POLES CONSCRIPTED
Auxiliary Military Service (Rec. 7.30 p.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 14. According to recent information received by the Polish Government, the German authorities hr the occupied territories of Poland, as well as in the part unlawfully incorporated into the Reich, have imposed on Polish citizens conscription for auxiliary military service. Lists of those conscripted have been prepared by the so-called Arbeltsame —Ministry of Labour —and conscription notices are sent personally without any official publications. Refusal to obey involves heavy penalty. The conscripted are described as volunteers, and in many instances protests against such description have resulted in the disappearance of those protesting. The actual alms of this conscription are not known, states the Polish Telegraph Agency, and in some cases socalled volunteers have been informed unofficially that they will have to serve in auxiliary police or ambulance corps at the front. The Polish Government has decided to draw the attention of the Governments of Allied and neutral countries and world opinion to this new flagrant violation of the internationally recognised provisions of the Fourth Hague International Convention of 1907.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22043, 16 August 1941, Page 6
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179POLES CONSCRIPTED Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22043, 16 August 1941, Page 6
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