AUSTRIANS TO DIE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 102, 1 May 1943, Page 5

AUSTRIANS TO DIE

' (Rec. 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, April 30.! Twenty-one Austrians were sentenced to death in April for ' high treason, says the independent French news agency. They were charged with publishing and distributing anti-Ger-man propaganda and organising sabotage groups This brings the number of Austrians executed since the end ot November to 138, counting only those i whose death sentences have been published.

time, and despite misunderstandings the common people of this country have desired to see success crown the great experiment inaugurated there as a result of the revolution. Now the course of events has forged stronger bonds. Sons of Russia and Britain are shedding their blood on the battlefields to defeat the Nazis and Fascism, and to bring about a situation in which the United Nations can co-operate and build a world free from the terrors of war. "On this first day of May, which perhaps means more to the workers than many others, we send warm greetings to all the workers of the Soviet Union. In this small island there are no idle hands. Every person capable of working has willingly responded to our directions and willingly responded to the call to produce and fight in order to bring the day of our common victory nearer. In the factories, in the fields, at the lathes, in the shipyards, on the tractors, and in the mines the working people of Britain, as they go on with their production, will renew their great friendship for all those who are engaged in the same struggle in the great cities and broad spaces of the Soviet Union. We are conscious of what it means in your great country to arm and feed your wonderful Red Army. Our one thought, therefore, will be to produce more and to take every possible step that is open to us to get implements of war to our own armies and to yours, and to hasten the day when we can utilise the power of the United Nations in such a manner that it will finally crush these enemies of mankind."—B.O.W.