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MURDER OF 300 HOSTAGES. MAN’S TONGUE TORN OUT. s' GESTAPO ACTS IN POLAND. (Received This Day, 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, December 4. The Paris correspondent of “The Times” states that the Polish Information Bureau says that 300 of 350 hostages at Gdynia were shot in batches after digging their own graves, the Gestapo shooting them with revolvers while those not yet murdered were compelled to look on. Of the victims included were the Port Director, judges, clergymen, a bank director and a professor. (Mass executions are reported from Posnania and Pomerania. The. Gestapo arrested, a number of students because a window was broken at Oburzo. They ordered the lads’ parents to whip them before the church. The parents refused and were clubbed. The statement alleges that the tongue of a Polish member of Parliament was torn out.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 47, 5 December 1939, Page 6
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