Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-30
ny MERRILL MUELLER

LONDON. Oct. 3o.-Nearl
100000 YugoSlav patriots hav
been executed. murdered or ma;
sacred.
Another 100000 have bee
thrown into concentration camps
But despite these extreme re
pressiye eAsures. rebellion
Serbian and Crost guerillas hav
been able 10 inflict al least 500
casualties on their German
Italian and Ustachi overlords. tn
free Yugoslsvisn government as
serted today in an exhaustive res
ume of the bloody purges and opeI
warfare raging In that country.
MORE EXECUTIONS
THE Swiss radio In a broad
cast heard by MIC today quoted
the Belgrade newspaper Novo
vreme as reporting 200 Com
munist insurgents" have been
annihilated by Axis occupa tional
troops after two days of fighting
at the unidentified village of
Serbia.
ACCORDING TO the broadcast,
Novo Vreme also reported ex-
ecution OF 50 Communists. in
another village and 81 more
\ executions In other sections of
the country.
"A Belgrade dispatch via
Berne told Of Is executions in
the north Bosnian town of Trav-
mix on charges Of sabotage. espi-
onaee and communism. Eleven
others who had been condemned
to death by a Nazi court martial
had their sentences committed
10 five years Imprisonment, it
was stated.
Tin italy. a former Yugoslav-
ian citizen named Knevevic
Milos was executed on charges
Of being responsible for the sink
ing Of an Italian steamer at an
unnamed port last February
The Archbishop of Canterbury
quoting figures from the Serbian
Orthodox Church. says that more
than 80, 900 Serbs alone have beer
massacred In Yugoslavia.
FIGURE UNCoNFIRMED
This appalling figure the FREE
government does not confirm
However, an official spokesman
said that conditions in so-callet
Independent Croatia under Italian
tutored Ante Pavelitch. the Us
tachi chieftain. parallel those II
German areas under Gen. Con
stantin Neditch.
The result. he said, is tina
guerilla bands operating in tn
mountains and forests are mad
I'D Of both Croat and Serbian
patriots. fighting together to sabo
tage the invaders with a new ma
ticnai unity.
--latest reports indicate that
Rnyslitch has been forced TO
purge o good number Of his dis
satislleA Ustachi leaders," he
said.
sPsvslifch himself now Ii In
such fear Of his life that he has
doubled his bodyguard. He has
sent his wife back to Italy.
ITALIANS DIsPLEAsED
sTtaiy II greatly dispieased
over Ms failure TO organize the
new Croatisn state sufficiently
% hermit the Duke OF Spolete
Do sscead his new throne. 1t Il
no fable that the Germans or
fsur occasions have asked Mat
shsk (Dr. Vladimir Matchek
Croat agrarian leader to recon
sIAeg Ms AYst refusal to organic
ths Great government with theil
The axis Is clearly divided
the question of Croat administr
tion, Ne said, more so TN. u
Italians, after withdrawing fro
the interior because of repeat'
uprisines, have taken over sever
free corridors along the coast.
~The Italians have lost q
Mast 1000 men In fighting In
Msateasgro lately" the spokes
man continued. "snd seven o
the Italiaa sppointees TO tn
payiiameat have been assassi
mated"
A MILLION MIGRATE
sNeariy 100000 peasants liv
IaR An Bosnia, Herzegovina an'
Crotia recently migrated 81
masse 20 Serbia. This repre-
seated an Axis effort TO ciea
up rebellion In those areas. j
failed
sTfforts 90 raise . Croa
lesfsa 20 aid Hitler agains
Russia led 70 open muffin
arssag Croatian troops at Var
aEAia. and 90 Of them wer
dot
~GuerYilis raiders are concer
trating their activities agsini
railway iines and destruction
Axis stores, and are not ovel
hooking tire assassination Of Az
axests and sentries, al Of whic
comprise signs Of Increasing n
b>Yiion throughout the countr.
sBussia's fierce resistance
tire Nsxi invasion n inspirtn
her slsy brothers."
PAPER SLEEPING BAGS
NEW YORK, Oct. So.-dNsD
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