CZECH SENTENCES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 28 October 1941, Page 5

CZECH SENTENCES

HELP TO AGENTS DROPPED BY PARACHUTE London, Oct., 27. ■ i The Prague radio revealed that 1 death sentences on six persons at Brno 1 yesterday were for assisting enemy j agents dropped by parachute in Boi hernia and Moravia. Those sentenced (not only hid the parachutists and failled lo inform the authorities but objstructed investigations. A Czech geni darme even handed his rifle to a paraI chutist. ! The German authorities told the ! population that information concerning saboteurs would be treated confidentially and rewards given if a cap- •, lure were made. t HUNGER IN GREECE p London, Get.. 26. 1 : The Istanbul correspondent of the -, ‘Daily Telegraph” says that the’eap- . 1 tain of the steamer Kurtulus, after his B return from Greece reported that hage gard crowds greeted the ship in s Piraeus. Barefooted children almost L stormed the Kurtulus crying pitifully y-1 for food. The captain when he went j ashore found fully 80 per cent of the s port’s shops closed. He saw no horses, 1 dogs or cats, he said, because all had 2 been eaten. Residents described Athens :i to him as a gaunt, hungry city, its g streets and parks deserted and the 2 j women rarely venturing out of doors 2 j because the danger of assault was too r j great. 2! The captain of a Greek merchantf j man on his arrival in Turkey after making an escape from Greece reportled that the R.A.F. has destroyed all I the stocks of oil in Piraeus in fires 1 which burned for four days. The harbour was strewn with sunken shipping, which the Germans were desperately striving to salvage. Only a few official cars belonging to the army of occupa- • tion were 1 een in the .-1 re< t - Though the conqueror's fiag now flew 3 from the Acropolis, the Greeks did not ’ regard the Italians as their masters, 1 and showed contempt for them. The 1 Germans were still in control of the - Piraeus, though Italians were used 1 for policing the city. Street brawls were frequent.—U.P.A.