LAND BLOCKADE OF BELGRADE

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 42, 13 November 1941, Page 7

LAND BLOCKADE OF BELGRADE

Admission By Mayor

EFFECTIVE WORK OF GUERRILLAS (By Telegraph.—Press' Assn.—Copyright.) (Received November 12, 8.40 p.m.) LONDON, November 11. “Serb terrorists are trying to starve out Belgrade,” said the mayor of the capital in a broadcast today. “Not a single bushel of wheat has reached the city since the harvest, because the terrorists are interrupting-transport.” The Belgrade newspaper “Vreme” says that more than 900 Communists were killed in the first week of November in battles between guerrillas and General Neditch’§ troops.

It is officially announced in Rome that three bombs were thrown at a regimental band of an alpine troops division who were marching to a band concert at Split, Dalmatia, yesterday, killing one soldier and wounding 23 soldiers and 25 civilians. Almost simultaneously a lorry loaded with troops going on leave was hit with a burst of machinegun fire. Several of the troops were wounded. Immediately 150 Communist hostages were taken into custody, where, the statement says, they will remain till the guilty persons have been identified. An Italian casualty list reveals that 179 Italian soldiers were killed and 120 wounded during October in Yugoslavia and Greece. It is learned in London that the Bulgarian Government has ordered the employees of railways and harbours to come under military discipline.

Prague radio stated that seven Czechs, including a stationmaster and income tax collector, have been executed for high treason and sabotage. Dr. Jan Masaryk in London today said that the recent wave of executions in Czechoslovakia resulted from a split between the German army and Gestapo. He predicted that there would be an open breach soon. The mass executions had failed to suppress the Czechs, who were more determined and more angry than ever.