EXECUTIONS IN POLAND

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22906, 30 December 1939, Page 9

EXECUTIONS IN POLAND

Given To Gestapo army said to BE JEALOUS .(Received December 29, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 29. The special correspondent of “The Tunes”-, in the Polish town of •Kahscz, which the German Army, destroyed in 1914 because the population refused to submit to German rule, says that the town is again he scene of German brutality. The largest church has been transformed into a prison. The Gestapo have decreed that ?°jf s , Jews shall receive only half the food rations to which Germans are entitled. . Executions are a daily occurrence. A priest and five landowner? were executed in the market-place on -'inarket day. The only charge against iIfPV. was the possession of arms, winch proved to be sporting rifles. A__ British Official Wireless mes- - says that reports of con- • Qitions in Polish territory ocby Germany—other than me official .'Nazi version of ?y? nt s—are not easy to come by, out the most recent intelligence rec® lve d in London through reliable channels affords striking evidence of , growing jealousy between the Tv, my anc * err Himmler’s Gestapo. - i a . rrn X. resents the increasing . .authority given to the Gestapo, and jf e is obviously a lack of co- ,® r “, lna tion between them, r",'-' Thus Germany is obliged to mainL am large armed forces in the occu--Pieu territory to prevent major ris..mgs as much as to deal with the ® aar rilla operations of Polish bands still hiding in the forests. 'V According to information in which 5.. , c ° nsi< lerable confidence may be fhe Gestapo, wherever their ',-., au thority is supreme, confiscate all [ . es t at e as well as commercial industrial undertakings belong.mg to Poles. The proprietors are & Put into concentration camps or de'{■farted to Germany. It is believed g.-tnat in four provinces alone 15,000 ..nave been shot, including many ,1 "'.Priests and women, iV‘ 'Something resembling a systematic f- U ana ruthless extermination of C;.?J L^ura l or potential leaders among ’ .l- tne Poles would appear to be in prohjpess. The arrest early in Novem.f r an< J the deportation to Germany ■7- of all but three professors of the #£: Jsgellonian University of Krakow, is L'-'Sufficient evidence in this connexion.