliberate torture of mind and body, from which the only deliverance has been death. “The outside world has only to read these papers to realise that it is not merely democracy or political liberty that is at stake in the present struggle; it is civilisation itself; it is the very dignity of the human race.” Ghastly Tyranny The Times says: “Some day the ghastly tyranny of the Nazi regime must be repudiated by the Geiman people themselves. In the meantime it is the duty of the civilised countries to see that no foreign race be forced to submit one moment longer than is necessary to its blighting and paganising influence.” The Manchester Guardian says: ;“The camps are in themselves signs of the abolition of that acceptance of law which has divided the civilised from the uncivilised state.

“But they also are the prime weapon of the Hitlerite system, a weapon of terrorism, by which Nazism maintains itself, intimidates all possible opponents, avenges itself upon its victims, and breaks not only the bodies of those who actually suffer but the spirit of those who may.

, “Who cannot but wish that, however the war ends, Germany may free herself from this moral pestilence.”

’ Grim and Damning Document

The Daily Herald says: “Much ofit has been known before, but here you have it not as newly-discovered war propaganda but in the form of official documents received by the Foreign Office over the past two years.” i The Yorkshire Post says: “Probably the grimmest reading ever found within the sober covers of a British Government publication is 'afforded by the issue of this White Paper.” The Daily Mail says: “The world, reading this damning document, will be able to judge the value of Hitler’s atrocity allegations against the Czechs and Poles.”

750,000 FOR POLAND 2,000,000 IN EAST PRUSSIA PLIGHT OF JEWS (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Nov. 1, 3.15 p.m.)

COPENHAGEN, Oct. 31

The Politiken learns that the Nazis have decided to settle 750,000, Germans in Poland and 2,000,000 in East Prussia. Tne first bitch of 2000 from Estonia has already been safely housed. Several thousand Jews interned in Czechoslovakia have been sent to the Lublin area, from whence the Aryans have moved.

ANOTHER RISE IN AUSTRALIA THE THIRD THIS YEAR (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) SYDNEY, Oct. 31 The Minister of Trade and Customs announced that authority has been given for an increase of one penny a gallon in the price of petrol from today. The new prices will be Is lid for standard grade and 2s for super grade. This is the third penny increase in the retail price of petrol this year.