ALLEGED MURDERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1944, Page 4

ALLEGED MURDERS

4, IN GERMAN PRISON CAMP DENIED BY BRITISH AIR MINISTRY NAZI CHARGES AGAINST ALLIED AIRMEN TRIAL BY PEOPLE’S COURTS THREATENED (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 11.54 a.m.) LONDON, May 23. The Berlin radio announced that the German Supreme Command deems it necessary to place before the world a number of outrageous violations of international law by the British and American air forces. There were, the enemy radio alleges, 20 such cases between January 24 and April 14. Since April 14, British and American attacks against hospitals, etc., have occurred almost daily. No dressing station, no hospital train, or transport of wounded soldiers is safe from attack. The attacked targets in all these cases were clearly marked with the Red Cross. The Berlin radio added that People’s Courts in future would try shot-down pilots suspected of breaches of international law. The "Daily Mail’s" Stockholm correspondent says a barrage of German propaganda has been launched against Allied airmen during the past 24 hours and adds: “Few here doubt that this is a counterblast to excuse the Stalag Luft 3 shootings.” The British Air Ministry has issued a statement: “It can be stated that nothing occurred at Stalag Luft 3 in the nature of the report which has appeared in the Press. The suggestion that guards ran riot and shot prisoners is without foundation. The Government, as already promised, will make a full statement as soon as a report is received from the protecting Power.” Reuter’s Stockholm correspondent .says the British Minister to Sweden, referring to reports that escapees from Stalag Luft 3 had reached Sweden, declared: “We have no information whatever. I have never heard of the presence in Sweden of any man who could have given an eyewitness account.”