BALKANS HORROR
AXIS ATROCITIES GIRLS MALTREATED WILD BARRACKS SCENES (3pm) LONDON, June 28. Further details of Italian, Croat, and Hungarian atrocities against Serbs are filtering through from Yugoslavia, says The Times’ correspondent at Istanbul. Forty-five schoolgirls from leading Ljubljana families were taken to barracks and turned over to Italian soldiers. ’ Scenes of wild horror followed and the local population, alarmed by the girls’ 1 cries, stormed the barracks and attacked the soldiers. There were casualties on both sides. A complaint to the Vatican only resulted In the dismissal ol’ an Italian police commissioner. Croat Ustashis entered a church at Ogulin in which a Serbian wedding wls being celebrated arid took away the priest, the bride, and the bridegroom, whose bodies were found with nails driven into the feet. The Belgrade occupation authorities have forbidden the people to wash their clothes or bathe in the Danube or Suva Rivers because of the great number of mutilated bodies of Serbian men and women killed by Hungarians and thrown into the river floating down stream.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20823, 30 June 1942, Page 5
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