TORTURED EUROPE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21093, 13 May 1943, Page 4

TORTURED EUROPE

NAZIS’ TERRIBLE POLICY MASSACRE & STARVATION ““ LQIWOJNTMayTv The Greek Minister of Finance says the Nazis are still carrying on their policy of massacre and physical devitalisation in Europe because it is their Satanic,resolve to eliminate competition after the war. Giving examples of present living conditions in Greece, he said -a pair of shoes cost 300 times as much as the pre-war price. Five hundred babies died ! of exhaustion in a children’s, hospital in Athens in a year. Professor Young, of the University of London, said that at one time famine conditions in Greece were worse than anything in Europe since the Middle Ages. .>

Hunger dropsy is now, rampant in Belgium. A Belgian professor said 80 per cent of schoolchildren have a pie-tubercular stage. He added that it was courting death for a Belgian mother to have a second child under war conditions. A book published in London entitled “Fighters in the Land of the Shadow of Death” tells of the plight of the people of Poland. It quotes a letter to the Prime Minister ot Poland. General Sikorksi. from the women of Poland, which says:— "Our only weapon is silence. We keep silent when our sons and daughters are dragged from their homes to be tortured: when German soldiers seize on children in the street or drown a begging Jewish child in the sewer. We keep silent when they hang our husbands in rows at the railway stations and herd us together with the butts of their revolvers to watch them die. You will r.ot find us the same women on your return home.”