OCCUPIED COUNTRIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 July 1942, Page 4

OCCUPIED COUNTRIES

STARVATION IN GREECE ~RUGBY, July 1. Broadcasting from London last evening, the Greek Minister for Information said: “We shall never forget the ominous words of the Nazi commander in Athens, who said last Summer: ‘This people is a conquered people. Those who have ’been rich hitherto shall be reduced to poverty. The poor shall die of starvation.’ In preaching this gospel of bestial horror so characteristic of the Nazi ideology, for once this German spoke the truth.”

In Athens alone, the Minister said, , it was officially confirmed that between October and January 40,000 , persons died of starvation, and in , March the deaths had risen to an average of 500 a day. In addition, typhus was now taking a heavy toll, but in spite of all this the morale of the people was unbroken. In the mountains guerrillas were harassing the Germans and the Germans were retaliating by shooting hostages. CONCENTRATION CAMP HORROR (Recd. 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 30. _A Jersey City message states Louis Nevin, the Associated Press correspondent, who recently left Madrid, arrived here in z the Swedish liner Drottningholm from Lisbon. He said tne situation in Spain was unsettled, and full .of problems. He expressed the opinion that the Spaniards wouid. stiffly resist if Germany invaded Spain. Rpth Mitchell, who also arrived in the Drottningholm, and who joined the Jugoslav Chetnik guerrilla army in April, 1941, and was later arrested by the Gestapo, and after this spent nearly a year in twelve different concentration camps, said: Bombing is the way to beat Germany, because they cannot take it. The Chetniks are fighting magnificently in the Jugoslav Mountains, keeping five divisions of Germans engaged. The German concentration camps, she added, were filthy. She had been treated like a criminal. Men in camps were chained up. In the Liebenau concentration camp, there were 360 British and 56 American women prisoners. Ruth Mitchell brought back a basket made of string by British women prisoners, who presented it to Mr Roosevelt. She said that Red Cross parcels saved Their lives. It is doubtful whether they could have lived without them. POST-WAR RELIEF WASHINGTON, June 30. Mr Hull, at a Press conference, disclosed that he had opened discussions with Sir F. Leith Ross for the relief of the devastated war areas. Mr Hull said the discussions include plans for making available food, medicines, and other relief materials in the post-war era. jugoslavsTsentenced. (Recd. 1 p.m.) LONDON, July 1. It is reported from Rome that a special court sentenced to death nine Jugoslav Communists. Six others were sentenced but succeeded in escaping. Seven others were sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment.