WAR ITEMS

Grey River Argus, 28 April 1942, Page 4

WAR ITEMS

LONDON, April 26, The “Sunday Times’’ Ankara correspondent states: 150,000 people have been arrested and thrown into concentration camps, and 125,000 .lews have been killed since the establishment of Antonescu’s new order in Rumania. Terrible conditions are prevailing in the camps. A typhoid epidemic is feared. Jews have been ejected from entire areas in Bukovina. (Bessarabia and Moldavia, and their estates confiscated. Discontent'is growing aga’nst the re-

gime, and Antonescu is facing a revival’ of Iron Guard activity. Handbills signed by Maniu, ex-Premier and Leader of the Peasant Party, were distributed in Bucharest, and posted on the city’s walls, criticising the award of Transylvania to Hungary, also enumerating the enormous Rumanian losses in Russia, urging the recall of troops for the occupation cf Transylvania.

’ It is learned in London that seven Belgians were sentenced to death, and six sentenced to penal servitude for sabotage, and for being members of the Whie Brigade, whjch is

a secret organisation which is believed to be preparing to support an Allied invasion of the Continent. Malta’s claim to be the most bombed area in the world is supported ky the d'sctojsure that during March the weight of bombs dropped on the island was 2000 tons —an average of 90 tons daily. It is also stated that during the four months ended April 19 more than 11,000 enemy aircraft have flown over the island in day and night sorties. Of these, 200 have definitely been destroyed, and 250 others so severely damaged that it is unlikely that they regained their bases.