COMMUNIST CHARGE

Grey River Argus, 30 January 1946, Page 5

COMMUNIST CHARGE

N.Z, Wipes Out the Maoris !

(N.Z.F.A. Special Correspondent). LONDON, January 28.

“New Zealand is accused of having entirely wiped out the Maoris, by the Communist newspaper ‘Humanite’, published in Paris," says the Paris correspondent of the “Manchester Guardian”. “This newspaper gave greatprominence to the action of the Soviet and the Ukraine in raising the questions of Greece and Indonesia. It publishes an article of remarkable violence against Britain. The British are accused of repeating in Indonesia the horrors of Oradour, a village wiped .out by the S.S. in France. In Greece, the British are accused of helping the equivalent of the French militiamen of hated memory, and allowing them to massacre right and left. The accusation against New Zealand was apparently an in.idental charge.”