GERMAN ATROCITIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 154, 28 December 1942, Page 5

GERMAN ATROCITIES

MORE CZECHS DIE

LONDON, December 26

Continuation of German atrocities is disclosed from occupied countries. The Germans have executed 14 more Czechs, two for-trying to escape to t'Se*"Aliies and the' others for treason and being in possession of arms. The Jewish Council in Amsterdam has advised Jews to keep a rucksack placed with their blankets and their warmest clothes, enabling immediate departure to the Westerbork camp, whence they will be deported east-' ward. Five Jews aged from 76 to 95 died at Westei'bork wiftiin a fortnight.] showing that the oldest Jews are not! spared deportation under conditions to which they succumb in the earliest stages. Rome radio says that a German military tribunal at Rennes, in Brittany, sentenced .25 Bretons to death on charges of sabotage. U.S. LABOUR CONDEMNATION

WASHINGTON, December 26

The president of the Congress of Industrial Organisations, Mr. Murray, issued a statement in the name of American labour condemning Nazi atrocities against Jewish and other peoples, "marking the greatest curse that ever afflicted mankind." He added: "American labour joins with the leaders of the United Nations in telling the Axis that the murderers will be tried and punished with the utmost severity." He also appealed to the peoples of Germany and the occupied countries to rise and cast out "those monstrous beings."