THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 18, 1941.
GRIM TALE OF NAZI SAVAGERY IN RAIDS ON BELGRADE
(By Reuter's Correspondent "Somewhere In
Yugoslavia")
THE DEATHROLL RESULTING FROM THE GERMAN AIR FORCE'S RAIDS ON BEL- GRADE MAY REACH 12,000, ACCORDING TO THE ESTIMATES OF OBSERVERS WHO SAW THE HORRORS.
Men who saw Rotterdam and Warsaw laid in ruins say that the onslaught on Bel- grade was even more severe.
After the first raid, I counted 200 dead alene on the main boulevard in the Terazije district in the centre of Belgrade.
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The War Office and the Prime Minister's office and most of the other Ministries had gone up in flames by noon of the first day Belgrade's leading hotel Serbuk Kral, was razed.
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President Roose- velt's popularity In the United States has reached its highest level, according to the results shown by the latest nationwide Gallup poll
Seventy three per cent of the voters expressed full com fidence in the Prest dent and only 27 per cent disapproved Reuter
CONCENTRATION OF INDUSTRY
STEADY PROGRESS is being made in carry- nding out the Government scheme for the concentra- tion of industry, whereby some firms will work to full capacity with Government assistance over la- bour and raw materials, and others will be closed down for the duration of the war, receiving com- within 500 feet to drop thepensation from those still operating, and with a Government guarantee of sympathetic help to re- open directly hostilities are concluded.
Some hundred German planes Divebombers swooped down to
attacked Belgrade m the first raid
tombs. The citizens of Belgrade.
tanding in the streets, seemed un-1 ble to grasp that the war was ad rady upon them. It was nothing ess than a massacre
After a further day and night of hombing. Belgrade presented a picture of one vast inferno, confined within the angle form ed by the intersection of the Save and Danube Rivers. Serbian fighter pilots shut down eighteen German bombers OVOL Belgrade alone.
Approved firms will be called nucleus" firms and in the cotton spamming industry. H1 mills have already been accepted by the Government
this
wile 61 malls are to be closed down and the position of the renaming 229 is under consideja.
tion.
The hosiery industry. which In the absence. of anti-aircraft consists, in the mait of under guns, Coldiers fired at the randers, with rides.
German Losses
As I left the city. 1 met Serbian tops who had received the first
N.Z. COLLECTION FOR AMBULANCES
A cheque for £900 collected
takings of i oderate size, is fac atig a somewhat different problem and one fiam, for example, closing threw out of Twelve fas terres, while tour small firms are to carry on production in factory.
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carried forward in the strongest couperative spint in many dustries, where the Government realise that benefit will be gaited. It has been decided to exclude the furniture making and the clothing Industries from the scheme because the
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GREEKS RESCUED BRITISH GIRLS
(From An Athens Correspondent)
TWO BRITISH sisters--15-years-old Elizabeth and 12-years-old Helen Grimes who were rescued from the Italians by the advancing Greek forces, are to-day the happiest children in Athens. their parents they have just arrived in the Greek capital after months' of sufferings since Italy de- -clared war.
a cigarette factory.
With
their
Shanghai recently to con- duct political activities, according to the Chinese newspaper "Cheng Yien Pao.
The newcomers supervised the recent Japanese parachute it'm tivities over the northern suburbs of Shanghai.
Well-informed
cise-
foreign circles agree the parachutists are 110t for service in China but where, possibly the South regions, adds the newspaper, Reuter.
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100, DIED DEFYING HITLER
Mrs. Ellen Matilda Croft. Rom- ford Essex, centenarian, died de-
They were the only British chil- | Chimara front I reported dren in Albania and lived in Santi case to the British Consul. Quaranta, where their father had Mr. Spiro Grimes, aged 54, and by origin from Malta, told me that The family were interned and he was persecuted, his wife be- the children banned from the came ill through worry, and hisfying Hitler to the end, local school. Ten days later they daughters were not allowed to were all moved inland to Del-speak to their former school vina, where, three weeks ago, I mates. found them destitute.
"My family lived in terror dur- ing the fighting around Delvino," he said.
"Lived In Terror" They had been unable to make They will remain in Athens un- contact with the British authorl- til passage is arranged, probably tles since the Greeks occupied the to Cyprus, where Mr. Grimes may town. On my return from the I restart business,
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Hearing gunfire, she said, "It's that old devil again, but our guns are too good for him."
She died two hours later, as the "All clear" sounded.
At the age of ninety-nine she was bombed out of her home. She expressed her defiance of Hitler forcibly thén, and refused to leave Romford.
“I can tell
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