MARSEILLES TERROR
NAZIS SHOOT 250 PEOPLE RESISTANCE TO REMOVAL ZURICH, Jan. 27. The Journal de Geneve says more ♦han 250 persons were shot in Mar•eilles, including 70 women. Meanwhile, many of the 40,000 poorly-clad men, women, and children •whom the Germans ordered to walk 80 miles from their homes to a concentration camp are reported to be dying on the roadside owing to exhaustion and hunger. Many also are committing suicide. The authorities have already begun the demolition of more than 6000 buildings. The Germans rushed up tanks and guns to break the resistance. Many of those who barricaded themselves in tumbledown houses are firing on those approaching.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25136, 29 January 1943, Page 4
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