BELGRADE IN RUINS
HORRIBLE SCENES IN BOMBING.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN SHOT.
HOSPITALS AND CHURCHES * DESTROYED.
|United Press Association—Copyright ) (Roc. 12.80 p.m.) LONDON, April 9. Unloosing a veritable deluge of incendiaries and high-explosives, German bombers converted Belgrade to a mass of ruins and covered the streetsi with the bodies of children, women and old men, states a message from the Yugoslav Government to all civilised people.
Belgrade, which in good time was proclaimed an open, undefended city, was bombed by German aircraft on Sunday morning without a declaration of war while the church hells were calling the faithful to church. The attack eclipsed in horror anything imaginable. The Germans ignored most of the precepts of international right and human consideration. They destroyed all the hospitals, churches, schools and cultural institutions. Thirty bombs demolished the Royal Palace. Dr. Koulovetz (leader of the Slovene people) was killed. There were horrible scenes .when women and children were machinegunned while fleeing from their burning homes. Thousands are homeless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 153, 10 April 1941, Page 6
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