REGIME OF TERROR IN POLAND

Southland Times, Issue 23990, 4 December 1939, Page 7

REGIME OF TERROR IN POLAND

CRACOW PROFESSORS SENT TO GERMANY (Received December 3, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, -December 2. The Polish Ambassador (Count Edward Raczynsky) handed the Foreign Secretary (Lord Halifax), who promised earnest attention, the protest against the German terror regime published by the Polish Prime Minister (General Wladislaw Sikorski). The protest states that nowhere else has the enemy so ruthlessly treated a defenceless population. Horrifying reports arrive from the German-occu-pied areas, where the Gestapo and Black Guards rule. Property has been seized from the owners, who are evicted, so that the entire population can be driven away. Human life has become the sport of ferocious bestial hangmen. Leading citizens of Western Poland are being shot one after another and their names are whispered through a horror-stricken country. All the professors of Cracow University were deported to Germany in a single day. Poland under the Nazis hag become a soil of martyrdom. Nazi savagery is writing a new and ominous page in the history of German cruelty. RELEASE OF WOOL IN UNITED STATES QUANTITY NOT CONSIDERED SUFFICIENT (Received December 3, 7.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 2. Mr Arthur Besse, chairman of the Associated Wool Industry, says that the release of 10,000,0001 b of wool by Britain does not contribute to solving the problem. American mills ai-e waiting to plan their 1940 production. The natural reaction will be that they will buy as much as possible in other markets, if they open, in preference to the restricted British market. It is obviously impossible for the United States buyers to purchase from this insignificant release without knowing the quantity and time of further releases. It would be more helpful to the United States market and Britain if the British would consult the interested parties and prepare a comprehensive programme for the disposal of the wool. > •