EXECUTIONS BY NAZIS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 44, 21 February 1942, Page 7

EXECUTIONS BY NAZIS

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RUGBY, February 19,

A new wave of executions through* out occupied Europe is suggested bjf. reports reaching London.

In France 45 more hostages are reported to have been shot on Rouen! racecourse, at the orders of the Nazf Governor, Stulpnagel, as a reprisal fo? attacks on Germans.

Ah additional three Frenchmen were executed recently for being "do Gaullists," and two for espionage and illegal possession of arms.

One of five young Frenchmen who! recently escaped in a motor-boat frornl France said it was not generally known outside France that, on an average, two executions daily have been taking place in occupied France since thai armistice. Notices are made publia every 24 hours. Dr. Hans Franck, Hitler's Governor in occupied Poland, is stated to hava issued a circular containing the names of 20,000 Poles who are wanted fop subversive activities. The circular, containing photographs, is now in the hands of the Gestapo.

Acts of sabotage at the Skoda work* are said to be increasing. Seventeen persons were recently killed, and a . large number arrested by the Gestapo, following a strike there.

At Kaunas 42 "Communists" are reported by Stavanger radio to have beenj shot for "murder, arson, and associating with and abetting Jews." In Holland, according to a Dutchman who escaped recently, secret societies of child saboteurs are springing up, whose avowed purpose is to make the lives of the German occupation troops untenable. The placing of sugar and sand iri petrol tanks, slashing of tyres, cutting of signal wires on railways, and setting of innumerable bodby traps are among the routine duties the children have undertaken.—B.O.W.