WAR ITEMS

Grey River Argus, 2 November 1942, Page 5

WAR ITEMS

(Rec. 11.45.) LONDON, Oct. 31. Berlin radio says that eleven Communists from Bacska, district, In Hungary, were sentenced to death, and two to life imprisonment, for participating in acts of sabotage and banditry, and for th P use of weapons directed against the public security. (Rec. 11.25.) LONDON, Oct. 31.

Polish circles in London nave learned that the Germans have executed fifty-five reserve Polish hostages as a reprisal for sabotage on a railway near Warsaw. • Another fifty Poles were taken as hostages, following bomb explosions on October 29, in cafes reserved for Germans. These Poles are still under the threat of death. (Rec. 11.30.) NEW YORK. Oct. 31. The New York “Times’s” Mexico City’s correspondent learns authoritatively that the Mexican Government has decided to send troops overseas. - •

Several mechanised divisions, equipped mostfly with modern weapons, are already being trained in cooperation with the United States High Command. ' CHICAGO, October 30. The Nazi' saboteur, Herbert Haupt, who has been executed, was employed until May, 1941, at the Simpson optical plant, w’here the secret Norden bomb-sight is produced, according to th fi testimony of a witngss at the Federal Court treason trial of six of Haupt’s friends and relatives.