WENT DOWN FIGHTING

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 92, 19 April 1941, Page 9

WENT DOWN FIGHTING

YUGOSLAV PEOPLE

A DESPERATE STRUGGLE

LONDON, April 18. The Germans today are repeating the claim that Yugoslavia has capitulated. There has been no denial of this, so there seems to be no longer any doubt that organised Yugoslav resistance has collapsed before the ruthless German onslaught. Observers at the war front give accounts which illustrate movingly how desperately the Yugoslavs struggled against the enemy. The Yugoslav army has been trying unsuccessfully, with rifles and ox-drawn artillery, to battle against the- German frontier divisions. One correspondent says that in Montenegro he 'found that the army had nipped the "fifth column" in the bud and traitors were lined up against the wall and shot. The spirit of Yugoslavia would stand as a wonderful example of courage. The people had chosen to' go down fighting, with the certainty of a share in the victory of the Allies. !By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.! (Received April 19, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, April 18. A correspondent who has just traversed much of Yugoslavia and watched the gallant army, with rifles and ox-driven artillery, try to drive off Hitler's hordes, -ays he did not see at any time masses of refugees fleeing from bombed towns. They died in their homes. The bombing of Belgrade was a massacre in which at least 10,000 people perished. Berlin commentators stress that the Yugoslav capitulation releases large forces to Greece. The swiftness of the German advances, they stated, shattered hope of Anglo-American help. The "Volkischer Beobachter" holds President Roosevelt largely responsible for the fate of Yugoslavia.