SERBS AS PREY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 117, 20 May 1941, Page 7

SERBS AS PREY

EXTERMINATION EFFORT

INVADERS' HATRED

LONDON, May 19. The Germans, Hungarians, and Bulgarians in Yugoslavia are competing in cold-blooded massacres, aiming at the extermination of the Serbians, says the Istanbul correspondent of "The Times." It is conservatively estimated that since the invasion there have been 50,000 victims of mass executions. I At Vrsec a priest and 29 other persons were hanged, while at Alibunar a professor and 70 students were shot. The correspondent says this is typical ,of the happenings in practically every Serbian town and village. : Priests are a special object of the i invaders' hatred. The Patriarch Gavrilo w£s brought to Belgrade and his clerical robes were removed; he was confined in his underclothes to the ground floor of a building where he was in view of the passers-by. Eighty thousand Serbs have been expelled from the territory that is now allocated to Hungary, and thousands more have been expelled from Serbian Macedonia by the Bulgarians. Husbands are separated from their wives, and mothers from their children. In spite of the deliberate attempt at extermination, the Serbians are maintaining their offensive spirit, and between 50,000 and 60,000 Serbians, commanded by officers of the Yugoslav army, are continuing guerrilla war- * fare in the mountains of Bosnia and Montenegro and also around Kragujevac—U.P.A. -