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London, March 4
Health Minister Aneurin Be var released to-day, town by tuwa and village by village, details of where houses are going up, Fo a supplementary statement in time
housing pagg (ess, Government's report of last week, his ministry of the Rives figures for each
1. separate housing authorities.
ir England and Wales
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The figmes da mat include building of war damaged haters by local authorities which affects particulak the Lotion Zounte Council area. Details For add acas show the position at Jav uary 31 last except for these ans thorities which sent in reports! Tra late. Theit details me of a month earlier.
The London Coupes Courvil had completed 1.577 temporavi homes and had 1985 undre or structions. In addition right d authorities had completed oven;
temporaries. They Birmingham 375, Westham 35300 Sunderland
Bristol 281,
453 Plymouth
230 Sheffiel
232 Norwich
217 and Tottenham
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DRAMATIC COURT SCENE Witness Identifies Accused's Wife Among Spectators, Says Gave Her $100.000
Sabotage?
London, Mar. 4.
A Scotland Yard spokesmu pi Het special branch officers have been ordered on the airrt to prevent any further uaba. tage of ships in British ports,
A tally showed fires broke out in 12 ship in porta within five
the necek, meluding 17,000-ton Empire Warency. --sanciated Press.
U.S. Army Officers Arrested
TOKYO, MAR. 4.
THE TOKYO CHIEF OF THE US ARMY'S CRIMINAL IN VESTIGATION DIVISION DIS
CLOSED TO-NIGHT THAT
in return
for
Dr. Atienza Tells
Of Tortures
AFTER.
THERE WAS A DRAMATIC MOMENT AT THE SUM.
MARY MILITARY COURT YESTERDAY NOON WHEN THE WIFE OF THE ACCUSED GEORGE WONG, CHARGED WITH HIGH TREA SON, WAS IDENTIFIED AS BEING PRESENT IN COURT BY ONE OF THE WITNESSES FOR THE PROSECUTION.
MR. M. A. DA SILVA, PROSECUTING. ASKED THE WITNESS, KHONG KJM-SIU. IF SHE WOULD STEP OUT OF THE WITNESS-BOX AND SEE IF SHE COULD FIND IN COURT THE WIFE OF AC- CUSED, TO WHOM, SHE HAD JUST STATED IN EPIDENCE, SHE HAD GIVEN / SUMI OF II.K.$1000,000 ON THE PROMISE THAT HER ÏIUS. BAND, WONG PUL, AN AMERICAN-CHINESE AV- THOR WHO HAD BEEN ARRESTED BY THE GEN- DARMERIE IN JUNE 1944. I'OULD BE RETURN. ED TO HIS HOME.
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Chungking, March 4. The Chinese Foreign Office to-day denied local newspaper reports that it had protested to Great Britain against the construction of the Pingsham aerodrome in the New Terri- torics at Hong Kong.-A880- clated Press,
Canada To Issue Report On Leakage
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Tokyo, March 4. S.C.A.P.'s legal section nounced to-dny that former Vice-Admiral Kogo Abe and been placed in Sugamo Prison as an accused war criminal al- ter admitting he ordered the beheading of eight American prisoners of war in the Mur shall Islands in the autumn of 1942
Abe was comminding nicer of the Sixth Base Unit during the early stages of the way and!
Batavia, March 4. First. formal discussions betulinen. Dr. Hubertus van' *Mook, Lieutenant-Güvernor- General of the Dutch East Indics, and members of the Indonesian Republican Ca- binet on the basis of the Dutch Government's pro- posals for the future Gov- ernment of Indonesia, may start in the latter part of this week, stated he Nether- lands News Agency here to- day-Reuter.
DEFENCE
the eight prisoners whose be.. DEBATE IN
heading brought his arrest had. been transported from Makin' Island to Kwajalein Island.
S.C.A.P. said that la trial will probably be held in the Marianas although definite plans had not been announced.
COMMONS
LON JON, MARCH 4,
A TWO-DAY DEBATE ON Thirteen Japanese, all of BRITAIN'S DEFENCE POLICY whom
are held in Sugaro in OPENING TO DAY WILL connection with prisoner of war BRING MR. ATTLEE
charges, will be released and re- THE FLOOR OF PARLAME
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turned to their former status, IN A DISCUSSION EXPECTED
There in S.C.A.P. said.
not TO
MBRACE BRITAIN'S sufficient evidence to warrant SHARE IN A UNITED
FORCE AND prosecution, the legal section TIONS POLICE
THE EFFECT OF THE ATOM said.-Associated Press.
BOMB DISCOVERIES ON THE MAKE-UP OF ARMIES
NAV
VIES.
drifting
AND
estimate of the
of its peacetime
Ottawa, March 4. The Ministry of Justice is Witness walked to the back my legs, then with a thick care planning to make public day
While I was being beaten of the court-room and scanned hit me.
ANOTHER TRIAL the faces of the spectators, the interpreter boxed me on the the numes of some public off-
Yokohama, March 4. Turning to near one of the sine face with his fist. This was car elals and others involved in
to Soviet agents}
Before the House of Commons was turning over ried on for 40 minutes.
Miyoroku Okada pleaded in will be the Government's White doors she excitedly pointed to
information about atomic re-i
nocent before the Eighth Army Paper on defence which announc FOUR AMERICAN
woman clad in a Chinese-style then taken back to my cell.
search and other secret data.
War Crimes Commission on ne- SEVEN AND
JAZE gown but with a foreign head. MANACLED AND FLOGGED
ed the indefinite continuation of Three or four days later was HAVE BEEN
dress who immediately ran from interrogated again. After I had TAKEN INTO
The Cabinet discussed the cusations of committing atroci conscription for the armed forces. LOUSTODY IN CONNECTION her in the direction of the
This factor is likely of the case lengthily on Saturday at ties against Allied war prison-,
to raise arala denied knowledge WITH AN ALLEGED HUGE
bench. magistrate's
Witness PRO Society 1 was told to strip which the decision was presumers including the death of a opposition from the Government'e BLACK MAN IN JAPAN- followed, scolding her in Chin myself. I was handcuffed with a ably approved.
sailor Doylew Waggoner. The back-bench supporters
many of ESE CURRENCY",
to peacetime ese, and the two had to be pole tied around my arm and
To-day's announcement in the prosecution said it will ask for whom are opposed
of men and political One million yen changed hands separated by Chief Detective suspended in the air. The Japa form of an interim report of the death penalty. - Associated
observers speculated there might jer American dollars; Inspector O'Donovan,
nese examiner beat me and the
be demands to cut by 500,000 the and two more deals, which would! Another witness heard yes interpreter burned me with his the two-num Royal Cominission; Press,
Government's torture probing the case is expected to The have brought the total to 13,000. terday was Dr. Vicente Nicules lighted cigarette.
scine make public The Spanish Government's re- nog yen were planned, said Capt. Atienza, who related how he had 2 minutes
of the PRANCO-SPANISH FRONTIER over!
evential size ! ply to the French olivial mutt. Michnet Frisch, C.F.D. chief.
After I was taken
down the charges on which 11 men and
Irun, Mar. 4. armed forces. been continually tortured for Japanese said if I did not tell two women have been held in-
The White Paper announced Bention of the closing of w
He revealed that the four Ariny several days after his arrest in them about the PRO they would communiendo
The day passed quietly on the that men under arms now number- The Spanish-French frontier 138 officers are
Canadian Franca-Spanish frontier. held in the army
the starve me for two weeks.
Four ing more than 4,000,000 will be been handed to the French Em-, stockade in Yokohama and that June, 1944, being given
press reported the names of
Dersons crossed into France, in cut to 1,000,000 by the end of water torture by two Japanese Gardner said that for the pex nine persons to be made public, cluding the United States Consul June and to a little over 1,000,000 the seven Japanese are confined
was given no fond. in Tokyo metropolitan police sta aud the accused in the bathroom six days to
нед
by the end of whose detention was an- meet an American tion. He said commanding officers, of his residence in Lock Road. He was then questioned and again ume of them being among the at San Sebastian, who went
diplomatic cinated Prem. courier-Associated Press. of the Americans would be noti- He was accused by the Japanee denied knowledge of the PRO
nounced.---Associated Press. fied for the purpose of bringing of having celebrated the news of eiety.
"As I was being interrozaled." them to trial and that the Japan- the opening of the Second Front ese probably will face an Ameri- in Europe with a party held in Gardner continued, "I was asked
court in Japan-Associated his flat,
if I had been at the Club Lusitano K the fall of Italy, I
'Yee. We were 80, Wong began. So Leung, fornter happy and we ha drink. There! Chinese detective, and Tšui Kwok-o
DO celebration. They told ching, former Crown Sergeant in
me: Don't you know that is not the Police Reserve, apeared be the right thing to do. Italy is fore Mr. Kwan on the treason our ally. I told them we were j charges on which they had been, handy because the war was oom- remanded.
bassy here.
Though the contents of the reply have not been divulged, it is understood that the Spanish Government considered the French step as unjustified but dnca w mention reprisals. Reuter.
can
l'ress.
Egypt Holds One-day General Strike
Hofare the proceedings against
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Mr. Smith was granted leave to ing to an end and that nobody liked the war. 1 was beaten un amend the charges.
concerned
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to
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DIVIDING UP
Shidehara Up Against THE SPOILS
Big Problem
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London, March 4,
Sir Stafford
Cripps, Frest........
Went of the Board of Trade told the House of Commons to- TOKYO, MAR. 4. day. that discussions were tak- THE NEWSPAPERS GREETED THE START OF THE ing place in Washington on the NEW ECONOMIC MEASURES WITH CONTINUED way in which surplus ray mat The
PESSIMISM AND TWO OF THEM PREDICTED erials from Japan should be reading of the amendments arain."
On occupied 25 minutes. They were sald, he
August 29. 1944, Gardner, CAIRO, MARCH 4.
was brought before a THAT SHIDEHARA'S CABINET WOULD FIND, equitably allocated among the
Allies. EGYPTIAN TROOPS IN FULL BATTLE DRESS minor alterations in the wording tenced to two years imprisonment.
almost entirely with anese Court Martial and sen- DIFFICULTY IN SURVIVING THE CURRENT
When a Labour Member asked GUARDED BRITISH ESTABLISHMENTS AND FOR-
PROBLEMS.
why it was intended to Import“ of the overt arts alleged against He Waa however released in EIGN-OWNED SHOPS TO-DAY AS A GENERAL the accused.
August 1945,
The "Asahl" said that street March. It cited the lack of re- into Britain Japanese silk, rayon and pay for STRIKE CALLED BY THE NATIONAL COMMIT- The accused were remanded to
Gardner Rald Wong was not corner business, usually flourish- pairs for mine cquipment us one and other goods
Sir Stafford Wednesday at 2.30 pan. TER OF LABOUR AND STUDENT POLITICAL
First witness called
present at the Interrogations or ing, was at a standstill yeater-factor demanding strong govern them in dollars, in the tortures, LEADERS VIRTUALLY PARALYZED THE CITY,
day as vendors awaited the final ment measures to insure maxi- said that the Government hoped charge against Wong yesterday WOMAN WITNESS
a funda that it would not be necessary JLL TRANSPORTATION HALTED AND MOST
Was Luiz Maria Ozorio Gardner. The next witness was Maria conversion of the present cur- mum output. Coal,
rency Into
"now" yen. Cafes mental necessity for produc- to pay United States Dollars for PLACES OF BUSINESS WERE CLOSED BY A 45. who is the 18th witness. He Fernanda Soares, 32. Portuguese and theatres, usually packed, tion which is essential for a hny imports from Japan-Keu- STRIKE CALLED IN OBServance of 4 DAY OF
said he was a British subject and subject.
Black-market steady supply of commodity ter. now lived as Observatory Villa, MOURNING FOR EGYPTIANS KILLED IN J
Mrs. Soarea said about 8 p.m. were half empty. Kimberley Road. In December. on November 12, 1943, Wong and stalls throughout the city were goods. SERIES OF ANTI-DRITISH, RIOTS KECENTLY,
that "Komiuri Hocht" said 1941 he
he was aules manager for
ព. Japanese arrested her at her closed and their supply of neces Far Eastern Motors.
encounter Cabinet would A Reuter's dispatch from
house in Victory Avenue, lomun- ties temporarily withheld from the Gardner
said that after the tin. Wong said she was required the market.
trouble in applying economic Alexandria reported that Japanese occupation he was not as a witnors. She was takon to crowds attempted to break no employed but did brokerage busl- Stanley and detained thera until continued increase of coal pro- Cabinet's life was also threaten-
The newspaper said that a measures. and added that the. a hotel used as a Royal Navy ness with Chinese friends. He March 2, 1944. hostel, and police dispersed them was a member of the Club Lusi-
was doubtful deepiteed by such problems as applica-
Stockholm, Mar. 4. Mr. Silva: Were you interrogat. duction
Abyssinia has asked with gunfire. A few casualties tans and regularly visited the
the Government's predictions of tion of the political purge to its 17-Yes.
substantial increase during members, and debated the ques- Swedish Authorities to help the (By Seaghan Maynes)
were reported. A strike on
at Club
(Continued on Pages 5 and 0)
tion of constitutional revision. Nuernberg, Mar. 4. nation-wide basis also was ae-
country to mobilike corps of The paper sald that the Gov- Swedish doctors, nurses,. Erncat Kaltenbrunner, Gesta- signed to reinforce demande for
ernment is attemping to hebble gineers, geologists and teacherg po leader accused of having or the evacuation of British troops
itself to conservative old-ne
to reconstruct it dered the removal of 18 Allied from Egyptian soil and for the
.on, modern politicians and ans "no political scientific lines. prisoners-of-war to the annihl-establishment of complete Middle Road, which he believed to
basis among the people."
Many have already been ap- All papers stressed that strict pointed and have left for the enforcement of
economie mea- Abyssinian capital of Addis sures is essential to prevent fur- Ababa-Reuter. ther financial ills among the people.Asacciated Presa..
Nuernberg Trial
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China To Ban Import Of Cosmetics?
CHUNGKING, MAR. 4. THE LIST OF PROHIBITED IMPORTS INTO CHINA HAS YET TO BE PUBLISHED, BUT IT IS GOING TO PROVIDE SOME PAD NEWS-FOR WOMEN IF REPORTS NOW IN-CIRCULATION IN CHUNG KING ARE CORRECT,
Abyssinia Asks For Aid
The
Syria
the
in-
About 9.30 pan. og November 3, 1943, Wong and another Chinese arrested him at his bome. He was driven by car to a house in he the lated section" of the Mauthucu Egyptian
gendarmerie headquarters, sovereignty over Then F. X. d'Almeda Remedies concentration camp, claimed be- Anglo-Egyptian Sudan."
Then and George Van fore the International Wor
Van Bergen arrived Strong Egyptian cavalry pa- and they were all taken to the Crime Court to-day that he lud trols were stationed near the Supreme Court. Next day he wa "intervened many times en be- British army's Kaar-el-Ni bu faken to Stanicy where he was half of Jewish
and other in-racks, the scene of some of the ket for a month before he was ternces."
NEW VERSION : worst disorders during the re-first interrogated.
Paris, Mar. 4. Kaltenbrunner, asked to name
TORTURE DESORIBED
Tokyo, Mar. 47
Office French Forelan witnesses, he wanted when the cent demonstrations.
Premier Ismalt Sidky Pasha, Mr. Silva; What was the ac
Baron Shidchara's Cabinet has announced to-day that France and casp for the defence of top Nazi
decided to draft an entirely now. Britain have agreed to withdraw leaders oports later this week, in a radio address Inst night, bugation against you!
Gardner: They told me I was named Dr. Karl Burckhardt of appealed to citizens to "remain a member of a aby ring which
version of the revised constitution, their trooms from Syria by April quiet and refrain from demon-was known as the "PRO" Society. the International Red Cress.
Those reports and thers Is "The Chinese Government le which will call for a more sub- 30. The joint withdrawal will be--
stantial change in the Emperor's Dr. Burckhardt, henit, atrations during the day of
Baid he was told that Garner
status, Kyodo News Agency sald gin on March 11, the Previously he had it he collaborated with his inter- good reason to give credenco to going just a bit too far."
today it had learned from a re-
added that the French-Britain: would prove his story that he mourning. had acted for the concentration announced he would take alepa rogators he would be treated like them are that the import of BATTLING MOOD
Dlamayed and discouraged, Wable source, Asociated Press muitars commission which nega to provant disturbances al- a pontleman and given a fair tais), cosmetics will be totally banned, camp inmates-Router.
Almost as bad, if not worse, but in battling. modd, most of
tiated the agreement now is study though he voiced his support of If he did not tell the truth, they
The blans for. evacuation of demands for evacuation of Drinationed certain forms of tor is the report that stockings are the American and other forelyn
RIAF STRIKERS RETURN.Lebanon-Associated Press. another item on the prohibited women in Chungking who heard tish troops. The Promier de Lures nied the request by strike lead- Mr. Silvar. You were sub list and that women coming into, the tragle report planned to de-
Ramzoon, "Mar". ers for permission to hold soquently tortured? Yes. The China may bring in only two acond on the shops and buy a.procession through the city, Kame, afternoon I was questioned pairs, one of which they must whatever they could of old Im-12 About 150 men of an Indian Air Rangoon to-day ported stocks of coameties and Force unitin A speed record of 9 hours 3 The British American Com- by Japanese examiner and a be wearing
"AR SEM called off their pine days old minutos between San Francisco miltee which is investigating me interrater. They ak There are long faces whorever stockings.
ed : bout the PRO Society,,
discuss these melancholy tidings pointment. A pair of nylons demandes which included of treatment With Bri Drening of nylon stockings and sells for the equivalent of $40
BonDeli and speedy Associated fail to fury of feminine, plque, Atand the pri
Fort one woman biterly put it: Prem.
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San Francisco. Mar. 4.
43
and Honolulu was established the Palestine Immigration pro- told them I had, nevor-henad: of Women "gather: "in" Chungking to They are in for more, disap-huncer strike as most of their
torday by the Pan-Americans Con- stallation Clipper, The 43-paton-blém meanwhile postponed – sta negaid "I knew of a bociety ger plane carried only ave saneen hearings, until tomorrow at named FRA (Portugudhee
sarvion on the route, bestina" on whom it had planned to hear. They forced med March 1828mociated Pres "Associated" "Preisā
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