MURDER OF HOSTAGES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 82, 3 October 1941, Page 5

MURDER OF HOSTAGES

EXTENDED TO CROATIA

LONDON, October 2.

.All is stated to be quiet in Prague, but the Gestapo investigations are still going on. The Prime Minister, General Elias, was said today to be still alive. Earlier reports from Berlin said that he was shot yesterday with two other generals. He was found guilty of plotting high, treason and aiding the enemy. When two German airmen were shot in a dark street in Zagreb on Tuesday the Nazis said that ten Groats would die every time such incidents occur. The whole of Montenegro and southern. Dalmatia* are reported to be-simmering on the point of open revolt The quisling leader of Croatia is reported by the Italian Press as saying that guerrilla warfare in Yugoslavia cannot be stopped. Every railway I line, village, and bridge has to be strongly guarded. - YUGOSLAV VICTIMS. | It is announced in Yugoslavia that 60 persons have been executed for attempted wrecking, killing, and sabotage. Prague announces that 15 Czechs have been,' Shot, ..and that 110 Czechs were handed over to the Gestapo today. It is reported that the dynamiting of a cliff 50 miles from Bratislava held up railway traffic for 16 days.

Fifteen Poles have been shot and their bodies exhibited as a public warning. There have been conflicts between Bulgarians and armed Greeks.

In Norway the Germans have had to take official notice of the V campaign. They have ordered its Removal from houses and also ordered it to be replaced with the words "Germany is winning." With German thoroughness they demand that the new words shall be the same size as the sign replaced.