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Atrocities—Axis Style3y DeWITT MacKENZIE(Wide World War Analyst)The heavy andhouse of common* § ^struction of Japanese invasion days ago by Foreign Secratir* \ . ' ‘ .lied air power, the successful in-_______ Mac Arthurmand after an epic break through a weil-nigh air-tight blockade, the further gains reported today in the fierce Russian offensive against the Hitlerian forces—all these are milestones marking the downwardtrail of the Axis.And so, because the enemy is ata critical passage where desperate means are likely to be employed, it is a matter of grave concern to see the claims of Axis atrocitiespiling up. The news today contains two more cases—the atrocities charged against the Germans in Poland by the Polish govern-ment-in-exile, and the Russian military report that the Nazis have slain 30,000 civilians in the strategic southwestern city of Kharkov since the occupation on Oct. 24.* # * *The conclusion must be that, if these barbarities happened asguilty of wholesale atrodtiaaoccupied Hongkong.Eden said that 50 Britishand men had been bound ha»Hand foot and then bayoneted todeath. Women were raped andmurdered. These things, he ni were confirmed by eye-wtoJHj“TTieir testimony,'• dedaiMEden, “established the fact fla*the Japanese army at K perpetrated against theirmilitary prisoners and civil pop®.distinctionnetor color me same Kind of hnbarities which aroused the horrorof the civilized world at the da* of the Nanking massacre* tf1937”The Japanese government bndenied all these charges.o * • *There is another class of atrocity which is being conducted soly that the whole world can suit plainly. That is the starvation, ,. . . _ .entire populations through thecharged, the Axis powers are de- | s^rjpping of their countrtH c/ liberately resorting to savagery in food To me this is much «an effort to win by these means a ^errjj3]e than the infliction of quickw'ar which they have been unable death by the bayonet which, — o win by arms and which veryiefinitely is slipping away fromparedthe slow torturetl “ hunger, is a humane acthem. This naturally gives rise to j starvation is widcipmdEurope becausecoun-comcs to defeat, the greater tries have been robbed of theremployment of ter- j00lt;j supplies, but themost often cited is that of pooreek officials in Cairo nday estimated that stana-xposure and executions had200,000Greeceorism.The Polish charges form part of i note addressed to the Allied and seutral governments by the Polish oreign office, and set forth a storyf barbaric brutality. The go\- ijves jn Greece in less than a yearrnment alleges, and produces (^rm3n-italian occupation. In___________ jjnce and affidavits in support, that 200,000 people have been murdered in cold blood; that 1,000,000 more have been driven from their homes;that there have been many instances of collective rape; that countless Polish girls have been sent to brothels in Germany.♦ * 0 *This comes on the heels of the sensational charge made in theFebruary deaths in the city Athens alone reportedly1,500 daily. i _* * * *It is shocking to think of majorpowers turning to such brutalityin this day of civilization. Still,if that’s the color of the bout ift best that we know it now, for it gives fair warning of what v» might expect if the Axi*conauer us—which it won’tV7'■Xt.1- .I1
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La Crosse Tribune and Leader Press
La Crosse, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Mar 19, 1942
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