EXECUTIONS IN SERBIA

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23515, 18 December 1941, Page 5

EXECUTIONS IN SERBIA

900 Communists Shot At Uzice

GERMANS ATTACKED IN PARIS

(Received December 17, 8.30 pm.) LONDON, December 16. More than 900 Communists, including women, were shot when German occupation troops took Uzice, one Of the Jugoslav patriots’ main strongholds. General Nedic, the puppet Prime Minister, has established tribunals in Belgrade to try Communists and terrorists. The Official German News Agency says that 60 Communists in Belgrade, including six women, have been executed. A lawyer and a schoolmistress have also been executed in the Tchatak region, where a further 150 are waiting trial. It is reported from Vichy that a bomb exploded this evening in a German military police mess in Paris. This was the third attack on Germans in Paris to-day. It is reported in London that a secret Social Democrat radio station operating in Austria to-day appealed to all Austrian soldiers, workers, and farmers to join the secret movement against Hitler and Fascism and liberate the country from the Germans. The announcer told his listeners to go to meet Austrian soldiers recovering from wounds received in the east and stationed in the Vienna woods, where many important decisions of the movement had been taken.

TWOMAN SUBMARINE

AMERICAN NAVY REPORTS CAPTURE

WASHINGTON, December 16. The United States Navy Depart* ment has reported the capture Of a tiny two-man Japanese submarine. This submarine was launched from a vessel 100 miles off Hawaii. It is obviously a suicide craft, with a range of only 200 miles. It has a beam of 3 feet, is 41 feet long, and has a 4-foot conning-tower. Its sire makes the vessel easy to launch over the side of a ship.