YUGO-SLAV STRIFE
NUMEROUS KILLINGS. (Rec. 8.20). LONDON, Sept. 24. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Istanbul correspondent says: “Guerilla war is ragin°- over almost the whole ot Yugoslavia, with fierce fighting progressing in the vicinity of the mam railways, and even surroundings of Zagreb being unsafe, according to news trickling from the Balimns. Widespread disturbances began three weeks ago. Sixty-six executions have been carried out in Croatia alone since Friday, the victims being shot or hanged immediately after being sentenced. Two men were executed. merely for not reporting to tne authorities. “Two thousand women and chiiaren have arrived in Zagreb, and their menfolk are officially reported to have been wiped out by Communists in Bosnia. . .. The Zagreb correspondent of tne Associated Press of Great Britain says: Serbian outlaws have killed six Croatian officers and nmetveight soldiers. The latter had demanded their surrender.
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Grey River Argus, 25 September 1941, Page 5
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