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THE CHINA MAIL MARCH 28, 1940

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BARBARISM UNLEASHED BY NAZIS IN WARSAW

TERRORISM DRIVES MANY INSANE

(FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)

On the Polish Frontier.

THROUGH THE STREETS of Warsaw, the ancient Polish capital, wander crowds stricken by a sad malady.

Warsaw's crowds to-day have nothing in common with the gay pre-war populace. It is hard now to find a single person who is not in mourning.

Many women have lost their husbands, fathers or brothers. Many children are orphaned. Many men, bereft of their families and crazed by sorrow, have lost their reason. One sees lunatics everywhere in this unhappy city.

Here is another tragic story. frequently happens, a detachment of the Gestapo were conducting an in- vestigation in the Lazienki Garden one day in December. They noticed a group of 40 students, and these. the police surrounded.

According to a rough estimate, 20 per cent. of the children of Warsaw are now insane as the result of the Ger- man bombardment, the loss of their parents or the measures of persecution carried out against the Poles and the Jews.

ROVE THE STREETS

In most cases, however, the maníacs are men possessed by a mad thirst for vengeance. There is no room in the hospitals for these unhappy people, and they rove the streets as vaga- bonds.

They are seeking every opportunity to avenge themselves, and dozens of German officers and men have been killed by them.

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DAD

GERMAN CASUALTIES

FROM FLU

Influenza is sweeping through the Siegfried Line, and claiming many casualties, according to a usually reliable source at Eu. pon,

tho Belgian-German frontier.

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Several Gorman watering- places' are full of sick soldiers, it Is added, one Westphalian 8pa alone having 2,000 mon under treatment. Many

aro III with pneumonia, rhoumatiam pleurisy.

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The severe cold, it is explain. ed, has made conditions extreme- ly hard for the Blogfried Line defenders. Their forts are damp and lack heating,

bers had been issued,

These notes, of which great num- were without

Only a cursory questioning prefaced a monstrous slaughter. The students began to defend themselves by throw-notice declared valueless and people ing stones. This gave the Gestapo an possessed of small savings found them- excellent pretext for shooting all 40 selves penniless. of them on the spot.

SHOTS FROM WINDOWS From time to time shots are fired from windows on to German troops în the street. Woe to the inhabitants of the house whence such a shot is fired. The Gestapo immediately throws a cordon round the building and puts to death all the adult males found with

The real attacks on the Germans are, however, organised by countless terrorist groups, men burning with indignation at the ravishing of their country. The German authorities | in. are waging a fierce campaign against these querillas, avecinu elundian

Since, in the majority of cases, the German officers and men are killed by students and young intellectuals, it is against these that the campaign is directed.

The stamping out of the aristocrates and intellectuals in Poland is assum- ing greater and greater proportions.

WAVE OF ARRESTS.

The wave of arrests is at present spreading among professors. teachers, writers and artists. Very often Polish intellectuals are arrested without any

cause.

The Jews, as is well known, are sub- jected to special treatment. Every Jew over 13 years of age obliged to wear a special arm-band showing the shield of David--the emblem of the Jewish

rate.

Without work, and without money the people of Warsaw are in a state of wretchedness difficult to conceive.

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WALLS WILL CRUMBLE

A cold wave of a severity which it has not known for nearly a century has this winter swept over the half- ruined city, which is suffering from shortage of coal. But soon the thaw

the Arctic cold. will come, and that will be worse than

bardment have stood against rain and The buildings damaged by the bom- cold. But when the spring sunshire begins to melt the ice, which still holds houses, they will crumble. together the walls of many ruined

HIGHLAND REGIMENTS IN THE LINE

PARIS, TO-DAY.

THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE HAS TAKEN OVER A NEW, SECTION OF THE LINE FROM THE FRENCH. TROOPS. WHO REACHED FRANCE ONLY A FEW WEEKS AGO, INCLUDING THREE HIGH- LAND REGIMENTS, ARE OCCUPY- ING THE NEW SECTOR.

During the last two days, there has been great activity by the German air force, enemy machines making several flights over eastern and nor- thern France.

The Germans made daylight fights on Tuesday behind the Maginot Line, presumably in an attempt to discover French troop movements. The total number of 'planes taking part is de- scribed as "of certain importance"- Reuter.

KIPLING'S HOME FOR THE NATION

The home for many years of Rudyard Kipling, Batemans, at Bur- wash, East Sussex, has been left to the National Trust by Mrs. Kipling with an endowment of £5,000.

house with mullioned windows and brick chimneys, Jacobean The porch bears the date 1634.

in, style.

Batemans is a moderate-sized stone

Mrs. Kipling expressed the wish that her husband's study should be left in its present state and that cer- tain of the living rooms should be open to the public at a small charge, on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.

The Trust is now anxious to find as

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And Jew appearing in the street without this brassard does so at the

Thus the long tale of disasters bids risk of three months' imprisonment.

fair to continue. Once again the people Thanks to the arm-bands, the Gesta-will be searching for corpses under the po can easily recognise these unfor- debris. Even to-day, despite the em- tunate people and round them up for ployment of scores of labour corps, forced labour in clearing the city of composed of Jews, who are engaged soon as possible a suitable tenant who tims of the war are continually being in clearing away the bodies, fresh vic-will take the house on these terms... found. Warsaw cemeteries are already full.

debris.

A scheme for creating a Ghetto in Warsaw was dropped. To secure the abandonment of this project the Jewish Sometimes the German authorities community in Warsaw had to pay a sum of 2,000.000 zlotys, or about £45,- accuse them of having shown sym- pathy with illegal organisations. Some-000, to the German authorities. times they are merely charged with having refused to collaborate with the Germans.

`The Berlin Government thus aims at completely annihilating this section of the Polish population so as to deprive the people of intellectual leadership. Barbarian methods are employed to

this end.

the

The Germans suggested that community should pay a further sum to liberate the Jews from the necessity of wearing the arm-band of David. The Jewish community was, however, unable to find this additional money.

CHEAP LABOUR

square yards is now made to accom- The normal grave-space of two modate five coffins piled one upon the

other.

And every day more victims of famine, typhus and collapsing houses. are borne to the cemetery.

NO HOLIDAY

London, To-day.

DOCTOR'S BAG THEFT

Building, has reported the theft of a Dr. J. S. H. Scott, of Alexandra

brown leather bag containing in- struments and medicine, from his car No. 3484, which was parked in the Chater Road car park.

REDUCING MADE HER FEEL FITTER

Lost 23 lbs. of Fat- Gained Health and Vigour

They had decided to put by some thing for future contingencies; for the Germans have things still more terri- The German authorities have, forble in store, for the Jews. instance, begun to destroy Warsaw's The proposed introduction of labour libraries and archives. Priceless conscription and the Jewish reserve at

To avoid delay to neutral shipping volumes taken from the public

Lublin will, in fact, cost

the British Warsaw

contraband committee Albraty "of Warsaw and from the Jewry further considerable sums.

continued daily meetings during the University libraries are used as fuel

Easter holidays and held its two heating-stoven.

hundredth sitting of March 22.

To that date the committee had considered the cargoes of 3,052 ships

You sometimes hear a stout woman of which 314 were British and 2,738 say: "I should like to reduce, but I'm foreign.

sure it must be very weakening. You One Item--27,000 weasands plac- | need have no fear of that if you reduce With indescribable cruelty, they are ed in prize has been the subject of the Kruschen way. If you have any constantly seeking new ways of mak-newspaper correspondence and it is such doubts, read the following letter, ing it impossible for the people of now explained that these are the which provides a complete answer: Warsaw to continue their existence.windpipes of bullocks and are used started taking Kruschen Selts

For the first few months after the for making sausage casings. British entry of the German troops it was still Wireless. possible, by paying very high prices, to buy food from the peasants: But

At the same time, the achives of historical research societies and of the University faculties of history and philology are being destroyed.

PRICELESS HERITAGE

The Germans are wiping out a priceless heritage a witness to all that the Poles have contributed to science, literature and civilisation.

The Germans regard Warsaw-and, indeed, the whole of Poland-as no thing more than a great reservair of cheap labour.

The methods of the Middle Ages are being used to crush the guerillas who will not leave the Germans in peace.in January a series of new decrees

Here is an example. Foles killed à German officer, and two, soldiers in a cafe of the suburb of Warsaw known by the name of Wawer. The reprisals were frightful

--That very night, in the suburb

Warsaw, the Gestapo" killed 120 "Poles, including women and children. wretched apple were drag- ged from their, ada Sharidetakan? to the outskirts of the ölty, where they

created famine in the capital.

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were forbidden to supply with food. They were for thelm

STOCK EXCHANGE

QUIET

quiet

over two years ago, to reduce my weight. I then weighed 9 stone 9 lbs., and had a bust measurement of 36 Ins. and a waist measurement of 27 Ins. Seven months after starting the treat- ment, my weight was down, to 8 stone, my bust measured 32 ins and my waist 25 ins. I did no special exercises: of am still taking a small

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any kind, London, To-day The Stock Exchange was yesterday, most groups tand apart from Kamirs which

In ported by local and Cape

home ralls which continued ous day's advan The new War discount.

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