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Naval Heroes To
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R.A.F. Casualty
List Issued
LONDON, Feb. 15 (Router),mmit is LONDON, Feb. 15 (Reuter) understood that a civic luncheon will communique from the Air Ministry
be given to the officers and men of reports that the latest Air Force
H.M.S. Exeter and ILMS, Ajax at three missing-believed killed in eusualties ore ning killed in action,
Mansion House next week
Faction, one died of wounds received Final arrangements have not yet in action, seven missing, 13 killed on been made but it is erected that active service and 17 died on setive Mr. Winston Churchill whe'be present. sorvico,
Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 16, 1940.
Brutality Disclosed In Official Statement
NAZIS TRY TO STAMP OUT POLISH PEOPLE
PARIS.
NAZI determination to exterminate the population of Poland, notably the in- tellectuals, is 'shown in all its horror in a semi-official statement issued by the Polish Press Bureau on Ger- man atrocities in Poland,
The Polish Government ésfim- ates that 18,000 leading men; and women in all classes of Rociety have been massacred by the Germans since the Nazi oc- cupation of the country and "the slaughter still continues." Immediately after entering Poland 1?1e Germans started mass tions among the Polish population. They undertook to destroy all the Polish leaders in Pomerania, Poznan and Silesia; not only political leaders but also all members of the clergy and notable figures in economic eir- tries.
Shot By Troops
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German troops, immediately they set foot in Poland, shot a certain | number of priests, lawyers, doctors and tradesmen. In Silesia the mem- bers of the Association of Silestan! Insurgents who in 1910-1921 fought | to liberate "Silesia frem German
domination were massacred.
REMOVING MINENKRIEG STING
DRIFTING MINES are a source of constant terror to neutral shipping. This Scandinavian photo shows one such mine being carefully handled by a patrol-Domci.
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Python Breaks Two Years' Fast
LONDON. The
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At Bydgoszcz the German Army killed several thousands of Polish broke its fist of two years and four months to-day by swallowing Inhabitants. Slaughtering o! this five chickens In quick succession. kind took place in all the towns of
Poznan, Pomerania and Silesin.
According to natural history experts, it thus 'missed by some
Then came a long series of mass two months its chance of beating the record. executions, the authors of which
were S.S. and Gestapo. These execu- Zoo tions continue over Western Poland and are of a particularly bestla} on- ture, ahning at exterminating all the population.
"Long Live Poland" Generally these executions take place, in public in the principal squares of towns and villages, es- pecially on market days.
As an example, Ave Poles were |shot in the market place of a small provincial town, Szamotuly, about October 20 last year.
At a certain hour members of the S.S. closed the streets which over- looked the market place. The five young Poles were then placed ngainst the wall, Before dying they cried, "Long live Poland."
After the men had been shot, by a iring squad, the officer in command of the SS. detachment again shot them in the head. Those who saw the scene wept and women fainted,
Amazing Voyage By Germans
BERLIN, Feb. 15 (Rtuler).– The official news agency states that five German seamen have arrived safely} in Germany after spending 74 days in a 29-foot Ile-boat off the West African crust.
They mode their way from Poty, where they sheltered on the outbreak of war, to Las Palmas.
Japanese Airman's "Suicide Dive"
CHUNGKING, Feb. 10 (Reuter),-- French sources here report that the Japanese bombing of the Halphong- Kunming Railway on Tuesday cous- ed no damage and that the bridge was not hit.
Chinese circles, commenting on the Japanese report that a Japanese bomber made a "suicide dive towords the bridge," point out that the inachine erashed at. Wenshan, or about 15 miles away from the bildge
COMMUNISTS CAOLED
PARIS, Feb, 18 (Reuter)—Nine. Communists were sentenced to terms from one to Ave years' imprisonment by a military court for currying on Communist propaganda.
They include the Mayor of Bigneux and three Municipal Councillors.
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