Mellett SaVS: 111 . D'l . 11 I " DirKeridu iepun vunvinuny r-,. . Ai...J. Ti.l .X T 7XC fCC By LOWELL MELLETT WASHINGTON. Dec. 1 The War Refugee Board, Composed of the secretaries of state, war and treasury, made public last Sunday a report on the mass extermination by the Germans of Jewish men, women and children In prison camps at Birkenau and Auacbwltx in Southwestern. Pc-laiM. As compared with the 1,-500,000 persona declared by the Russian government to hava been killed In three -years at Lublin, this report estimates the number murdersd at ... Eirkenau ... between In relief and rescue work tn Europe for several years for the American Society of Friends. The document contains two reports, one made by two young Slovak Jews and one by 'a Polish major. The reporta were made Independently and without consultation between their authors. Both were delivered into Mr. McClelland's hands bv the representative of the Cxech government in Geneva, to whom they had come through underground channels. "While it Is of course im possible to directly vouch for act, the authors themselves saying they are no more than re-. liable approximations. But, in the opinion of Mr. McClelland, a precise statistical record "would not detract In any appreciable degree from the value of these reporta " McClelland cheokad Information in the reports concerning the dates and point or origin of convoys of Jews arriving at the camps, with Information possessed by reliable Jewish snd non-Jewish organizations in Switzer land regarding uie departure of April, ivm, ana Apru, jvi, v .' . , v.u.. ,u., nun countries. Some of the tn- 1,765.000. The horror of this story is so great that our minds instinctively recoil. We don't -want to believe. We don't want to think such things can happen. We remember too that many atrocity tales told during the last war turned out to be untrue. We don't want to be misled again. Sharing this feeling to some extent, despite all the evidence In its hands of a deliberate German policy of extermination, the War Refuge Board hesitated a long time before making the document public. The substance of the present information was received by cable in July. -The full text came by mail more than a month ago. Contains Two" Wepbrti"""" ' " Ths decision to give the Information to the American people resulted in part from the fact that it was sponsored by a special assistant to the American minister to Switzerland. Ro swell T. McClelland. Mr. McClellandr-Phil&delphtan. haa been engaged have every reason to believe that they are, unfortunately, a true picture of ths frightful happenings in these camps," Mr. McClelland wrote to the boatd. In connection with the report of the Slovaks, Mr. Clelland said, he had talked with a member of the Britlalava Papal Nunciature. Who' bad personally interviewed the young men and who declared the impression they created in telling their story waa thoroughly convincing. The young men were closely cross-examined, he said and the material that finally went ' into their report included only that about which there was no uncertainty in their minds or in the minds of their examiners. The Czechoslovakian representative vouched for the reliability of "the Poltiff triajor ana foTttte authenticity , of his report. Mr. McClelland himself corrected the translation from German Into English. pean countries. Some of the in' formation he was able to check by his own experience. He was in Southern France in August and September of 1942 and witnessed the deportation of large convoys of foreign Jews from four different internment camps, obtaining considerable first-hand Information concerning their numbers and the dates of their departures. The reports themselvea seem. computer? convincing to anyone who reads them. The mass of detail given is calculated to overcome any doubts. A limited number of copies of the 60-page report had been mimeographed and may be obtained by writing to the War Refugee Board In Washington! The purpose in making the report public Is to give the Amer-" tea n--peopte -soma -4rtndiig tot the serious nature of the refugee problem and to enlist support for the board's efforts to relieve a diabolical situation. A further The figures concerning the', purpose wilt be served if the re numbers of men and women ad- port helps drive nome me nrj-c-mitted -to in- two tsampa cannot ... aity to organize the world against be taken as mathematically ex- aggressive warfare.