1940-01-24 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 24, 1940

Barbarous Persecution By The Nazis In Poland

TERRIBLE FACTS REVEALED BY CATHOLIC PRIEST

Rome, To-day. MONDAY'S BROADCAST from the Vatican de- nouncing German persecution of Poles in Ger- man-occupied Poland was followed yesterday by the publication of a report giving a full account of the persecution.

DUKE OF WINDSOR AT WAR OFFICE

London, To-day. Major-General the Duke of Windsor vialted. the War Office yesterday afternoon in his capa- city as liaison officer with the French Army,

He had an interview with Gen- eral Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of Imperial. General Staff—Reu- [ter.

The report was submitted to the Primate of Poland

by a Roman Catholic priest who escaped after LABOUR being imprisoned. He declared that the order of the day in German-occupied Poland was bar-

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barous persecution and the destruction of every- TO FINLAND

thing Polish and Catholic.

NEW FIGURE FOR U.S. DEBT LEVEL

of

The priest gives--descriptions Incidents which are almost unprint- able.

One of the less revolting pas

in

sages concerns the conditions under which R. C. priests had to live

prison; they had to carry out the most disgusting tasks.

In Warsaw prison are hundreds of priests. All churches in Poanan are closed and, the most beauti- ful'church of all has been turned into a concert hall.

The priest says that, the

looting

Washington, To-day. Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of Treasury, in-and pillaging and the export to Ger- formed the House of Re-many of all food, and clothing have

left the Polish population destitute und]

in presentatives appropriations he foresees widespread starvation committee yesterday that he the coming Spring. contended that the limit of the Federal Debt should be raised, to $50,000,000,000.

The committee is discussing the Treasury Department 1941. Supply

Bill.

$45,000,- The present limit of

Mr. 000,000, . said

Morgenthau, should be raised,, and he would, take another look at the situation when it reached $49,000,000,000 but there would be no particular danger Involved if Congress raised the debt limit to $50,000,000,000.

TERRIBLE CHARGES

He describes how Polish families are herded into railway trucks in the, freezing weather, and are then taken far out into the country and told to fend for themselves. The inhabitants in Posnan seldom undress and keep, a small bag of personal belongings near them all the time "just in case.”

The priest also makes the charge that the Germans are trying to de- stroy the Polish, race by sterilising young boys and girls.

Among the many accounts in one Mr. Morgenthau also maintained that case in which a priest was forced to the Budget should be balanced by re-watch 20 mass executions in a public chiced expenditures and increased square at one, time. When, he could bear it no longer and cursed the Nazis, he was beaten with rifle butts and then shot.-Reuter.

taxes. Reuter.

NAVY FUEL PLANS WORK WELL

London, To-day. The Director of Supplies at the Admiralty, Mr. W. J. Dick, declared yesterday that the

STOPPING UP AVENUES OF ESCAPE

Budapest, To-day. The German. Government is

now

trying to stop all Fales from escaping

from the Nazi terror.

It is reported here that Berlin has asked Slovakia to close its frontiers

Stockholm, Teo-day.

A British Labour delegation headed by Sir Walter Citrine, which is en route to Finland, is now here consulting with Swedish Labour leaders.

The delegation is going to Finland at the invitation of Finnish Trade Un- ions to report on the situation and Fin- land's needs to the British Labour movement.

Bir Walter Citrine, In an, Inter- view yesterday, said he hoped one. result of the visit would be to show the British Government. 鋼 more effective. way of helping Finland if necessary.

He added that they would visit the fighting fronts.--Reuter.

AMERICAN

SOVIET

PURGES" IN POLAND

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CERNAUTI, RUMANIA,

TO-DAY. CONSIDERABLE. IMPORTANCE IS ATTACHED, HERE TO THE IM- PENDING ARRIVAL IN LWOW or THE FAMOUS GERMAN CIVIL EN- GINEER, HERR TODT, DESIGNER OF THE SIEGFRIED LINE' AND. BUILDER OF MOST OF THE GKB- MAN HIGHSPEED ROADS,

Herr. Todt's presence is connected with the presence. In Eastern Galicia of important contingents of Gerinan troops and technicians, Indicating the Reich's decision, to extend to the Soviet an active hand in the indus- trial development of those areas.

HUGE, RURGES Meanwhile, it, is reliably reported. that the Soviet is proceeding

with huge purges throughout their occu- pied Polish territory, arresting 20 to 100 people daily.

Two thousand former Polish officers were arrested within a single week,

The food situation in Eastern Galicie, le most, precarious, Havad

NEW

ZEALAND'S CENTENARY

London, To-day. Discussing, New Zealand's

"The centenary,

Times" draws a comparison between British Imperialism and the Nazi doctrine of "lebens-

WAR SUPPLY raum CONTROL

WASHINGTON, TO-DAY.

IT IS ANNOUNCED THAT PRESI- DENT ROOSEVELT HAS FORMED A SPECIAL GOVERNMENT COMMIT TEE TO PREVENT CONFLICTS ARISING OVER THE PURCHASES

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OF AMERICAN MILITARY. “AND NAVAL SUPPLIES BY FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS.

The committee is charged with the duty of protecting the interests of the United, States by preventing conflict with the requirements of that country and its citizens 'in' American markets.

Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of liaison capacity between the Presi Treasury, has been appointed to act in

dent and the committee-Reuter..

Poland so that no Poles can escape.- Reuter.

with Hungary and Soviet-occupied F FASCIST

position in regard to the RAWALPINDI

Navy's oil fuel was entirely satisfactory.

No Admiralty tanker had been lost and comparatively few chartered

tankers.

PRISONERS

London, To-day.

The Admiralty has issued the names Since the last war a new system of supply to naval vessels, at sea enabled of 2 offers and 25 ratings of H.M.S. Hawalpindi, who are prisoners of war ship to be maintained for six

in Garr eight months without replanishing

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per, P. & The pre-war arrangements

be recal worked extremely we

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ONSLAUGHT ON JEWS

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Rome Today

The Jews are the authors of all the misdeeds from which the human race is suffering, declared Signor Farinacei, a member of the Grand Fasdet Coun- cil, yesterday.

In New Zealand,, says the paper, the arrival of, British-authority-was- the starting, paint, of, liberty. The treaty was based on, co-operation be- tween the white settlers and the abori-. gines and although there have been wars, the, Magnis today, have com- plete equality of social and political rights, they sit in the Legislature and are represented in the Cabinet.

Already, In, 1912, they were ready for self-government and a few years later they had a full. Parliamentary system, To-day, the people of New Zeeland stand on their own, feet with nothing in their institutions or social life, to show how quickly they na- turalised a constitutional system which took the Mother Country, a. thousand years to develop.

New

"The Zealand, concludes Times," may not regret that the cen- tenary has drawn, the eyes of the | world or her at a time when she is playing a, great part in the affairs of the, world-Reuter

NOBEL PRIZE FOR MR. LANSBURY?

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