The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31
MURDER S DAILY
IN WHITE TERROR .
REIGN IN SERBIA
Communists Thrown
From Jail Windows

BELGRADE, Aug. 30.-Murders
of Communists and other militant
workers by the white terror have
been reported daily throughout
Yugoslavia in the last month. The
murders of class pisoners, of mys-
ferrous nature, have now become the
order of the day, prisoners being
thrown from windows and their
deaths reported as suicides. This
is the new technique of the fascist
terror under Z&ovich and King
Alexander.
In Zagreb an arrested Communist
propaganda fell out of the window
of the prison while being questioned
by the examining magistrate and
shortly afterwards died of the in
juries received.
The laconic announcement that
the prisoner had jumped out of the
window during interrogation means
that the police have murdered the
prisoner in order to hide the marks
of the hideous tortures used in
Yugoslav prisons to extort confess
sions from political prisoners. The
body of a man thrown out of a
third-story window will be suffi-
GENTLY mangled so as not to show
the traces of the treatment pre-
viously suffered.
This proceeding is quite usual in
Yugoslavia and in other Balkan
white terror countries.
Further mass arrests are report
ed in Bosnia. In Sarajevo, the CAPT
tai of the province, the number of
persons arrested is 300, and in Mos
tar, $50. Among those arrested are
Heiderheimer, Nikola Juric, Nikola
Tortkovic, Ivan Tortkovich, Altarac,
Kata Gorusovis with her daughter
Fora, Waldo Jokanovic, a solicitor
from Sarayevo; Koyko Vukovic,
Gujo and Alfred Bergman from
Mostar; Mitar Trifumovic from
Tuzla, all of whom have been in
humanity tortured in prison. All
examinations" are conducted dur
ing the night.
Waldo Jokanovic's father, a clergy
man, was sentenced to twenty days
imprisonment by police judge for
having told some friends that his
son had been tortured in prison.
According to report of the news
paper "Slovence" of Laibach TWEEN
ty miners of the TRIAL mining dis
riot were arrested in the suspicion
that they had been hiding explosives
taken from the pits.
: Three Communists were killed by
the police in Samobar near Zagreb.
The circumstances of this affair are
now known.
At two o'clock in the morning the
police surrounded the house in which
Janko Misic, Milo Oreshki and his
wife and brother lived. Two police
men and the owner of the house
knocked at the door of their room
and ordered them to open the door.
When this order was not obeyed the
police began to fire from outside
through the door. The fire was re-
turned, and the shooting lasted some
time, although the besieged COM
rades were already seriously in
jured. According to the report of
the "Slovenec" (the organ edited by
the Minister of Transports Korosec)
the besieged then asked the police
to cease fire and let the wife of
MILO Oreshki leave the house. This
was granted but when Mrs. Oreshki
came outside she was Immediately
seized by two policemen who pushed
the woman before them as shield
and thus prevented the besieged
from shooting as they were afraid to
hit Mrs. Oreshki. This rendered
possible the breaking down the door.
On entering the room the police
officers Immediately killed the three
wounded men.