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OMINOUS NOTE IN NAZI STREAM ATROCITY STORIES
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Mass raids and deportations to
out constantly.
Many of the victims
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Gestapo are sent to forced labour
Meantime the Nazi war of nerves has concentration camps are carried reached a stage of utmost violence, German propaganda is clearly directed to endeavour create confusion and disorganisation within Yugoslavia.
to
Conflicting reports are being will any credence be given to put about, threats alternating these reports. with cajolery, predictions that Belgrade Not Deceived war is inevitable being followed by assurances of the possibility of a peaceful settlement,
Purpose of these tactics is fully appreciated in Belgrade and the The all too familiar techn! Sinovitch Government has the que resorted to by the Nazis internal situation well in hand. So often in preparation for i The Premier's spirited order of successive acts of aggression the day was welcomed in London since the annexation of Austria as a sign that his Government as is being faithfully followed. a whole is unmoved by The cue given by the Wilhelm-pressure. strasse, that anti-German de- To the armed forces he said: monstrations were spreading "The army, a'r force and navy are rapidly in Yugoslavia, was at prepared to do their duty," to cl- once taken up by German-con- vilians: trolled radio statios.
con-
Constant Stream
"Atrocity" stories were again yesterday poured out in a s'ant stream, and the Berlin radiq sounded an ominous nele when it stated that developments led to the assumption that a "se- cond Bromberg" threatened Ger. (Bromberg mans in Yugoslavia. figured largely in fabricated Nazi allegations of the treatment of Germans in Poland before the 1939 invasion).
no
Nazi
in Germany, where they are em-
ployed at most dangerous work,
and under the worst conditions.
Others are sent to concentra- tion camps, where they suffer the most degenerate cruelty.
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The most notorious camp
is near Oswiecim, near Cracow, on the former Polish-Czech frontier. Only very few are being re- leased from this camp.
Those who are because of serious illness or through influen- tial intervention must sign a declaration that they will never disclose what they have witness- ed in the camp.
But horrible facts about the treatment in this camp have been revealed by a man who escaped.
"The interest of the country demands that you shall guard your homes and if necessary defend them at the cost of your lives for the sake of the Father-
He was arrested in Warsaw land, King Peter and the nation." during a street raid and impri- There are signs that Axis di- soned with others in the riding plomacy in the Balkans has be❘ school of a cavalry regiment. come embarrassed by a shrewd suspicion of the former's res- ponhibility forf orcing her un fucky junior partner into disastrous naval action.
Growing Burden
the
In informed circles in London It is believed that a general ser- "The Times" yesterday re- ious weakening in Axis, strength marked: "It seems almost to be has in consequence resulted, and a sign of staleness on the part that Italy must from now on be a of Hitler that he does not get growing burden to Germany, like away from the same old tricks." Austria in 1917 and 1918. .: The atrocity tales contain
With no heart in the war her novel features--they tell of "in-
deficiences must constantly- be dignities," "beatings up" and made good by the Nazis. "murders" of Germans. Nowhere!
Italy, it may be assumed, hears outside the Axis countries and
with growing anxiety the mount- those of their subservient friends ing note of bellicosity towards Yugoslavia in the German press. Italy has to consider her position In Albania If, in an effort to re- trieve the fallure of Ribbentrop's blackmail on the Tvetchkovitch regime, Germany should provoke hostilities with Yugoslavia. Bri-
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They were held there for two days, their only food being a small ration of bread and water.
Then they were loaded on cat- tle trucks which were so crowd- ed that it was impossible to sit down on the floor.
Bread Ration
All they got as food was one of bread, and the day's ration journey to Oswiecim lasted three davs.
The conditions in Oswiecim camp are apt to cause the break- down of any man over 45 within a fortnight.
At road-building work a num- ber of prisoners, are harassed to a heavy street-roller and forced to drive it on by terrific beating.
Some of the prisoners are not shod and are forced to drive the roller on the gravel barefooted.
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The slightest. displeasure their Nazi masters brings punish- ment to the prisoners.:
THIEF HELPED SAVE 50 PATIENTS, GAVE HIMSELF AWAY
THERE IS A London job awaiting 62-years-old James Beddie-Young when he has served his six- months sentence in Dundee for theft.
He earned it during a recent back to the institution-and his night raid in the London arca old job. when he crawled from bomb de- bris with two head wounds and prevented panic among 50 men patients of an institution
"He Was Grand"
Bister Haddock, who worked beside Young after the bomb had dropped, rald: "He was grand. When the bomb dropped he was reading a newspaper in the alt- ting-room;
Ho refused medical attention and urged 'doctors and nurses to continue treating the wounded while: single-handed, he calmed "Somehow he managed to crawbe ward of male Inmates while bombs | out. Tróm" under the debris... He still dropped. An i had two cuts in his head which His bravery put Scotland Yard were bleeding bidly; but he car- on his track and landed him be-rled on and calmed a whole ward hind bars. He was wanted for of men patients. P stealing £35 108, from a fellow lodger în Dundee. «
He came us about two months ago as a' male nurse from '. Despite his criminal record, the Dundee. We will be glad to have doctor. In charge wants Young him back despite his record " back; When he was arrested the When Young was convicted of*- offered through the local C.L.D. to the theft he said nothing about pay the man's fine and his fare, his rescue work-