WHOLESALE MASSACRES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 107, 2 November 1942, Page 5

WHOLESALE MASSACRES

GERMANS IN WHITE RUSSIA

LONDON, October 31

The Germans are still carrying out wholesale massacres in White Russia,

says the "Soviet War News," the bulletin of the Russian Embassy in London. They have slaughtered 100,000 persons in the Minsk area, 20.000. at Pinsk, and 20,000■ at Shklovchin.

At Lyubin. they herded children together and buried them alive before the eyes of their parents, who were then shot. Germans at Lelchit-zy- burnt alive 150 children of "unreliable parents."

More than 2000 houses were burnt down in four days in the Vitebsk region. All the residents of the villages of Kurino and Ostrovetz were herded into houses over which paraffin was poured, and the houses were then -set on fire.

Polish circles in London have learned that, the Germans executed 55 reserve Polish hostages as a reprisal for sabotage on a railway near Warsaw. Fifty Poles who were taken as hostages following bomb explosions on Thursday in cafes, reserved i'or Germans ' are still, under threat of death.

A confidential letter which is beingcirculated ampng the Germans living in Sweden warns them not to ( provoke incidents or demonstrations against themselves, says the Stockholm, correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph." The letter states: "After the recent events in Norway, Sweden's attitude towards Germanophile Swedes has changed considerably for the worse. British and American reports alleging the execution of 200,000 civilians in the occupied, territories have strongly influenced ..Swedish.' circles. Therefore, it is advisable for you not tp give grounds for provoking, unpleasantness till further notice." "b

Berlin radio says that 11 Communists from the Bacska. district in Hungary were sentenced to death and two others to imprisonment for life for participating in acts of sabotage ancl banditry and the use of weapons directed against public, security. •