Appalling Crimes By Germans, Bulgarians

Northern Advocate, 8 October 1941, Page 5

Appalling Crimes By Germans, Bulgarians

(Rec. 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 7. Reports of unrest and persecution continue to be received from Nazioccupied countries. Heydrich, so called “protector,” has decreed the closure of synagogues in Bohemia and Moravia. He has also threatened to arrest Czechs talking to Jews in the streets, because this expresses an anti-German attitude. The German spokesman said the execution of the premier of Bohemia and Moravia (General Alois Elias) was postponed because his evidence is necessary in other cases. Twenty-seven more residents of Prague have been sentenced to death. Greeks Massacred “The -Times” Itsanbul correspondent states that Bulgarians in Greece have .ruthlessly massacred thousands of Greeks. Greek resistance is mainly passive, which has infuriated the Bulgars, who have exaggerated disturbances as an excuse for wiping out the Greeks. The Stockholm newspaper “Social Demokraten” reports that 2000 political prisoners are already held in Norwegian concentration camps, but the Germans are establishing three more to accommodate the numbers recently arrested.

Quislings In Schools Oslo council is replacing all the teachers and civil servants with Quisling followers. All literature unsympathetic to the Nazis will be publicly burned. Owing to repeated attempts to destroy railways from Oslo to Eidsvold and from Oslo to Kongsvinger, German security police issued a decree that all men between 21 and 25 in communes along the railways must report for watching the lines. Anyone refusing will be tried in German courts. Guards on-stretches on which sabotage occurs will be handed over to the Germans are severely sentenced. Retribution On being taken from the Seine, a woman’s body was identified, according to the Paris police, as Madame Tonia Masse, secretary to the founder of the Anti-Communist Volunteer Legion. She was strangled and then placed in a sack with a stone at her ankles and round her neck. Germans in Paris announce the 73rd execution in occupied France as a reprisal for attacks against the Germans. Paris radio announced an official order that persons whose normal residence is outside the French coastal zone must leave before November 19. A Rome decree prescribes the death sentence for anyone in annexed territories participating in revolt, attempting to assassinate Italian officials, sabotage or pillaging.