PERSECUTION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 86, 8 October 1941, Page 8

PERSECUTION

VENGEFUL NAZIS

THE OCCUPIED COUNTRIES

MANY NEW REPORTS

(Rec. 1 p.m.) LONDON, October 7. Reports of unrest and persecution continue to be received from Nazioccupied countries. Heydrich* has decreed the closing of synagogues in Bohemia and Moravia and has also threatened to arrest Czechs who talk to Jews in the streets, because this expresses an anti-German attitude. A German spokesman said that the execution of Elias was postponed because his evidence was necessary in other cases. Twenty-seven more people in Prague have been sentenced to death.

The Istanbul correspondent of "The Times" states that Bulgarians in Greece have ruthlessly massacred thousands of Greeks. The Greek resistance is mainly passive, which has infuriated the Bulgars, who have exaggerated the disturbances as an excuse for wiping out the Greeks.

A Stockholm message says the "Social Demokraten" reports that two thousand political prisoners are already in Norwegian concentration camps, but the Germans are establishing three more to accommodate fresh prisoners. The Oslo council is replacing all teachers and civil servants with quislingites, and all literature unsympathetic to Nazism will be publicly burned. Owing to repeated attempts to destroy the railways from Oslo to Eidsvoll, and Oslo to Kingsvinger, the German security police have decreed that all men between twenty-one and twentyfive in the communes along the railways must report for watching the lines. Anyone refusing to do so will be tried in German courts. .The guards on stretches on which sabotage occurs will be handed over to the Germans and severely sentenced. A woman's body found in the Seine has. beenidentified, according to the Paris police, as Madame Tonia Masse, secretary to the founder of the Anti-Communist Volunteer Legion. She was strangled, and placed in a sack with her ankles bound and a stone around her neck.

The Germans in Paris announce the execution of the seventy-third victim in occupied France as reprisal for attacks against the Germans."

A decree issued in Rome prescribes death for anyone in the annexed territories participating in revolt, attempting to assassinate Italian officials, sabotaging, or pillaging.