Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1941 — Page 13

EPORT 133, 000] HOSTAGES SLAIN

British oe Suffer Most Under Nazi System. LONDON, Nov. 21 (U. P)—Axis ‘guns were reported in an official

British statement today to have _ taken the lives of at least 133,100

hostages and other victims as a re-| on thef

sult of Axis “retaliation” . _ peoples of occupied Europe.

The statement, [reporting details

“of the German 100-to-ohe system of - retaliation, pointed out that information was necessarily incomplete but listed the following estimates: 71d : " POLAND--82,000 executed; 30,000 dead in prison. | . JUGOSLAVIA-—5000 executed in + three inonths., (Refugeee Jugoslav officials in London last week put the figure of killed at 8100.) CZECHOSLOVAKIA — 352 executed; 1070 sentenced to prison. FRANCE—250 executed. GREECE—15,000 believed killed in retaliation bombing of six villages. HOLLAND—500 Jews reported to have died in concentration camp.

| Jugoslavs Harassed .

‘Occupied - Jugoslavia, the state‘ment said, has been the center of ruthless reprisal slayings by the . Germans since the Chetniks (guerrillas) began open hostilities against ‘ the Nazis. “About 2000 Serbian ‘men, women “and children were said to have been killed, as many as 50 for the wound:ing of ® .single German soldier. : Whole villages have been burned and every..160th man. shot in many “brutal raids,” it said. :

Under the German-enforced Ssystem of “co llective responsibility,” the report said, Poland had |suffered continuous persecution,

Punish=Arms Strikers

It cited’ one. instance where 300 hostages ‘were killed when Polish workers in a munitions factory .at Skarzyko refused to produce arms} for the Germans. ' Other victims were said to have included 30 wellknown Polish: actors and artists: No hostage murders were reported «from Belgium and Luxembourg, but heavy fines were said to have been imposed on whole communities for undetected acts of sabotage. Hostages have been taken for many months as a method of in‘timidation in Holland, Norway and Greece, the statement charged. /In Greece, Bulgarians were said to have seized innocent victims from arly évery town.

FUNERALS HAMPER _ MOBILIZATION PLAN

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (U. P.). -Truck owners are “willing. and nxious” to: make ‘their vehicles ailable to the Army in event of national emergency, but funerals, company restrictions and e like may interfere. | This was diselosed in answers reived to questionnaires by the ublic Roads Atiministration in a ey, requested by the War Deent, of . trucks and busses thich’ could be leased by the Govrnment in case the necessity arose. One owner pointed out. that his uck was ‘used for funerals and added: “., . the vernment can use it at any time if it doesn’t . interefere with funerals. Funerals constitute a local emergency.”

- ‘Jugoslavs |

{Volunteers of America to

| “Speaks Monday -

Col. Charles Brandon Booth

Hear Col. Charles Booth At Columbia Club.

The local Volunteers of Ainerion will Hear Col. Charles Brandon Booth, the organization’s national |

secretary at their annual: meeting at 6:30 p. m. Monday in the Columbia, Club. Col. Earl FPF. Hites, Indianapolis, commander of the central area and executive director of the local posts, has announced that arrangements are in charge -of Ralph Polk Sr. local advisory board chairman. Reports of the activities of the organization, and the operation of the. - Theodora Home, 3211 Hlinois St., which are charter members of the Indianapolis Community Fund and the Indianapoils Council

at the meeting, and new officers will be elected. _

British Government today expressed | “regret ‘for the unirtentional discourtesy” .to Maxim Litvinov, new

States, when the Russian diplomat and his wife were refused passage

to Cairo 'due to an airways muddle. Richard Law in. behalf of the Cabinet said in the House of Commons that a full investigation was being made of the ¢ircumstances. “I am glad to have this opportunity of saying how much his Majesty’s Government regret the unintentional “discourtesy to: our}: Russian ally and Mrs. Litvifiov involved in this most unfortunate occurrence,” ‘Mr. Law said. Mr. Law received his information

Bullard, British Minister to Iran.

completed for the Litvinovs to fly from Tehran to Cairo in a Russian’ plane.

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