RULE BY MURDER

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20602, 1 November 1941, Page 9

RULE BY MURDER

VICTIMS OF NAZIS ANOTHER 50 SLAVS FRENCH PRODUCTION ROLE (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Oct. 31, 2.50 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 30. Another 50 Yugoslavs have been executed by a firing squad at Belgrade as a reprisal for the wounding of German sentries. The Berlin correspondent of the British United Press reports that a batch of several hundred Jews left Berlin yesterday for a destination somewhere in Poland. The Jews were assembled in a railway goods yard in a Berlin suburb. The police tried to make the departure as inconspicuous as possible. It is understood that this was only one of almost daily transports of Jews from Berlin in the past 10 days. Free French agents in France report that German borpbers deliberately bombed 200 French workers herded behind barbed wire. This -was done just after a Royal Air Force raid on the district, so as to put the blame on the British. The workers were rounded up when they went to protest against non-payment of wages. Details of the part which France is to be forced to play in Hitler’s European armament drive were handed to Vichy officials by M. Debrinon and M Scapini, who have just returned from Berlin. All occupied countries have been called upon to co-operate in producing weapons for the German army. France will be required to triple the production of various parts required for German tanks, planes and guns. Factories must be turned over for this purpose forthwith, and where necessary workers must be “disciplined” along German lines. A Zurich message says that the population _of * Belgrade has been ordered to cut down trees in parks and public gardens to provide heating material. The wood is handed over to the Germans, who decide on the distribution. The cold is now intense and coal is not obtainable.