MASSACRE OF JEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 47, 5 December 1939, Page 6

MASSACRE OF JEWS.

REPORTED NAZI ATROCITY. ! LONDON, December 4. The Jewish Telegraph Agency re- * ports from Wilno that 100 Jews were executed in the German poi-tion of Western Galicia. Nearly all the synagogues have been burnt down. The Nazis are reported to have massacred 200 Jews at Dynow, and 40 at Usicie Solne, near Krakow. They shot 19 Jews at Limanowa, Sanok, and neighbouring districts. Nine hundred families were expelled from Sanok.

MACHINE-GUN COMMAND. COLONEL INGLIS APPOINTED. The command of the 27th Machine Gun Battalion of the Special Force will he taken over this week by Colonel L. M. Inglis, M.C., of Timaru. The temporary commander of the unit, Colonel S. D. Mason, will resume his appointment as officer commanding the 23rd Rifle Battalion (second echelon). Forty-five years of age, Colonel Inglis, who is in practice at Timaru as a solicitor, is generally regarded as the outstanding machine-gun officer in the Dominion. Beginning his military service as a cadet at the Waitaki Boys’ High School, Colonel Inglis was commissioned in 1912, when still with the cadets. On leaving school he joined the 2nd South Canterbury Regiment. He saw extensive war service, beginning in 1915 with the 2nd Battalion of the Rifle Brigade. He commanded what was then the machine-gun section of this unit, and iwas later second-in-com-mand of A Company, under the present Officer Commanding the Southern Military District (Colonel P. H. Bell, D. 5.0.), as company commander. For conspicuous work in clearing Fleurs village during the battle of the Somme in 1916, he was awarded the Military Cross.