Reports reaching Paris tonight said that 400 Jews had been massacred in the Polish town of Lukov and several hundred in Kalushin.
On the pretext that someone had shot from a window at passing German soldiers, the advices said, all Jewish males in Lukov were ordered by the Nazi authorities to gather in the market place, where they were riddled with machine-gun bullets, 400 dying immediately. On a similar pretext, it was said, several hundred Jews were shot dead publicly in Kalushin.
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