DREADFUL TALE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 56, 7 March 1942, Page 3

DREADFUL TALE

ATROCITIES OF NAZIS SOVIET NOTES PUBLISHED Rugby, March 5. The British Government has pub- • iished as a 20-page pamphlet notes on !German atrocities which have been 'sent by M. Molotov, the Soviet Premier. to all the Governments with I which the Soviet Union has relation.". The first Note, in November, dealt • with atrocities against Red army prisoners. and a more recent one. in January. with those committed iagainst the civilian population. They fare produced together fully for the ■ first time by the authority of the I Government. A dreadful tale of villages wiped out. pillage of children’s clothes and ; food and hanging of neople who protested against it. labourers being forced to all sorts of degrading and labour, including the removal of mines, peasants being driven jfrom their homes like cattle, and other incidents that ordinarily would considered incredible are told in ' plain, frank language, based on irrejfutable facts. I The limitless anger of the Russian 1 neople can well be understood at jlearning that their children have been shot, priests bayoneted, and women ’driven in front' of infantry. The (•rimes against Red army prisoners litre equally abhorrent —prisoners run lover by tanks and burned ai. the stake, wounded bayoneted in hospitals iur left to die of ’ disease, wounded [stripped of their clothing and kept in starvation conditions. j The Soviet Government lays all the iresponsibility for these crimes at the ‘door of the Hitlerite German Govern[ment. "The Soviet people,” it says, "will never forgive the atrocities ot [rape, destruction, and mockery which the bestial bands of the German in|vaders have committed and are committing against the peaceful population o: our country.” —B.O.W.