NEW NAZI ORDER

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 41, 16 August 1941, Page 10

NEW NAZI ORDER

CONSCRIPTION OF POLES

AUXILIARY MILITARY DUTY

RUGBY, August 14. According to recent information received by the Polish Government, the German authorities in occupied Poland, as well .as in the part unlawfully incorporated into the Reich, have imposed on Polish citizens conscription for auxiliary military service. Lists of those conscripted have been prepared by the so-called Arbeitsame (Ministry of Labour), and conscription notices are sent to each person without any official publication. Refusal to obey involves a heavy penalty. Those conscripted are described as "volunteers," and in many instances protests against such a description have resulted in the disappearance of those protesting. The actual aims of this conscription are not known, states the Polish Telegraph Agency, but in some cases the so-called volunteers have been informed unofficially that.they will have to serve in auxiliary police or ambulance corps at the front. The Polish Government has decided to draw the attention Of the Governments of the Allied and neutral countries and world opinion to this new, flagrant violation of the internationally recognised provisions of the fourth Hague International Convention 'of 1907.—8.0. W.