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 Air Minis try No.6094


AIR MINISTRY AND MINISTRY OF HOVm S:CCUR.ITY COivThITn'1"IQUE


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 Tho Kine ho.s been sraciously plcc.soa to o.pprovc the
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 No. 6207913 Bonbn.rdior Rosslin Roser Linoso.y Youn[;,'
 Royo.l Rcginc-r1.t of .hrtill0ry.

 Pl~cc of birth:-
 -li.Olh"ess ·-- of Bourncnouth
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 Oo.kd,Jne, P.uc1~7ick , Suss ex.

 ]?ollrn:rlng o.n o.ir rn.id on Belfn.st on the 16th April 1 941, Bonbn.rdicr
 YounG shuvrea. outstandinJ l)rc.very in rescue -rrork. In spi.tc of the fo.ct that ho
 -rras suffcrin.0 from 8. septic hand o.ncJ. ho.d his arn in a sling , he vroYked under the
 ruins of o. burnins; house for six o.nu. a hn.lf hours and no.s no.inly responsible for
 tho rescue of clcv0n people , four of i.7hom were ,'J.live . It vras vihen getting tho
 lo.st person out, c. girl of sixteen , that .. B~nbar_dicr Young shovmc1 the utmost
 ir:.diffcrence to dn.ngcr,, 'rhc building YT['.S by then in o. very do.n.c;erous state as
 the fire DD.Cl got beyond central . J,.c.ded to this D. bor.1..b exploded 2.bput one hundred
 ortd fifty yo.rds array fron the l)uildint_; o.nd brou.2:ht doi:a1 raore debris• BonbD.rdicr
 Ycuns cLJarcd o.-r;ay debris n.nd, ho.vine:; jacked up a lJent:1, vrhich vras supporting
 :i:2.ller_ r.:n.sonry n.nd debris:- rsot his hen.a o.nc1 shoulders under it !.U1..d then secured
 cl rope n:cound the girl I s waist. SGvcrD.l r.1cn then pulled on the rope ;:.n atl.
 cL1dcavour to dro..3 the c;irl out; but -r.rhen half- rray the rope ca.ri10 adrift. Although
 tnc supportin:3 beaE1 ho.d collo.pscd a:~ one end , Bombardier Youn0 vii thout n. r,10ncnt ' s
 hesitD.tion, o.gain crarrled into the nolc o.nd agn.in tied the rope round the girl • .
 r.venilually she i:m.s got out o.livc . f;hc 1,7n.s the last person to be extrictltcd .
 About tv-TG r:n.nutes lD.ter the buildint_i; collo.psed. During the whole opero.tion
 Borabo.rdicr Young ho.d rrorked incess2n.tly vri th a groo.t disrec;n.rd for dangc?'.'•

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 No. 3050802 Scrgt;nnt J. :ihn Clifford Brown,
 S:he Royal ~~cots (The Royal RcJinent,).

 PlD.cc cf birth:- Fo.lkirk .

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 of kin : - 4, St,, DD.vid s, Newtone;range, Iviidlothian .

 l\..t o. Scottish Royo..l Air Force Sto..tion in Au2ust -1941 , there wn.s on D.ccidcnt to
 ru1 etircr,'.}ft in v✓-hich o. lrn~ge nuober of persons lost their lives-. The aircro.ft con.,.
 t~tinecl o.bout 2, 700 gallons of pr;tr©l , ~.-rhich burst into flmnes D.S the mo..chine hit
 the zround,. Sergennt BrolTr.l 1.rn.s on the spot iumcdiD.tcly and ·worked hD.rd ru11ong
 the flo.Hcs assisting to e:;~tricc;.to ·bodies fron the v7reckagc., v7hich was burinc
 furiousl:r. He helped to extricate six ooclies fron:. the flames before the intense hec.t
 ~..li.'.LlC hiu d0sist .. Sorgoant Bro-rn.1 showed D. cor;rplctG disrec;ard of dD.11.ger ,,nd i.-ras an
 inspirin:..:) eX3L1plc to the rescue r:nrty ,.. He vras snvcrely burnt -vrhile cnGD.3ec1 on
 this rescue Yrork .

 No. 7630513 Pri vatc H8.rry Gulvin ,
 Royal J\rmy Ordnn.nce Corps •.

 Pl8.cc of 1)irth:... Hart lip , Kent~
 1'.. ddre~:-;--frat o±:_ kin : - 79, }!Lilton Stroot , Mn.ids tone , K0nt .

 I'rivatc Gulv:..:n. d:ls~_J.ayod gal1"~nt conuuct o.t Tobruk on the 10th May , 19~-1,
 1:ihen a 3hed in vrhich e:x.perinento.l ,.-c,rk -rri th ~mmni tion uas in progress caught

 fire fillo. co.used D. ninor explos~ 0:-0, vrhich rendered e. 1.7arro.nt Officer unconscious .
 'rho fire rau:ea fiercely o.ncJ. it D.p:pe;.,_roc1 inevi to..ble: thn.t the remainder of tho
 ar.1nuni tion and shed would blovr ·u.p c.t 01-iy moment . Private Gulvin·, at greo.t
 :pcr[,onn.l ri~k, cnt...::rccl th,J shod 811(~ c1rai3ged the unconscious. Warrant Officer to
 3afc-ty. They. nerG only thirty yards ·awo.y fror:1 the scene ·,rhen the shed ble-i;:r up
 D.nd -rras complC:;tely deoolishecl.




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 ]~.:'.FIRE CONSULTATION ·

 'The toll~;vip.g -' staterae:nt by {~he RT. HON SIR-EARLE.PAGE, Australia's ·
 S.p ecial invoy_to Great B.:i:."itain-, :l$. 'is.sued by Australi:1. House., . through :
 the IJ ominions Off,.ico PrEiss Section:":" . . ·__ · . ._. . ·
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 T:he/ necess,:i. ty is• generally , ackno:;11.ed;;e_t} -for -.ruller -con~sul tation ;in reg¥d · to -
the pro.l:;lems·,· concerne9-~ vvi. th the cpndu,c,i:i:.: _o f .- the wor · on ._the scale of this .present
ono, ospeciBJ.lyi early-- e:nougli,_ to help ,moµld :polic:r a.-rid. strategy:.·
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 . B.e fore ther~-- c311: b_e off cc tive cons1:-1ltation and _co-ord.ini t~on _bet·.-recn the Allies,
there 1~u~-t:, as.· ~:: prelip.:µ1ary, · be . effective arrang.9~lBnts ·vri thin. -· the FJnpire . ·· One · of
the pµ3;poses: for which I ca.me _to Lpndon· ?as ·- ~<? : consider tp.e existing arr·angements
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for Australia. consultn.tion, o.nd to determine whether they are offecti?e to ensure
that problems arc exn.rninod a.nd decided against a backgrou:::-ia. of general E11pi~c
interests Md upon a 'bal"nnced E;mpire vtevtp oj,pt. ·< " _•.:: .__ .·.. ·
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 Hy viewfJ on these- su~jocts c1:ro:, pf . cours_e , .matt or& betv-wen· my:. Gover:1.r~ent antl
my•$€lf. · A feyr '?,orri;men.t_&.-:_~99.1p. : to me to. be necessary at this: ,.time, hoc,vevor ,- in order
that 'a subject vrhich ·is attracti.ng such aide attention shou:1a_ 1Je ke1·rb in ..p1;.0tier
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perspective. I confine myself to the problem of Empire consaltation, but . vri th a
full: ;;reali,sat-ion of cµ.l the :4,:-i.plication_s yvi thin tho vr.ider ,- ~phere of Allied
con~:qltation . . -,,- . _ . -. · ... -. ·
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 am ~-o~cernod· ~a'.t~aiiy,. Yv"ftp.,. i~ustraliari ipte1~~sts, but Qelievo that ·wh~t· I
applies in relation ·to one bomin~on has equal f 'oroe in its qpplication t9 tho· :others.

 Dtlripg .. tl:ie ~a s t tvro months I .ho.ve had an! op-pol"'tunity .of. excrnini.ng the British
War C.9-lfi11.etts moth~-:ids,: of seeing . i:µ aotual -.p:raotice defects of the present. . sys:ton
of ;EL-ip:µ,e·-- consultation, jus,t a.s ·in, ;.a laboratory cxpe:rir.o.ent, a.nd of, tE?sting methods
of inrproven{ent. ·, ... : · · ··
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 This living .84perirnont . hE~S })eeri carried on from day tQ . ~ay in time of' great ' a
vrorld cris:Ls i:rho:ri"'mDny _elorn.ewis arc th;rqvp::i to_ th~ s11rfac_o that -vrould ordinD.rily be
concealed. The ine'scapable conclusion to which I have come is that the machinery
necessary to secure tho essential princi1;les that shoulct govern consult a tions
on cornr.:.1on policy must bG of two. dimensions at least . Its cor.:....c;tructicn must be
both horizontal on th<:: :rolitical plane and vertical on ths . admin:.stratiye plane.
It IEUSt have· . a family resemblance to the machineI'iJ thr;.t is successfully functioning
:in co-ordinating British depn.rtmental ef'fcrt under the :Eri tish War C::1.b:.net,,
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 This system enables depart.. -ncnts ·t·o·.-k::11.ow·, -Y rhile --riolicy •--i s-- -still- -'- f'J.\tld, ·:.r: hat oi:her
departments think, while at the nnJr.e time it places Ln the hands of rr.ernbers of the
Yvar ,Cabinet full inforrn2.tion. as to all rQleva..nt fD.cts,. This in.ter-d.epartmcntal
knowledge lessens the nur:iber of points of conflict in ul tima:te lJOlicy., and ',rhere
conflict still persists gi vcs D. ba~is for full aiscussion in the Vo.r Cabinet on
issues that cru1not be resolved by the d-,ps.rtm~nts.


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 Our slow progress in Empire co-ordination has been due to the fact that we
 have confined our eff or.ts .. tp mea 9µr~s . in the horizontal pla..11.e ·- there has been
 too much emphasi::.1 lcid::d····&n:-:::. the. ·:poi~t'.1:-ea·l maJ<e-up . Any political make-up - Ylar
 Cabinets, Irrr_perial Conferences ar.d so on .... because cf our imrnense distances
 · :.~ and ... urg_ent domel,it'.ic· problems; ·. is · neoessa.ri·l y spasm.a.die a.n.d ir- and.;.out in
 ,_- -- ·q_t1al:i ty.~··,·: Yle; must :bu±:ia b.s.: well .an. administ:rat'i ve ··if' our1:aation·., · the s-caff olding
 of which is pel'·manent and continuous ar1d .the quality of:• vvhich vr.ill alvv·a.ys be
 standard_. This permanent and continuous support of the political machinery
 ·.· .by~ ~1w-ttff[:rt.cf?--l•, ~qminis~f£,ttive ~e~-up.~-v1[:i. l ~ e3:ab.le Domini~n :i·1i1:ist_er.s-, when . they
 .i:).tl,eng1 -r.rar , cou~oil$ - .ei -cher Bri·t i;-3h . ~-Iar CahJ..D;et::, or an 1.mpel"'.:tal ·7 ar Council· -
 ~o have. !)-t ~h.f i:r dispos13..J- detailed ;Lp.formation from their. ,.technical advisers
 placing them in as good a position as British i.Iinisters . Some Dominion1::, have
 .alvrp.ys tak13:n ".thy: y.i.evr .that .) yr;i. t;l;1:qu,t such -.advice on th.e spyt · th~-ir . Prime i·Iinister:·
 •.' <;:>r; _-:_o.ther :,tep;resent,~t. :Lv.~-.. ~1:i,ght .. p.lnpe .J1is ovn1 counJt.Y..· in •a . f a~·s0 .·position by
 endo.rs~~1g a r.lecis.i.on.!)y tt1c;; .'./ar Ca.qi:q.et-~which his Government; -vwuld :r1ot be able
 to. . i ,m plemcnt ~ ':. ·' .: ·.:!' J\ · ... r:.i:.,·: j· . . "' I
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 ,·.~:. : ·•"• ,,, !. , 1·~' . .- . .. i':.· ,' ,.: ; '. !•: ~:·i ·, :· ..,; .,,..,_ . . ,'. . •, - ··~. .:.. . .
 Vfhat I feel ·is nee?i~1+Lto ·--;remedy; this , ;i~ - that the fullest .informati·dn
 should be conveyed to - and frorr_ - the :c• mini l •ni arid their vievJS sought and
 ·· EJxoha.nged; Yf:ii;}) critic,isr:\ given at1d taken . .. all . this being done qn a lovrer .
 p],.ane than th-.~ 'I:-Iinisterial level .$.nd at a 9_tp.ge when ·:foreign. policy and str ategy
 •·: are . still ~n. a fluid forr.i~ ,. · , .. ., . : ;_ .:_,- ,;· ·.· ·l• · . ,
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 · In every- ·department ;'·th.ere -is· ci l~vei ·.when key men are emp:loyeo . ·to sift the
 -.-vheat from the cha.ff , . nnd to make r$comr;10ndations to the men ··higher up - it may
 be the third. r.ia:n from the top, .or·, it m,,y be _the fifth.- At this po int there shculd
 be opportunity f9r · continuous bral iliscu:3::.;iq:ri ·bet'vreen.- ·th0se key men and the
 Dominion. officers · ao ore di te.O.. to these : depo.rtments .. . . . . ,
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 the foreign. ·policy side Australia has long been.' in., a tnore. _favourable .
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• • r • position tha:r1 the other Dominions because of her. aclo'ption· 6£'" the ·sys.tern ..: · first
 establis·hecl~ in 1924- - of -c:i. i lib::ils-on office attaol;ied. :. t'o · the Oabihe't ' Office. Yihat
 is novr neecJed, more than. ever in wartime, . ancJ. o..1.;solutely ··essehti·a 1 ·novr that the
 war h ,'J.3 spread to ull tho oceans· of · the world aJ10 to the shores of all the
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 Dominions { i.2, a more ·active D.__Dd complete :;ystcm of liaison ·.cov:-er:t:hg not only
 foreign policy· but -the thre(; fighting seiviees ,as well as SUJ:"lJ?lY and economic
 r~lations. .

 It •is1 6nly thus, in my opinion , ·that ·,-re - c811 01rnure." that the ~'Joint' of vie1.:;r
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 of AustrRiia ..;, and of the other Donlini6-rts' :.;,;. :,jjill b ·e alvr~jrs consid~red >
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 Air Hinistry· No .._· 6095
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 liillDLE EAST C.OIIM:UNIQUE
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 :Middl0 East
 Tuosd.ay

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 Further offoctive bombing raids on objectives in Tripolitania -_
were carried out by our air,craft during Sunday night 11th/12th Janu~y".
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 At Buerat El Hsun fires and explosions were caused, and concentrations
of enemy motorised and armoured forces to the west of Sirte were also
attacked.

 At Tripoli the Spanish Mole and shipping in the harbour -rrere again
bombed, but the results of the bombing could not be observed. Bombs were
also dropped at Homs 8Jld at various points along the coastal road.

 During yesterday (12th January) enonw motorised forces east of
El Agheila were attacked by our bomber aircraft, and Free French bombers
continued their raids on objectives at Halfaya -vri th good results·.

 From theso and other operations four of our aircraft are missing.
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 SHELTERS
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 The iiinistry of Horne Security is arranging to distribute
rui.indoor shelter -of the "r:Iorrison" table t)'I>e which v11i:Lll accornmo- ·
date t-vrlce as many people •. This new. shelter . is· 4' . 311 high ( as
against 2 r · 5 11 in ·the case of the ordinary "table0 sh~l,.'terJ and is
fitted for ;two beds, -one above the other •. It -is constn1cted of .
a steel top and framework with wire mesh panel[j like the orfginal
nl!Iorrison" but it is too high to be used as a table • ..

 rwo tier shelto.rs Vvill be distributed only in those areas
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vmere "Harrison" shelters ,n,re available, and hou_s eholders who have
recci ved the ordinary table shelter vv.i.11 be able to exchange, if
the latter is too small to accommodate the family.
 They vr.ill be supplied free tn these particular dis_tricts to
householders Ylho are dependent on an_ income of not mo:r;q than £350
a year and ·-vviil be ·on sale to other people,. The price vvi.11 bo
£9.15 .o., so that the household.er -vrho has already bought a table
shelter at a coot of ;;S7 vrill be able to e::ohango it for -a tvro
tier sheltJr on paymsnt of B2,15.0. plus the cost of the removal
of the original table shelter:from his address to ~~e Local
Authorityts Depot • .


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 Text of speech by the Rt . Hon. Anthony Eden ,
 Secretary of State fo:i:' ~.:1oTcic;n Affairs .


 We have had a number of Inter-Allied. meetings .at St. James ' s Palace
in recent months. This, hrnrever , is the :Ci:i:....;t -:rhich has been convened on the
initio.ti ve of the Allied Governments no;,,1 esto..blished in this country. Its
l)U:cposc is to make 1Jlain the o.ttitude of these Governments to the c:uel and
trazic events now taking pl ace in theiT cou..i:1t::cies .

 Our chairrnan , the representative of Toland., has been so k i nd. as to ask me
 to speok to you before the forrncl business of the moet i ng. I mysel f - and I
 am sure that I am DJ.s o speaking for the re}?resentati ves of the Domi ni ons uho
 are present to-day - run very glaa. to have been abl e to accept the invitation
 of the Allie a Governments to be ~)resent as an o-bserver, and I vrish to thank thorn
 for their courtesy in delaying this meetinG until after my return fx•orn Uoscou,

 His Majesty ' s Governmcnc o.:ce gl ad tho.t the Al lied Governments should havo
·wished to hold this meetinG at st . James ' s ?a1ace . This histori c build.inG
has become in a very res.l sonse a cent re for the r esistance of thu oppressed
nations of Eurapc to Ger1;1an ag[).."ession. Never has it had a ~norc insiJiring rol o
to play.

 To-day's meeting ·will once nore shrn.r the worlc1. that the Ge:cman so-call ed
 "NeY✓ Order" in Europe is o. sham. This false facade has comglotely fail ed to
 conceal the tyrcll1I\Y tho..t lies behind it , the oppression anc1 the bi·uto.li t i e s
 which have evcryvrhero marked the en.try of German troaps and of tho Gestapo into
· the or.cu pied count.cie s of Europe .
 'ro .... day' s mectinc is nlso a message of encouragement sent out to the
oppressed papula tions of Eu:t·ope . Their tenacity anc1. coUl"'aso ru..--e cont ribut i ng
to our ul tirno.te victory.

 Ho-.l a.iffereac is the C1.tmospher e to - dn.y , ho: a.iff orcnt uas tho at;mosphere
 of the l"cccnt conversn:tions at W::i.shinston ·•. nci. } ~osca.-r fra11 that of \,he meeting
 at Berlin o. few weeks ar,o a ttcndea. by the q_uislings of Europe and by the
 so.tellite s of the Third Reich.

 Th0 quislings have little reason to look to the fut ure with arzy- hope .
But \Te c•.rc meeting at a moment when, de spice all present sufferings a.11.cl
anxictius, the peopl es for ,-rhom you s-peal: cD.11 look for\la:L"d to the future uith
g:r•u,d..ns conf id.once .

 It is fit tine; that -this meeting shoulc: be cw.led by those rnos·c directly
concerned, tho Governments of thu oc cupied -tel~.citori es . It is fitt i ng that
they should. talce the initiative in decl3.l"ing tho pri nciplo s by which they will
be guid.ed. on thoir return to their liber[d:;od countries.

 All the nations rcpresente1l round thi3 tn.ble hn.vo suffered J.n a.i:ffcrent;
 degrees from ruthless aggressors. Their united strength, nae o.t last bcinc;
 harnessed to ·chc. comm.on cause , -.;rill ensure its victory ruid the establishr.101-rc
 o.J1d maintenance of a just ana. las-t:;in2: peace ,
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 vnn Vcrcluy:.:icn., :NcthcrJ_anc1s Hinistcr to the
 Court of Sto Jo.ncsn


 It vrrrs natu:c(1l thn.t in the presence of the rule of ter:cor i1-:-iposed
by Germany ri.r..c. her accomplices o:~ tr.e civil populations of tho oc8upied
countries, ·the Go,_rcrnrr.ents interestoa_ should take conccrtcc1 o.ction to reach
a common o.~;~:i tudo io·vn:1rcls the culpr:i. ts.

 The unc1c:r.-stn.nrlinz betrmc:n our r;ovcL:-J1nents has been r.'.lpidly reo..l;ised, 1


D.ncl toc1n.y ,.ve 1Lce<:; il1 this hiDtoric r c oj·_,., put ctt our di sposal l)J our En'---;lish
allies, to procccc.l Y1ith: t·he solcnm s~nin.7, of the Declnration we havo
est~iLilished~.
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 In this Dcclaratior.. v-10 cL..:;r:.ounce to the -~·mrlc1 t he ·brut n.li ty of t he
enemy , nnd ,:re u:rn1ertGkc t'J assu:.--c the punish1ncnt of the cuil ty .

 It const:i_tutcs an act o~ faith for the future ., ntLcl a promi~;c . On
one hRnd it rnn.rlG:1 01Jr U'1f'li.n0hi:1~~- f'0.ith in victory, and on the other
it cx_prossos our fiTrrl Yri.11 to se€ thcLt justice is done c It binds us
to n -,-.iide collo.1Jo:.."2.ti0n and cocmerati.:Jno This uncle;rstanc1ino inau0·'Lu"ates
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a rn3v~i era ij_l -t;b{!. durn.nin of repression of the crimes which -.:re have just
denounced . In -pursuinc this aim, \7e a~cc pe;rformin~ a sacrecl duty t ovrarc.ls
our oppressed peo~lcno

 Gent10rr•c fi, it is not sufficient -cc 1.d.sh for justice , it must nlso
lJe or:.3anisea.~ \?e ho.ve lJe r ;un this to.sk 7Jy lei.yin['. the f ounclations of a
 syster.:1 whic:1 v1ill ~Je pu·:; ;1.t the DCl"vicc of l:lv7 as soon ci.s circu..":lstanccs
 allow,. And thJ.s collubor-:::.0ion vv-hich -i:1e have so ha11pily inaucurnted
-rdll not stc,p at thc.: rep!'ession 0f t:!1.e c:riI:1es of our enemies , lJut vnll
 extend thrnu;-'hout nll S}Jhc:-i"3S of hrnnan a~ti vi ty for the ·well- bein,3 of
mankind in Q Yrorld a.e:-;..i·1e:-:::·sd frorr1 a.n:7,Uish n.rnl ,:;lo.very . J~ncl it is i n
 thi s spirit that the N3·~.l1eT.l 1.nds Governrnc11.t is r;lacl to coo:"Jerate by
 a~?pcndinr; its si3no.ture t c i~hi s Declaration, to ·~he applic!..Ltion of -r1hich
'Ne vv.i.11 r;i v0 om" full suppo1·-:~ ~ ·
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 INTER-.ALLIED C01':7ERENCE •.....§!_.. J.AM~s•s PAL.ACE , JANUARY 13;1942
 Statement by MoSramek, CZC£j'.l9Slovakia.

 The Government of the Czocho-sl0vak RepubJic heartily supports this
 declaration in the firm cconviction that its signature is endorsed by the ,;vhole
 Czecho-slovak nation.
 In the list of German atrocities there is not one which has not been co1nmitted
 against the C:zecho-slovaks., ffundrec1s of Czccr:o-slovak citizens have beeh executed
 or tortured to death~ tens of thous'-,nds have been thrmm into prison or into
 concentration camps; hundreds of thousands hav·e been made to do forced labour; the
 population of ·.1hole districts have been expelled to ma: re room for German intruders;
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 universities have been shut; secondary schools arc being suppressed by the dozen;
 schoolmasters and priests a.re being persecuted; tho patrimony of Czecho-slovakia
 is being o.rbitro.rily transfe:cred to tho Germans; the Gzecl0--slovaks people is "being
 barred from nll administrntive 1.--rork, systematically i::-~poterished intellectually
 oppressed and morally humiliated,.
 1111 these crimes committed bv.., the Germans call for and . will in the future call
 for retribution. Justicq Ydll be asked for bJ thousands of Czccho-slovak citizens
 who have been morally and physically broken in prisons and concentration camps; it
 will be demanded by the children of innocent citizens executed or tortured to death;
 it v.rill be exacted by the \7hole nation which has been Teduced to material and moral
 misery •
• The Czecho-slovak Government has not failed to denounce to the civilised-world
 on several occasions the terror let ~oosc by t~e GeLman invader in the Czecho-slovak
 countries. Nor has it failed to demand clearly 2nc1 firmly due punishment for all
 the German crimes committed in Czccho-slovakia~
 It is hnppy to J.mo..--r that its voice Yvill be heard r:1ore insistently today on the
 occasion of the solemn decluration ·vrhich the nine occupied European countries are
 making in the presence of rcprescntativ-es of the Great Povrers ·ii/ho have decided to
 pursue the fight against the -common enemy until final victory.
 The crimes comm.i tted by Germany and her s2.telli tes have no counterpart in world
 history. :rrt is not a question of mere occasional crimes due to the existence of a
 state. of -i:rar and the consequent deterioration of norma=:.. behaviour -vrhich are the de-
 plorable consequences 0£' every v--rar c On the contrary ·what is in question is a
 criminal campaign well thought out and prepared in advance dmm to the smallest de-
 tail and springing from the spirit of pnn-Germanis1a and Nazi ideology. The German
 people have been prepared for this c,s,mpaign du:cing many decades. TJ1e belief in
 the superiority of the German race to Yihom eve::-ything is permissible vis a vis the
 other nations; the vain spirit of domination and expansion demanding for Germany
 supremacy over the -vrhole world; the slogans "blood and soil" and as "by blood and
 the sword" .... and that alv-rays means the blood of others:· never German blood - hnve
 been impressed upon the German nation by its leaders and have ended by becoming the
 gospel of the German people.
 The result of all this is the criminal canpaign undertaken on an unlimited
 scale by Germany in the occupied countries.
 It is as a result of the perverted ideology of the GBrman people that, when
 in 1938 Hitler began his conquest of the -vvorld follo~.,-reci by the plundering of the
 conquered countries and tho rmssacre of their pJpulations , the German leaders had
 at their disposal a machine as sure and o.s brutal as the Gestapo and other organs
 of the German arbitrary rule~
 /Betvreen the
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 Betvmen the German leaders ana_ their executive orgo.ns there exists a
hierarchy of grades, but one can scarcely speak of a difference in ideology and
bad fni th. That is why the declaration rightly sti_pulates tho.t all th9se
responsible for the crines committed in occupied countries shall be punished,
Yvhether they have ordered then, perpetrated them or participated ih thehi, ·

 . The Czecho-slovak Govcrru~ent takes special note of the fact that this
declaration brings out the need for international solidarity so that none of
the German .crimes escapes punishE1cnt •. . In addition the declara tion clearly
lays doYm tho.t the crimes conu11i tted by Germany against the ci vili-an populo.tions
cannot be assimilated either to acts of war or Yri th political crir1cs. The
Czecho-slovak Government earnestly hopes that this conception of law will become
nn integral part of the ideology of the Ythole civilised world and vvill perrai t -
after the vvar - to search for every culprit, to deliver him to justice, to judge
hira and to execute the sentence passed.

 rn the fir1:1 hope that justice ·vtill triwnph I append my signature.

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 ThEJ French National Committee _a:pproves all the rnore the Joint Declo.ration
reo.d to us by General Sjj<:orski 1 since France has been invaded. by Germany three
times within a period of seventy yea:cs, and has therefore suffered. thrice in
less than a century the atrocities inevitably accompanying all Germ.an
occupation-.

 But, as the strength of the Reich grew, the extent ana. violence of these
atrocities incr~ased.. To-a.ay, OUi'' enemies, by placing E.ul their technic~ue
and all their skill at the service of their ferocity, have succe8ded in
establishing in Europe a more frightful 1.,egime te::cror than that installed of
by the Barbarian hara.es at the beginning of the liliddle · Ages.

 In signing this Joint Declaration today, vve mean, like all the roprescnta-
tive s of occupio<l countr:Le s., to declare solemnly tho.t Ger1 0.ny DJ.one is 1


responsible foi."' the outbreol: of this war and. that she shares vrith her allies
and accomplices resyonsibility for Dll the atrocities tho.t yroccea. from it.
V[e demonstrate OUl." fi:cm intention to see to it tho.t o.11 the 2:uil ty parties
and. men who 3.1.... e responsible in any way should no·t be allowed. to evade .jusJc
punishrnent as did ·chose of the other war.

 But if it is legitimate a.11.a. necessa:1.7 to cnsu1"c full punishment for
 crimes comr,1itted, :Lt is quite as ler;iti1110:bo n.nc1. nedessai-y tot ake the
 essential measures so that a renewal of such crimes shoulcl be maa.c irn11ossible.
\: e are oex·tairt that the solid.o.ri·by which. un..i.tes martyrisod Europe to-a.ay -vtill
 continue to mru-iifest its elf to-mol"rOVv, \ ✓hen our ·cask i-rill consist in ensuring
 that Germany \1ill never again be in a posi-bton to hnrm the ;.:10:r-ld.


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 The Nor1-re2;io..n Governi11E-nt vvish to eXJ)rcss their nc;rccment ·vr.i. th the
 /
general De clnrtltion nac1e by tho :1.llicc. Forces.

 Por aJ..most a thousand years Nornny b.as been a commun.ity where laws
rule. In one of our oldest :..aYv books:i "'1•-rhich wo..s corrrpilou. about 900 ycc.rs
ar~o, it wo.s laid clovm that the cou1Tcr·y must be sovernec1 1Jy · 12.~..- ;,,nC. not O~Joil t by
lawlessner)s, nnc1 sj.nce -chnt tin~e our people hnvc enjoyed personal security
t:.nc1 le,:::al protectior.Lo Th::.s pri:c.:.cii')lG has penetr8.ted very de2ply in the
minds of our people v so deeply that it coulc1 even 1Je considered ns the
real basis on which our com.·m1n:.ty. is fo1mdecl.

 It, is, therefore, all thJ rnoro a crime thGt the Germans have attempted
to devastate o-u:r whole cm1rnuni ty [1}1.cl to enforce upon us their system of
la-vJlessness, viole:11.ce: ancl c:"'ueJ:·'.;:v·, o..nd ~~he crirr.es com.mitted by them n.nd the
arbitrary o.rn: brutal ,Hay· ::.n ·;rhiGh t:1.e popul::1tion is novv trco.ted must not so
unpunishea.,r,

 Hovrever, in :erd J~s o: their ruthlessness the Nazis have not succeeded in
subduin.~: the Nr,rYre:=-Jr.-1 ~1eo1Jle v·rhose resistence o.r·o.inst oppression is stiffer
than ever before- o The occu1Jo.nts ho..ve sensed the icy conten.pt in Yrhich our Yrhole
popul['_tion holds them and they rire novr reven8inp themselves b,y -vJholcsale
murclcr, ill-t:ree,:trrer::; J.:nd ter:.:-o:-rism, This further rno.nifestation of German
brutality has been ::.necoivcd by 0ur people viith dignity and even icier contempt,
and has merely servecl. to conceive in. them o. r.r..covd.nr; hatred cmcl o. d.emand for the
punisb:Jcnt of' all these crimes anc.1 ntroc-i_ties.

 All the :rnesso.r0s ,ve re~cive :indicn.te tho.t o.lthough, thD.Ilks to Gerrnn.n
e1..'}_')loi ta-tion., the peo;11le of Ho:;."YT3.Y are livinp; on the v0r'."_:e of starvation
this 1.-r.i.nter, ·vvhnt -~~hey lone,: f :,r abo-ve nll is the rest'orc.tion of their
lilJcrty o.ncl the J'."i:.J·"tful lJUrr:.~:\lunent of the criminnl intruders•
 ' the fu i J.re, it vrill be qui tc impossible to mo.int n.ih
 I be licv8 that, i:1
communities lJasecl on ?re0clow o.nd respect for the lm; if the Nazi crimino.ls
do not meet thei:-- doom 3.r.i_a_ :.':"eccd.,.re the pU11islm1ent they deserve.
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 The No,r~ii''CJrr'.i2..n '}0Y-cr11111cn-t v:cl:;omc this Dccl:1ro.tion 2..s n.n expression
 of solidarity ·:Jetween aJ..l occu2?i8a cour.trie s, o..ncl we find it an iE1portant
 nnd neccsso.i";,r 1nco.surc in the clefencc of our future civilisation. ',7e are
·more than -v1il+in.e to clo ou1.... 7er:_;- 1.tmos~; to co-o-perato w:i. th all tho other
 Allies to cnsur0 -~l10..t t;hese N2.zi c:"'.'::i..rninnls - for they Dre nothing l1ut
 criminals - sho.11 ~~in.a. :ce-tri~Jution v1hcnevcr o.nd ;·-rherevcr they mc,_y be
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 Il\1TER- ALLIED CONFERENCE , JANUARY 13
 •
 , 1942

 Declo.rlltion by M. Joseph Bech,l'Hnistcr of Sto.te, Honoro.ry
 Einister for Foreic:,11 Aff8.irs of LlLCEI' IBOURG.
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 Never in the course of history has D. roic:n of terror been pre:po.rGd .'.llld
orr;o.nisccl vri th more cynicism o.nc1 o.prJlied v7i th more bruto.li ty than tho. t which
the Axis Poncrs o.re inflictinr; on the unho.ppy populo.tions of our countries .

 Hy country, 11ke yours , is suffcrin.s terribly under the yo~<:c of the
iirrplo.cablc enemy . Luxombourc has been , de f o.cto, incorporo.. tcd in. the Third
Reich . Its ins ti tutic:ns n.nd constitutional liberties ho.ve been o.bolishcd
and the Gcsto.po , n.ssisted by o. few trn.itors , reisns there o.s mC1.;:;ter . Tho
rn.cio.l lrrvrs ho..vc been introdu0ed, ::1.nd also• the ~\bomino.ble no.ti,mc.1- socio_list
conception of collective crime . Our monks , our priests, our Jcus , our
dfficials, our intellectuals end our vrorkers h11ve been expelled or deported
individually and in croups . Hosto.scs ho.vc been scizecl and the prisons are
filled vri th Luxembourc po.triots . Hundreds of others ho.ve bcon deported to
concentro..tion camps in Germany, or condemr1ed to forced labour in the stone
 q_uarrics and on the roads . Our youn[_:; men end our younc 3irls havo been
 deported to lo.bour carrrps v-rhcrc they arc exposed to the uorst c1Dx1Gcrs .

 Loyo.l ty to one t s country is considered by those -r1ho o.re for the time
being the mo..stc:rs as treachery, and c.x1y -r1hc offer rcsisto.ncc to the usurper
are punished as crimino.ls .

 You can understo.nc1 therefore 17ho.t un- no.mcd suffcrincs are endured by o.
small faithful nation ·i,;rhich is resist inc uno.nimi ty v1hich is pro.ctico.lly
univcrso.l .

 To3other uith your martyred populD..tions - to ,vhom I civc heartfelt
hom.o.r~e-; sorne of them aro suffering incomp2.rably rn.orc th.::w.1 ours - together
with yours my country cries out for justice !

 President Roosevelt o.nd Hr . VTinston Churchill , in their rit;htful
 condcmno.tion of such acts hr.\.VG mD.de thems0lvcs the interpreters of tho
 conscience of outraced hunmni ty .

 'Since then the world ho.s learnt vri th horror the revelation of the
 systemo..tic mo.ssacre of the civil populD..tion of Russia .

 The 11pplication of the principles lo.id cloYm in -the c1oclC1.ration
 submi ttod for our sic;netturcs , Yiill prevent th(j w2..r crimino.ls from evo.din.c:;
 their just punishment .,

 It is useless for the opprc::;sor to try hypocritically to cover his
 misdeeds Yrith fD.lsc lcu1l justifications for this is only o.nothGr bar~x1rous
 development of his philosophic o.nd political. conceptions,


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 It -vv:Ll1 be use loss when the day of victory comes for tho torturers of
our peoples to clf'.in .tho.t they only di.d •riho.t · they ,,rerc ordered to do o.nd
acted n.ccorc1inc; to their la-rrs. These lnus D.11.d ' the o.ppli co.tion of them arc
no-rr stizmo.tisod by the dccl0.ration of the; Govcrnn1c.mts of tho occupied
countries, as bcinr:; contrary to lo.:vr, the mor[).l 12.w as i;mll n.s na tionnl o..nd
international L 1..Yl.
 .

 The guilty vrill be lia-blo to the lnxrs of the · countries in which their
crimes ho,vc been cornmi ttca. If need be , our nCLtional lcGislD.tivo systGms
must be acJ.aptca to the c..ims laid doY1r1 in our common c1cclo.ro.tion D.Dd ., if
necessary , the repression of such crimes must be or~n.niscd on ru.1. intcrno:tional
basis.

 The solemn doc l aration 1vro arc novr makinc , is o. proof of the uni tea.
front r''ormcd by the n,1.tions which hc.ve been victins o;' ass;rcssion by the
Axis Pmrcrs . To wo.r criaino..ls o.nd tr:ii tors it uill bring tho curto.inty
end the fo~r th8.t they will b~ sou;.;ht out m1d brought to justice .

 Our popul~1.tions tor;cthcr Yrith the -rrholo di viliscc1 vPJrlc1, vrill find in
this de;:cln.ration the comfort thD.t is .c:;iven to the conscience of mD.Dkind
lJy the assurn...Y).cc tho.t juc-\tice will bo done , sternly b.ut calmly .
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 INTER-ALLIED CONFERENCE, JANUARY 13, 1942
 S.peech to be delivered on behalf of the Polish Delegation .
 by the .Anbassador and Acting Foreign Minister ( C'ount E JRaczynski) : -

 Poland, like BelgiuL1 in 1914, vras the first in this war to submit to the
onslaught of the Gerr. mn -rro.r 1:1achine. The Reich viola tcd Polish soil on the
1st September 1939- and its invading arr:iies r,mrched upon Warsmv i.-.rhich 1ivas sub-
jected to a terrible fate, And twenty rn.onths later, when it Yvas Russia's
turn to be attacked, Gerr:10.ny transforr:1ed the rest of the Republic into a theatre
of war. Because she resisted the German power by force of arras, Poland was
immediately subr.ri.tted to a regime of occupation, the barbarity of which is lll1!.'.ieard-
of, a regine which has for its aim the destruction of all the nation's vital
forces - its culture, traditions and economic achievements. The whole civilian
population is a victim to this desire of the Reich, as is also every individual
who lives deprived of his rights and CDinnot even be sure of his lif~, his honour
or his property.
 More than 80,000 citizens have been shot; tens of thousands, including
represent.atives of intellectual circles, have died in concentration cmnps;
hundreds of thousands have died of starvation or of misery inflicted by the
aggressor. According to statistics, mortality hasris.en 4 to 5 times, since be-
fore the \var, Hundreds of thousands of citizens have been sent to the Reich for
forced labour. And in addition, there are nearly tvYo millions of deportees
deprived of' all their property~ Millions are still awaiting the fate to be
meted out to then by the occupant. The schools are closed. The churches are
dishonoured, the clergy are hunted down. The museums; libraries, all that stands
for national culture, have been pillaged to benefit a greater Germany. And in
the Gouvei':hen1ent--General the executioner Doctor Frank surpasses himself vvi th each
succeeding day in violating the provisions of the Hague Convention.
 From amongst the innumerable acts perpetrated by Germany, legislative or
administrative, which fill civilised men with ho~ror ahd amazement; I will quote
only one, that of Quarter-Master MlUler, issued by order of the Generalissimo von
Brauchitsch on October 1, 1939. This decree extends to conquered Polish pro-
vinces the German penal codJ and authorises German tribunals to judge Poles "far
deeds committed before the outbreak of war". The order, furthermore, statuates
that the penal ties foreseen in this code may be applied also to persons under ago,
provided the qerman judges are satisfied that the maturity of these youngsters . is
sufficiently advanced. However shocking such a juridical construction may be,
it nevertheless cynically serves "the interests of the German nation"; it
facilitates the externination of the youth of another race.

 But all these v,rongs, inflicted on a nation which, united and resolute,
was the first to seize arms for the defence of its country and of Europe, must,
when the time comes, be made good by Germany. The wrongs com1-ni tted against the
civilian population will be treated as of~nces against the comrnon law, -rv:i. th all
the law's severity. The final victory of the Allies will find its measure in
the reparation of the wrongs inflicted, and the punishment of the offences
conm1Ltted, individually or collectively.

 In this spirit the Polish Govern-nent accedes to the present Declaration.

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 Text of a letter from the Chinese L.nbassador to the
 NetherlD.ncls Governocnt m1.d Charse cl' i.1.ffaircs to . _~ e
 Belgian and C.z;echoslovo.k Govei..nrnents, Mr-> \Tunsz i~ing.
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 Chinese Legation,
 London,



 Excellency,

 I have the honour to acknorrledge the recci11t of the Note of the 6th ·
instant ·which the CzechoslovnJ.c 1-t~nistry of Foreie:n .L.1.ffai~,.s vYas good ¢nough to
ha.ve adcll--essea.., in the n..L,'\L1.e of the o~cchoslovak Govcrrrc1cnt nnd. eight other
Governncnts in Europe, to this Legat::Lon inviting ne to be present on the
occasion of th~ signins of Q dcclal"ation relating to the punishrnent of the
crimes committed in territories occu-2ied. by the eneE1y., l.1. copy of the
declaration has lJeen ho..nd.ed to rne separately ..
 I no;r have the honour to inf om you that I o.H instructed by my
Governr~ent to accept this invitation and at the sm~e time to make :fully clear
its stn.x1d in regard to the problem vrhich forms tho subject matter of the joint
de cl Bration. ·
 In authorizing me to :po.rticipo.tc in the ceremony at the meoting of the
13th, the Chinese G0 ver11:ri1ent 'vJishes to subsc:.~ibe to the prihciples outline.a. in
the declni~ation by lvhich thl, crir.1es comuitted by the' enemy occu-J?ying authorities
a.re soleri1nly condemned. and the QU-chors arc· to be held accountable therefore, as
it is also its intention to o.pply the same principles to the Japanese occt ~,ying
authorities in China when the time comes.
 In those Chinese tcrr·ito:ries at present under J -: '-"""•.nese ocmrpation, the
Chinese people have during lon/3 yen.rs past fallen victim -~o the acts of barbai,..isrrt
and violence pe1'1)etr<'lted by the Jn.pane so, such as the mass ~urder of civilians ,
tho wilful destruction of culturtl and. educational institutions, the systematic
endeavour to deprave the Chinese race by means of no.rcotic dru.~s, and other acts
too many and too repulsive to be mentioned here.
 The Chinese Goverriment believes that thv elementary principles of
jnstice and morality co.nnot be vindicated, Uiu.ess the ·wrongs thus done to the
Chinese people o.s those done to other peoples arc equally rightec1. and the guilty
persons e c;,~al..1.y deolt ·with according to lrn·l.
 I have the honour to be, Excellency,
 Your obedient se1--vnnt,
 (St3d,,) Wunsz King
 Wunsz Kirtg, Chinese l.Iiniste~ accredited to the
 Nethe:rlands Govei"l.1ment and Charn..:e d' Affaires to
 the Belgian and Czoohosloval<: Goverrnnents in London.
His Excellency Dr~ Hubert Ripka
The acting Minister of Foreign Z.ff'airs of
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 Sto.tor_:.cnt by Eis Excellency .i'.I . EmC1.nuol T souderos ,
 l"rino i\1in:.:..s-cer· of Greuce

 At the bc[Sinninc of October, shorcly ..-rr"ter rny ar.civ~:.l in London., I received. o.n
 official report r:-rivinG o. no.st harrowin.c; o.ccount of thG crude 3.11.d ho:criblc crimes
 coriBi ttad by the GerrnD.ns in Crete.
 Yieldin0 to tho ::i.r:1pulso of natu:crJ_ i:ndic;na~ion Yrhich cmne over me , I -v,r.cote at
 once to Hr. Churchill to say tho.t the 1-:i0rpe·cration of such foul crines should. not
 rei:.1.ain unpunishcci... My action uo.s favourably rccei vocl l•y tho British Govei"'nr11ent,
 nnd press.
 Durinr~ the lc:i.s t \7:J.:r mrrnif estations of collccti vc bc.•.:rlxu""ism on a lai...Je scale
 I • I
 l)cgan to nakc tbcir o.ppeero.nco w~1ong certC1.in ~oeoplcs of the European C01Yc1nen-c .
 The id.co. that 1.fhole nations can l)e extcrmino.ted. or u~rootea. seems to have been
 revi vea. in ouT tine ,:rith extrene violence . . This conception if1 purely a Gcrrnan one ,
 o.nrl the IC1..lkn.ns vri-tnessed i-cs application clurin;£ 'the lD.:-) t; Ylfil"", in Greek: o.nc1 Serbin.n
 i'/Iaccclonia, by those fn.i thf-ul sfltellites o.nd. ini t:::..to:cs of the ~~erman~; - the Bulgnrs .
 The sCJ1.r;uinfu"Y nethods then. :1.ppliec. o.ro bcin;::; reDC{'.tecJ to- day on an even "\•r ic1cr
 sco.le .
 Crete ho.s been devastatec3. from end to encl., D...."11.d more thQD a thouso.na. Cretans
 ho.ve been executed D.EC1.inst every principle of :...·i,c ;ht , lssr or justice. l'/Iany villur:es
 ho.vc •been cleliberPLtely bu:cnt, .'.lncl razed. to the ::younc1_. since the islnncJ. \fas
 canqi1.erea. by the cnc1:1y.
 In 1'/Io.ccdonia the situation equ.clly :,::r'i,1, m:_cl in the :;.'.'j_ch p:i"'ovinccs occu21iod
 i2,
by the Bulgars it is even moi--e tra.:;ic., Flou:i"ishing trn7ns hr1-ve -been d.est:;_--oyod. by
the Bulgru"ian Forces, their pcG.ceiul inhibitants ho.ve been ri1::tssacrecl in cold blood.
lJy the raech2.niseC:.: cleto.chmcnts oi:' these 30.,vc.1.:-; es. IVI:J.ny thous.:.:nds of innocent vict:i.Jns
have 1::::;en done to death and more th:.m . 100 , 000 have lJeen dJ::-ivcn from their homos Dnd
forced to seek refuGc in Southe:"'11- Gi"ecce ., ·xhere fmninc is tlreaay rEJ·,1p.:1nt ..
 '
 In o. meuoro.ndup1 •1l-1 ich I have the honour to lD.y before this conference , arid
 · h vT.L· 11 b c cl it::cri
\/ l1ic · ' · b u·ce t .Lv1LC
 · . . ·-o 1
 ~9aT-c1ci1:;:ia·cing
 • · • .. overnmcircr.,
 1l'1 ' , I l10.ve ·crieu.
 J' · , ·co
 • ' r"e ·t.,'- r.'=L,'. ce
the methods of exterrn.ination prac·cisecl in cold. blood lJy tho Gel"li18..i.1.s , Itc.lians , ona.
Bulzo.rs, \/ith th8 obje;ct cf brincinG at,out , \Jith f:.-~·iinc rLs their ~rim cJ.ly , the
destruction of the Greek population in order that Italians and. Bulg:n---s m.'.ly esto.bl ish
ther.1sel ves permo,,nently in G:coece .
 It is OUT rluty to l)U-C an end to this state of r.i'f'n..irs, '.lnc1 tho means ad.voc.'.lted
by our present dccloration should 0urcly be atterrrpted.
 Certainly the rise of the totalitarian syster:1s, the re-sh1:ffling of values ,
·which they ho.ve c:r0at<.::d., their deifics:cion of violence ,'.U7.d. of \:F,'1r , D.I'c at the root
of present calnnitics and · constitute phenorne:no., 1,1.1.ose outstru.1.c:~ing uharllcteristic is
tho.t they nTc collective . For this reo.son the only effective rcr1.1eay for the evil
must be collective c-J.so.
 The resT1onsi1Jle poo_plos must lJe fore ea. as fa.I' as possible to i~ cpair the dc1.mago
which they hctve clone , o.nd. -che Inenns rnust ·be tal-cen froa ther1· which vrould. enable them
once more to perpetrate those criH1es •,rhich the Gen-1n.ns have cJ.reo.<ly corn.mi ttca. on t vvo
occo.sions, :::md the
 ti
 Bulr:o..rs on tlrree 1.1ithin the last nuarter of a century.
 ~ -
 These seem to me to be the most effective rtK:as'G'es for preventing a future
recrudescence of the horrors to i.-rhich t housfi.nds of innocent victi1:1s El.Te being
subjectec..
 It is true thC1.t colle0tive rnacJness ancl -,Jassion o.re pcv-rerful inC'entives irnJ.eed,
but they a.o not entirely elirnirnTce in cc: .ch incliviclual tho very lY':Jl instinct of self--
 1


preservation; this instinct ca11. 1)o e.::q_)loitecl. Henceforth lrutchcrs, gaolers, anc1.
looters of every kind-, '.'Till no lon!~~er l)e ulowef'l inili_vid_u{!l1-J~~
 ' t Jcw-re
 <~-~"'
 elude their rem:)Onsi-
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oilitie~\- on th .
 - e specious pre·cex '
 ·c 1. 1cy
 . :rrc act.in::_: uncier
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principl'e ·or International Pcnol Law has come into bcin::. It ,;v-ill cl.oubtless se1:·ve to
foi"estn.11 some further nisdeca.s. 1-Io:._~cover., - for one should never ceo.so to hCLvc fai th
in htu.110.11 nature - it is possilJlc tha-0 by this means r:unong the least coriupt o.n awak:en-
ing of'the ind.ivicJuw. conscience whicl-1. _o:,P!?U't.I's to-day to be so l)l"ofoundly cli'.LJ[;_zecl, may
perhD:.f>S ·be provokea.. If this hG.p~1ens the rriost redoubtable menacc3 to the ~::rego.rious
instinct of the toto.litorim1 }:COJ.?1es ·\ 1ill have .~1.t lo.st become OJ?er-'.ltive . It is with
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this hope that I have ti. ffixed. the sign:1turc of Greece to this cornrnon cJ.eclc:w.:."'o:cion•
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 13/1/42 No . 24 .


 INTER-ALLIED CONFERE:NCE

 Statement by Royal Yugoslav Government

 •
 The Royal Yugoslav Government attaches the utmost ir11portance to the
 declaration which vie have just signed in the presence of the eminent
 representatives of the Allies .

 The crimes Yrhich the Germans, their satellites and the traitor-
 accomplices have peryetrnted against the unfortunate Yugoslav population
 have ·no precedent in the history of the civilis~d world.

 Since the tragic morning of the 6th April, Yvhen· Germnny cunningly
 1.aunched the air attack against the unprotected inhabitants of the open city
"' of Beograd, the most' t'errible atrocities have been and continue to be com-
 mitted against a people which has not itself committed any crime except to
 refuse to accept a new order contrary to its own ideals of nationnl independence,
 democratic liberty and international -justice; -

 Hundreds ·or thousnnds ·of Yugoslavs have already fallen victims to the
 invader and his accomplices. So1i1e other hundreds of thousand_s have been
 forced to abandon their homes, to lenve room for the conquerors~ Entire
 localities have been 7.estroyed and the _inhnbitants almost completely massacred
 to punish innocent people .for the resistance which the Yugoslav army is con-
 tinuing to · oppose to the aggressors.·

 Nothing can justify these atrocities .· They will not be forgotten and
 the culprits should be certain, from now on, that they will have to expiate
 all their crimes, after the day of victory, of vrhich the first glimmers can
 • already be perceived on the horizon darkened by so many sufferings.

 In adhering, by this commondeclaration, to the declaration already
 made by the President of the U.S.A. and the Prime Minister of Great Britain,
 we place definitely among our principal war aims the just punishment for
 these crimes.

 The Royal Yugoslav Government hopes that we shall not rest there and
 that the solidarity shown today vvill serve to form a moral and juridical
 basis of a ~eally new order, v1herein no possibility 'Will be left for the
 repetition of such returns to barbarism.

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 Troops recently returned from Malta, bear v.ritness to the high
morale of islanders and gnrrison.

 The garrison, some of whom were stationed on the island in
pre-war days, have constant training to repel air and sen o..ttncks. Tho
anti-o,,ircraft barrnge, "looking like a sheet of steel in the ni3ht honvcns"
is a great comfort to tho inhabitants, who had hcnrd 1 1 200 alerts up to
the 10th January. Guns of every calibre have brought down about 80 'planes
and drunagcd numerous others~

 Despite intensity of training and raids, the troops can still onjoy
short spells of relaxati_on. Up-to-d:1te films o.re sho'wn. The :rvro.lta Amateur
Dramatic Society ho:ve given plays vr.ritten .::md produced in his npo..re time by
o. 31 yeo:r old RcgulaJ."' Stn.ff Officer. Ninny soldiers loo..rn Maltose after parn.dc
hours nnd rccei ve a £10 bonus on acquiring a good command of the lo.nguQge,

 "The .krmy food is very good" said an .Anti-Aircraft Ln-noe-Bombarclier
v:ho hn.d been on the island since 1939. "A first-clnss oycnihg meal co.n be obtn.ined
fron nny rect'nurnnt for lco::1 thru.1 3/-. ·. :o· 111:c the inl(.tno.. beer, brc..-c)c1 loc~J.ly :1nd
}:nm.n n.s tciEk' • The "lijnc . o~llod 'C\.t1bito~ is o. little tco strong, even for us.
Goat ts milk is populrir. . . '· . .
 "The troops idolised Licutcno.nt-Gencral Sir Willir.un Dobbio, Cormnm1der-
 in-Chief md Governor. f.J. though he was n sticl<..lcr for discipline, I snvr the
humnn side of his nature when he hacl a tea pnrty ~aith some n.o,os., Ho uantcd
 to lem-n dnrts. I gave him a lesson and he become quite good .

 "Tho islanders get on very well Yd th the troops. They n.re violently
o.nti-Ito.lian o.nd the 3ritish flo.g mco.ns everything in the v10rld to them,
They ho.vc shown great kiudness n.nd considcrn.tion to soldiers billeted on them.

 "Air ro.id deaths hl -,,c been compo.rn.ti vely light - there is no ne ed. for
casualties as everyone is vvithin- two minutes of a rock shelter. 11

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 . 13/1/42 -· No. 29


 OFFICIAL ADN.IRALTY COMlillNIQUE

 Submarinos of the 1/iodi torranean Fleet have inflicted further los:s
and damage upon tho enemy.

 The Italian minomreeper SANTO PIETRO has been sunk by one of our
submarines.

 The Italian supply ship SIR10, of 5,222 tons, was torpedoed nnd ·
seriously damaged. This ship was last ·seon in tovr and the Gnerny may
hav.e suco.o eded i.11 g0tting her into harbour.

 Another enemy supply ship, of mediurn siz0,was engage<;L oy gunfire
by one of our subrnarinos. This ship was on fire 3lld doTm. by the stern
·when the action was broken off OvYing to interference by enemy shore
batteries.
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 HOYf SOLLU.M ... Y!AS· ·. ·c.APTURED


 The follovrlng is the te::;ct of a talk after the
 6 p.m. nevv'S this evening by iir •. Bruce Anderson,
 of the South African Broadcasting Corporation,
 -vrhich ·JQS rocordea. in Sollun yesterd8.y, uhilst
 ~atching the full of the place.

 "Tvv0 days ago, under cover of one of the worst dust-storms I've ever
seen in the Ylestern Desert, South African troops took up their formations
on the ridge over-looking Sollum Harbour. I 'H speaJ<:ing new· from Sollum
Barracks, and 1 'm looking through a grooved vr.i.ndovr do,~m on to the harbour •

 . Sporadic mortar and artillery fire are coming across the bay from
Halfaya Pass, where the Germans are still situated, and the brunt of this
attack on Sollum Harbour has been borne by a battalion of a well-knovm
Transvaal Scottish regiment •
 •
 From where I am speaking no~, I can see the pier, and at the end of
the pier - the end near the land, there I s a two-storey building vrhich was
a strongpoint of the Germans and Italians,. and this . morning vre 've captured
that building, and just a few minutes ago, looking through the field--
glas se s, I could see about tvrl.::nty or thirty prisoners•- They are novr going
to .be marched up the side• of the hill, and yesterday, while I was watching
this battle ( the first stages of ·it) the men i.-1ere marched up the hill as
prisoners and wounded and carrying a big red cross flag so that the Germans
wouldn't shoot at them from across the Bay •.

 This - is a little different from Bardia in view, because Bardia itself
is built on 3n escarpment and Sollum is dorm belovr ► The harbour is rather
spread out, and one house in partic lar - a pink house with a white wall -
gave us a considerable amount of trouble yesterday because all these houses
although they only :''appear to be just ordinary, are really fortresses in
themselves, and this ona nith the red - red house with the white wall- was
the Company Commander's. Anyway,. we tve got that house now and the centre
of the tovm. is pretty well cleared up.

 Sollum in itself is of no great strategic advruLtage because it _can be
 shelled from Halfaya. At the same time, it cuts out any opportunity of
food being brought to
 the Germans by sea. we've taken quite a number of
prisoners here, and altogether the show is going very well • ... Later on this
 afternoon, with ruiy luck, and good mana gement we shall olen.t-· up the
remaining houses which are on the north side of the pier and then we shall
have Sollum in our hands. At the moment there's an aeroplane flying over
'1/vhich is doing artillery reconnaissance and everything is g_ui te quiet here. 11
 - '
 "It's now nine o'clock - just ten minutes since I made that lasr record
and some of the officers of the Trruisvan.l Scottish h.9.Y'3 told me that a flag
has been seen .. they can't quite see what flag it is, but it appears nov;
that Sollum has,surrendered.
 '·

 I can see vm.lking across iil . a vri.de op:Jn formation a number of South
Afr ican troops going from house to house cleaning up the remmants of the
Germans and Italians still in the houses, and so on J:anu.ary the 12th,
another- German str·o ngpoint has been cleared out lea9'ing a still narrower
force in Half n.ya Pass, our next objective. 11


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 FolloY(in~ is the text of the to.lk to be b:road.cast
 on the Hor.1c Sc1.. vice o.t 9. 25 tonic;ht: -


 The story of the Tchotniks is fascinating. It is a story of uar-.Lare ·rrac;ed.
in the heart of the Balkans. AGainst tho Tchctnik ArE1y the Gernans have brought
into play dive bombers, tanks, h0avy artillers and parachutists; Tchetnik
strongholds have been shelled by the Italian Adriatic fleet .

 In Dccenbcr, after several t1on-ths of o. bitter and bloody strugr;le , the
Gcrnru1. CoL11--:1nndcr of Belrsrad.e announced. his intention to 1,-.ri:pe out the Tchetnik
Army. it.llechanised divisions ,Jere clispatched to the mountains . The Gcrraans
achieved a few initial successes , they pushed the Tchetnik for c es back fr•on their
most advanced positions. Thousru1.ds of nostly im1.oc(;}nt people vrere killed; but
the Tchetniks still fought on.

 How a.id it cone to nll this? _· 17hen Yugoslavia \las invadea.,. at the beginning
of last April, the Yu.'.sosl[1V Ai"my -v✓-as beaten 1•·Ti thin a fe-r1 days ~ The Yugoslav
Government fled abroad. anc'i. o:cganised a nei:7 Army 1~rhich no.r fights in the Middle
East.

 Many more Yugoslavs, hrn-rcver, k0pt up the fight inside their rn-:n country.
They refused. to submit to the Armistice , -r:rhich they consic3.e1--ed. a treacherous act .
So instead of layinG a.ovrn their ar~~1s and going home, a sL10J.l o..rmy of desperate
r.1en f ollorrea~ the trek of their f orcfathers, and took to the r.10untains. Wit h
then they brought lJD.rt of their equipri1ent, incluainz_ arrnnunition and light
artillery.

 In the almost im.penetrablc -r1oods of the Serbian r,1ountains they -rverc safe .
Herc they o:cganised thensel ves into small units t:co.inod for fast and hard hittinr,
offensive actions.

 Central comDands vrcre set up Yrhich kept contact by -v.ray of radio. These r.1en
ana, \7omen, because they also play thei:c part , -rrere bound together by a unity as
it haa. haraly ever before existed in Yugoslav history. Most of' them \""Tere Serbian
peasants, but there were among theu also Croats and Slovenes. Their leadex·s
vrere 1:1ostly professional officers, la;;ryers, teachers, politicians. There
existed no reli r;;:ious differences,· both ru1on:.1.: the offitt ers and the r,1en vvere
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follovvers· of the Serbian Orthoc1ox. Church, Catholics and Jews .

 So it came that thanks to the heroic spirit of the Yugoslav na·cion, and
thanks to the shelter Yvhich the ·.,rild. Serb=i:-an woods provide for the Tchetnilcs,
Yugoslavia is practically the only country in Nazi Europe -vrhere the Gen·,1ans still
meet v~1i th OI'ganised ar~~1ecl opposition. :,

 In tho be z inning TchetnDc activities consisted. chiefly in scout uork , SrnaJ.l
gangs of men were sent out fron the r,1ountains dov;n to the open plains . With the
help of the local population o. nation--v1ide nili tary intelligence service ,.-,ras
built u:-_p. This kept the gue:r·illa leaders informed so that they knerr in tine of
every move of the Axis troops.

 By the time the Gerna.:n-:J.ussian Yvar broke out, the guerilla chiefs had
finished. their pre1'.)a.1"ations. Their Arrny had siirollen in the neancime to about
100,000 111en. Reinfo:i..~cenents had. crn:-ie }Jouring in fron·peasants Hhco the Ger:mans
had a.riven from their hones.

 Successful Tchet:n.ik SO:i.."-'cies were no·:r unclertn.ken in great nu.nbers along the
fevi rail-roads leading tln."ough the L10U11.tains.


 /ItaliD.n troops
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 Itn.li8.Jl troops und detacr.1nents of the C-ron.t puppet Governnent felt the first
i.-n1')0.ct of the Tchotnik offensive.

 ByJuly ~£\St yc,'.ll' bct-rreen one-fifth Emd -b:ro-fifths of the country had ·
 in fn.ct come under '.J:chotnik rulo . Tchetniks issu~d passports , mobilised
 the r.1&.le population J printed ne\7S shoots in Serbian 811d Groat E\Jld Slovene •
 Their special seals bo~e the inscription : Unoccupied Serbia.

 Against tho Gcrr_r1~.ns the Tcho tniks . first applioc1 moa...vi:J of active sabotage .
Small Tchotnik go.n~;S of .~.:bout 50 to 1 00 r.1en worked in close co- operation iirl. th the
local populo..tion.. Tolophono oal1les vmre cut, important bridges were b l ovm up ,
trair1r-1 dor.'.liled, railv-ray depots and fuel stores wore fired. The ontire ro..il way
system of tho cou..YJ.try i.::ras coE1plctely throvm out of gerr. Axi[\-controlled
nevvS-fY1pers bore long lists of raili.rro..y lines virhore tro.ff.ic had been suspended .
The journey through Yugosls:v-.i..a from S..-ri tzorlo.nd to Turkey took an Argentine
Minister 11 dn.ys instoG.d of less tha.r1 24 hours .

 Follovring tho Russi.-:·-.."'.1 scorched.... earth l)olicy tho Tchctni ks advised the poasnnts
to fire their grain before tho h,irvcst could be · roapod .
 1
 Tho Belgrade newspaper Donauzoi tunrr wrote on .i\. ugust 4th: "'I horo ho.s boon
sabotage·. assassinations·, arson:---I{·~~oatfiolds burn Serbs wil l go broadloss .
If roads; corrm.1..1.nications., telophonej, :1:n.d utilities are destroyed, Serbian economy
·will suf'forc 11 · 1.'ho Tcho-:;niks ., •Ji th the help of secret radio tro.:r1sL1i tters and
loni.,lct::1, -vmrc quiol•;:: to tell. the population that it frould be oettor to starve
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than ·to submit.,

 Go.tting increasingly bold., the TohGtniks soon Gm.barked on major operations.
They carried their activi tios right o.t the go.tos of Bclgro..do , . and even into the
capital~

 The riclgrado po1-rer st,'.::.tion vr8.S "blovrn up ; Gonortl Schroeder, tho German
C ornrnander ·of Bolgro.de;, dic<l mys~eriously ; ( tho Germans said he vro..s killed by ctn
aircra.ft screw) ; Ger.mar.. soluiors nnd Gestapo .stgents vro:re almost daily killed 'in
the streets - of Belgrade,,· Eventually the Germm1s docl2..rod a state of siege , first
in Bolgro.do , later it Yras extended to all parts of the country . Hosto.ges wore
t~kon ond it was officially announced that for every Gerrn.an killed, 100 Serbians
would be bu tcherod.

 By mid-"'luly pitched battles wore razing in 8.11 parts of Yugoslavia. Tho
Invisiblo Army of the TchetniJc2, struck h::,.rd, and unoxpocted . One of the oncount0rs
took place F-1. t ShrJJo.tz, 30L10 1+0 milo_s fr,_:,n Lclgraclo , Shn.batz had a special
sig:nificE:noc for the 'I'chet~iks. During the last vro..r this small tovm becD.mo famous
as the 11 Sorbi2J1 Verdun.""

 Tho battle of Shabatz lastoc... trm days . It b~ga..TJ. vr.i.th Tchotni k forces
surrounding and taking the tovm~ Tho local Gerr1on garrison was rumihilated. The
Germans brought up rcmforcrn~1ej_1ts frou th8 noo.rby Belgrade .
 '
 According tc GeTI~D.Il reports, which in this CQsc, Dk~y perhaps be trusted , the
German counter attack was carried ol1t by a full motorised division against a
Tchotnik force of 5 , 000 to 8 _,000 _r10n ~mc.l 'Nomon, of whom about 2 , 000 wore kil led .

 Agai:.1st the· ~:r0r~mo.J1 Stukas ancl heo.vy ~..rtillo:ry, the Tchetniks omployed their
light artillery, hUTriedly built cmti- t::.wJz traps; and above all their intirn.c..te
knovrlodge of their country. Tho Tchetniks oventuolly m::\.de good t heir rGtreat .
But tho Gorrnans took o.. terrible. revenge cb.:n tho local popul aticn. About 20
villages were razed to tho ground, men , vmrnon, and ohilclron vvere shot out of hn.nd.

 Try-ing to engineer oi vil war in Serbia , the Ger.mans Dllovved the Sorbi nn
Quisling Gonortl Noditch to set up a Govorn.r;1ont . In return they securBd Neditch t s
promise that ho would JYJ.obilisc Sorbin:r. volunteers to fight the Tchet:iiks ,.

 Nost of his so co.llcd voluntoers , desortea. ~md joined tho Tchetniks .

 /Tchetnik
 -3-
 Tchetnik activities, insteacl of diminis1ing, grerr and grerr. Bel3raa.e
-rvaiS virtually invested so that food and fuel ran short. Drago Vladek,
 Quisling President of the Belgrade Municipal Council, broadcasting on
 Novem11er 5, admitted that for the past months not one kilogram of flour
had reached Belgrade. tNovo Vrerqe.,' a Belg::."ade ne\mpaper, wrote on
 November l: "Belgraders, your rooms are cold. because the Tchetniks have
 destroyed the coal nines. The hospitals cannot r eceive th e sick because
th e i. .·ards cannot be heated. , You cannot visit your friends and rel~tions
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in th e provinces because the Tohetniks have made the corummications
i n1poss ible. If your fanily is hungry it i s because tho Tohetniks obstuct
the transport of food to the tovtns. 11

 In vieF of all these difficulties, the Germans ordered General
Neditch t o offer an armistice t o the 'Ichetnik leader, Colonel Mihajlov.i.tch.

 NoYr as you may hn.ve seen, G-cneral ltihaj lovi tch has just· been made
Minist er of \:ar by the Yugoslav Government - · ..'hat sort of man is he?
Ana -:;rhat is his history?

 Mihajlovitch is 48, tall, and -b londe, He fought the. Turks in 1912,
the Bulgars in 1913, the Austrians and Germans in \7or lc1 l;(ar No.. 1. _An
expert in guerilla 1-;rarf'are he developed, long before . the present ·war_.
the idea of the Invisible Army. He studiecl Serbian military history"
 r/hen the Germans overran Yugos·lavia, in 1\.pril 1941, Mihaj,lovi tch
refused a place aboard one of the 'planes bound for Cairo. In the moU11tains
hi s army of Loyalists joined hands with smaller bands of insurc;ents and
rcfuoees • .
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 Mihajlovitch's outstanding military skill v-ras recognised by all. He
became the undisputed leader, the Vajved, or Co:mwancler in Chief.

 The Yugosla v GovernE1ent in London made the Colonel a General, and
later, ?lar Mini st er.

 In his mountain headquarters Mihn.jlovitch received Neditch's emissaries.
A provisional truce was ag reed on for the time of' tho negotiations. For
aJJnost a fortnight the fight ceased, only t o flare up still fiercer after
the breakdovm of the negotiations. On December 9 the German High Comi1and
in Belgrade proL1isod in a proclamation a re-:.~arcl of 200,000 Dinars for
the capture of Draza Mi.haj lovi t ch, the 1 cacler, o.s this proclamation call ea.
him., of the outlavrs and r ebels.

 The war in Yugoslavia is ruthless. No quarter is g iven, or expected,
on either side. The Yugos lav nation which lost nore th~n a million men
during the last ·war, is suffcrinr: terribly.. But so o.rc the Axis troops
of occupation.

 From a military point of vi e'J the Tchetnik \•v ar has a direct bearinz
on the general war situation. It binds troops anc7. equipment which the
Gerr1H3.ns and It alians may be n eeding in Russia_ or Africa.

 After the latest reinfor6ements the Germans arc estimated to ho.ve
four divisions in Yugoslavia, besio.es an AIT'.ly of Gestapo agents. The
Italians too have to keep an army of occupation in the Italian occupied
parts of Yugoslavia.
 This explains the German effort to cro.sh tho ·:~1 Chctniks by hook or by
brook.
 The Tchetniks are in a desperate po~ition. They are iso}ated, .
a~d ~ay be so for some tilne to cane· th?ir supply problcn1s m~sc 9~ ~e~ting
a.ifficul t; they a re exposed to the terrific cold of the. Serbian Wini:;~r"
But they keep up the fight, ancl. they keep open a front in Europe 1 which,
one day, may become of vital iruportance.


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BRITISH BROAIXJAST ING CORPORATION
 It is le urned in London that there is no officin.l n.u_thori ty
for the stn.tements regarding air strengths· in Mo.laya v1hich appeared
in certttin papers to~day. ·

 It is not in the public interest to c1isc:.ose i'..ir Force strengths
in this or in other thaci.tres of -vmr, not is it the custom to divulge
movements of oircrn.ft.

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AIR AFFAIRS
]i£~e (13_~~~) •
 1lb/.L:-_2
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 NATIONAL DRIVE FOR COLLECTION OF SCRAP UETAL

 The plnn to clean up Essex of n,ll scro..p metD.l -vro.s 1-:orked out today
 (Tuesdo.y). · Lir. George CD.rter, vmo is orgnnising for Lord Rei th o. vo.st
 no..tiono.l drive for forty thouso.nd tons of' iron D.nd steel scrap per
 ueek, to meet the urgent d0mands of our steel works, is startinK on
 Jn.nua.J;"y 21 in :csse::, 'Jil tshire and Cuuberlond.

 Essex has been di vidcd into eleven o.r0ns, each with a tovm as its
 centro.l point. These torn-is a:re Chel1:1Sforcl., Brent1·vood, Southend, i'.~o.ldcn,
ColoheD-c(:r, Cln.cton, Ho.rvli.ch, 3raintree, Saffron Wn.ldon, J)w1ID0'.1 n.nd Epping.
 Around eo..ch is o. number of villages and h:::unlets.

 The 1..Iinistry of Uorks tenrt1 of nen and lorries Hill st0-.rt on J·n.rmary
 21 in the Chelmz:ford o.reo.. Having tcucen every dump and other snD.11
 c'.lm.ounts of scrap, cJ1d sent it to the rD.iJ11.ead, -the tec::.m -v!ill move to
 Brer:.twG>ocl, nnd thus 1)roce0d on a methodicil ·m7ecp of the entire county.

 The people of Essex, including all householders, tradesmen, people
 1-.ri th 1Jrivate u:vl public gc1ro.ges, builders, factory mann.gers an.d farmers
 Dre asked to be ready as soon as possible to offer all their w1v1o.nted ·
 metal for the nationo.l melting pot •

 . The :people of Cumberlo.nd and 'i.Tiltshirc, 11la...11s for rvhich -will be
 ready tomorroY1 (Hedncsdn.y), o..re also n.sked to prepo.ro.

 Vfuere a_umps are established, these should ·be increcLScd m:.'Uly times.
 rlh0re no dur:i.ps exist they should be creatc(1 irrir;:1edio..tely ..
 '
 Mo.ny offers of help f1o;;,-ed into the ! iinistry of' 1Norks yesterday by
 · telephone, telegram and pe:csonal calls. Big firms off erod assisto.nce
 cf 8ll kinds. The 1.iin-i.stry accepted three thousand penny-in-the.-slot
 machines from the British Automr::.tic Gor1po.ny.

 All information 3.i.1.d offers of help in this all-importo.nt drive
 should be o.ddressec1 to 1'Sorap Recovery", r:Iinistry of 7lorks, London, S.E.1.


 MINISTRY . OF 1
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 PRISONERS OF YU'JJ.. IN Ji:J?.ANESE HliNDS


 The Jo.pnnese Government ho.s inti.rno.tcd ·thnt ·it is prcp:'.:lred to
tr~nsrnit to the Tnterno.tional Red Cross Committee ' s Centro.l Agency
in Gcnevo., for excho.nGG vdth the belligerent states, information
concerning prisoners of wnr.

 It is also rcaay to exchange the sarne information, as far ns
possible, recording interned non- combatants .

 A Prisoners of Ylnr Information Bureau has heen set up in Toldo
to collect o.nd tro.nsmit information a.bout prisoners in Jo.po.nese hn.nds.



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 13/1/42 - No. 35

 Air liinist!"'J No. 6097

 AIR MINISTRY AND MINISTRY OF H01vlE SECURITY COM}filNIQUE

 This aftornoon_a single enemy aircraft dropped bombs at a place
on the North-East (}on.st of England, cmd another aircraft dropped
bombs on a ooastDl tovm of East Anglia- At oach place some damage
was dona. Thero wore c as~altics, and some people wero killed •
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