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MASSACRES OF POLES London. Sept. 24. i Aiming to make post-war reconI ciliation impossible, the Germans had stirred up Lithuanians to massacre i Poles, and led Hungarians and BulI garians against Serbs and Croats. ■ says the diplomatic correspondent of The Times. The Germans are using the Lithuanians as tools to exterminate the Poles in the Vilna province. i They fix quotas for forced labour in Germany, and leave the selection to Lithuanians who naturally chose i mostly Poles. When three German officials were ambushed and killed. German and Lithuanian troops made ' a joint punitive raid on a district in which 400 Poles were killed. ; The Geslano ordered 4 he Lithuanian I police to round up 1000 Pol°s from a , radius of 30 miles. Most of them were | shot.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 228, 28 September 1942, Page 5
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