POLES CONSCRIPTED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20638, 19 August 1941, Page 9

POLES CONSCRIPTED

ACTION BY GERMANS FATE OF OBJECTORS LONDON, Aug. 14. According to recent information -< ceived by the Polish Government the German authorities in occupied Poland as well as in the part unlawfully incorporated in the Reich, have imposed on Polish citizens conscription for auxiliary military serviev. Lists of those conscripted have been prepared by the so-called Arbeitsame —Ministry of Labour—and conscription notices are sent personally without any official publication. Refusal to obey involves a heavy penalty Those conscripted are described as volunteers and in many instances protests against such a description have resulted in the disappearance of those protesting. The actual aims of this conscription are not known, states the Polish telegraph agency, and in some cases socalled volunteers have been informed, unofficially,- that they will have tc serve in the auxiliary police or ambulance corps at the front. The Polish Government has decided to draw the attention of the Governments of Allied and neutral countric: to this flagrant violation of the inter-nationally-recognised provisions of the Fourth Hague International Convention of 1907. i