THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1946.
SECRET RAEDER PAPERS
How British Skill Broke Nazi Spirit R.A.F. Mission
And Hitler Flew Into Tantrums
NUERNBERG, APRIL 23.
Nazis Go Back On Confession
Leopold Trauner, aged 03 and oldest of the accused mid that the figure attributed to him of 3.500 prisoners being killed when he was supervisor should have been "ve, or six".
For Far East
London, Apr. 23.
Franciscan Monk Tried For Treason
Malta, Apr. 28. Describing himself as a monk. of the order of Franciscan A special R.A.F. Mission to Friare, Paul Ignatiun Chetcuti ng Far East, which is to make appeared in court here yesterday a detailed investigation of Japs with sight other Maltese charg- anese navigational methods and】ed with high treason through equipment, is expected to leave service in the Italian armed England tomorrow in a Lancas- forces. ter aircraft.
The accused had all been The mission consists of mem-brought to Malta from Italy.
Chetcuti appeared in civilian bers of the Empire Navigation
is led by Wing-clothes. School, and Commandor Dunnicliffe, who' A statement was said to have piloted a Lancaster Aries on the been made by Chetcuti to. Mai- recent record-making flight totere police investigators who in- terrogated him at an Italian South Africa.
monastery and he disclosed that he had served with the Italian forces as a chaplain,
They will fly via Lyddn, Karachi, Delhi, Burma, Ceylon Malay States and Singapore and go to Canton and Tokyo.--- Reuter
IN THE WINTRY TWILIGHT OFF THE NORTHERN.
Dachau, Apr. 23, MOST TIP OF NORWAY, BRITISH NAVAL GUNS
Confessions said to have been -made by two of the 60 members THUNDERED THE DEATH KNELL OF THE GERMAN,
LAST
SECRET FLEET ON THE
DAY OF 1942.
of the Mauthausen camp staff, charged ERICH
before PAPERS LEFT BEHIND
the United BY GRAND ADM.
States Military Court for alleg RAEDER AT NAVAL HEADQUARTERS, AFTER HE
ed atrocities, were retracted at LOST HIS SUPREME COMMAND BECAUSE OF THE
today's hearing. NORTH CAPE FIASCO, HAVE SUPPLIED THE IN. SIDE STORY OF HOW BRITISH FIGHTING SKILL BROKE THE GERMAN SPIRIT. WITH TONNAGE AND FIRE POWER IN THEIR FAVOUR. OR AT ANY RATE, NO WORSE THAN EQUAL. TWO OF GERMANY'S FINEST CRUISERS THE HIPPER AND THE LUETZOW WERE ROUTED BY ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS ESCORTING A MERCHANT CONVOY
Canberra, Apr. 23. TO MURMANSK, WHEN HITLER PIEARD ABOUT IT,
The Duchess of Gloucester is HE FLEW INTO ONE OF HIS WORST TANTRUMS.
Heinrich Eisenhower, accused to undergo an operation for This is Raeler's own memor-† tainty at what odds might be S.S. man, said that there were appendicit: in (eester House andam of a one-and-half hour faced and other considerations. books in his department show- Hospital next Sunday, it was
of bad weather, days after
announced uncer-ing credits to prisoners in three officially tongue lashing six the defeat, which the Fuehrer's the Luetzow withdrew without banks of more than 3,000,000 | Beater. communique had attempted to inflicting damage. disguise as a triumph:
"The Fuehrer Haid the navy had no meaning in the wnes of 1864, 1866 and 1870. The role of the German High Sean Fleet in the fire world. war had no meaning, 11 Incked men who world commit it to netion, even without agreement from the Kaiser. It sapped aereat deal of fighting strength while the army had continuously heavy fighting.
The revolution and scuttling at Scapa Flow were no page of glory for the navy.
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cause
Willy Ecbert, camp laundry- man, said that his written state- ment made to the Court last
work was, "a tissue of lies from beginning to end".
marks taken from prisoners on The report frankly admitted their arrival at Mauthausen. that German gunners were rank There were also 27,000 en- amateurs at fighting under velopes containing prisoners' Arctic conditions and one Bri-jewellery and other valuables, - - Cish cruiser slipped in danger-Renter." nusly close to the German war- ships, because they mistook it for the Hipper changing course,
Having granted that Germun sailors were outgamed as well as outfought. Raeder east enu- tion away and verbally defied the Fuehrer's general charge of cowardice against big ships.
Food Truth
For Germans
A million
OPERATION ON DUCHESS
The Maltese renegade leader, exprofessor Carlo Mallia, had asked for spiritual assistance for the "Maltese- action" movement. same members of which joined the Italian forces, the alleged | statement continued.
On referring the matter to his religious superiors, he was in- structed to serve as a chaplain. today. Chetcuti was alleged to have
Indded. Asporinted Presa.
Arbitration In India
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(By FRASER WIGHTON)
New Delhi, April 23.
The conviction that the Indian Congress Party would be will- ing to accept international arbitration in a settlement of the present constitutional problem was expressed tonight by Sardar Vallabhai Patel, one of the most powerful political figures in India and a member of the Congress Working Committee. Referring to the question of international arbitration, Mr: Patel declared that there could be no better solution than this, but added the warning "of any solution is imposed, or decision taken, by the British Cabinet Mission which is inacceptable to the Indian parties, there can be no withdrawal of British power, because it will have to stay, in India in order to impose its weight a situation that would not be tenable for any length of time."
Hamburg, Apr. 23. Raeder asserted that fier
The German people will to- himself, after the loss of the night be told the truth about the Heavy Ships Renounced battleship Bismarck in 1911 food situation in a Control "The ony has always allow had ordered the fleet to avoid Commission statement broadcast. ed its numerical relationship to possible further losses--an or over the Hamburg Radia to kill enemy forces to be a great fate that terminated surfare rumours that the Occupation an- tor-but nut so with the army.op.ations 12 th Atlantic.
thorities are living off the "The Fuehrer as a land Rol-
Brought Defcat
country and exporting food.. dier demanded that if the der Racer chimed that the pro- They will hear that all food command was for Germans, with exception o man forces got into netion the fessional naval
the small setion should be fought through.reluctant to comply with
amount of perishable "Large ships should not be Fuehrer's
especially foodstuff wishes.
for hospitals, has tied up montha long in the hur-when it meant restricting at been imported, and that 93 per bour without objectives, strong tacks against the British sup- cent of food for displaced per- luftwaffe forces are thereby ply line to Russia via Murmansk. sons has been imported.
de- "These orders brought tied up for their protection.
tons of foodstuff "If it comes to a Norweginfeat," he wrote; "these limita- has been brought into the Bri I expressed to Mr. Patel the fare working smoothly and Innding it is better that th Lions kept commanders from tish Zone since the middle of feeling of disappointment that harmoniously, there will be no Luftwaffe should attack
When we June. the fulfilling their tasks.
The statement will add there is still no sign of a meet serious trouble in the country landing forces than protect our inent surface ahips the that cool exports from the Ruhring between the Congress Party and a settlement of the Com- own fleel.
North Sea, they were command=" are not reparations, but used to leaders and those of the Moslem munal issue will come automati- "The war until now has been to avoid loss, because
pay for imported food, the cost League.
cally," loss of prestige. carried on by light sen farces.would cause
He answered that of which is far in excess of the
the Con-
Scare-Mongering The small have protected the "Now the Fuehrer himself value of the coal-Reuter gress position had been clear all big. Not the big protected the has said this kind of committal
along, and that there could be can never lead to success. Only
no settlement of the Communal small.
the spirit of attack should be
question until British power the basis of decision. That this!
was withdrawn from India. spirit is not asleep is shown by many statements of unit and group commanders. I hope thi ships of the fleet will be giver
take adv un opportunity to
"If the Fuehrer renounces heavy ships it is not a dezraela- tion but parallel to what hap pened to the cavalry in the army. "The Fuehrer mentioned that Stalin's navy was transferring battleship crews to destroyers.
"The Fuehrer has ordered the crew from the Gneisenau to be available for general disposition, because the Gneisenau had not been scheduled to be ready for aca until the end of 1944,"
Humiliating Treatment
The Fuehrer's
into
it
sea,
Poisoning Deliberate
to
I asked him how he envisaged setting up the constituent as sembly to frame the constitu- tien for an independent India. "The Congreso position has al- ways been to form a constitu- ent assembly on the basis of adult franchise, but that proce dure is now out of the question, because it will involva enormous delay," he answered
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"If the delegation wants to transfer power and is preparing for withdrawal by trying to Nuremberg, Apr. 28.
bring about a settlement between Evidence of deliberate poison- the two parties," he asserted.." inge of the situation at the ing has been found at a stalag is bound to fall in its efforts." mindful of destroying
the 13 miles from Nuremberg, The strong lines of his face re
"Therefore, the constitucut enemy. to come upon
where, it was announced last taxed slightly as he added that assembly should be formed. enemy.
present elected re- answer was week, 1.900 German prisoners-the mission in that event would from the twofold: He gave Raeder's job of-war had been taken seriously still have the goodwill and food presentatives in the provinces wishes of Congress for its har- by fixing a percentage." He de to submarine specialist Doenitz ill from poisoning.
reach Four bottles of arsenic and two vest endeavours
plored what he described "scare-mongering and bysteri- A week after his humiliating and confirmed the immobilien-
If a just and peaceful solu cal reports" suggesting the im- of a German Raeder dispatchedtion of German big ships for the empty bottles have been found aettlement. treatment
duration of the war-Associat-under the floor
tion would be helped by sub-minence of disorder in India. two letters to the Fuchrer.
bakery. ed Press.
The prisoners were reported mitting the question to inter- They could be dismissed a last Friday to have been taken national arbitration, Mr. Patel simply mischievous and without ill after eating brend, which felt that the Congress Party any real basis, he said.
There will be a Special Cash Sweep on the fast race, He was niso critical of the early investigation showed con-would be ready to do this. He tained arsenic.
said the alternative was for the reports necribing Insincerity to tickets for which ($2) may be obtained at the Office of the In accordance with normal British to hand over power to the British Cabinet Mission. Hong Kong Jockey Club, Exchange Building, First Floor,
elected was obtained the
representatives, procedure, bread
"Congress trusta the delega- together with the usual "Through" numbers ($10) Including 2 from a local German bakery either of the Congress Party or tion to give a fair deal to In- chance in the Special Sween.
The Moslem Longue. "If you dia," he declared. "It has come contract-Reuter.
did that," he said, "the country with that deliberate would settle the question in na
pressed purpose. time."
One was a formal recommen- dation that either Adm. Rolf
Carls or Adm. Karl Danitz Harriman Calls
WUN
the
suited to take over command which Raeder was re- signing.
Raeder, faithful to the Bur- fuce fleet, left no doubt that he would like to see the command go to Adm. Carls, "because of his personality, experience in leadership of operations many other functions, such as ship design."
rand
For Cooperation and
London, Apr. 23.
f
W. Averell Harriman, the new United States Ambassador
FORMOSANS LEAVE to Britain, yesterday called for Anglo-American coopération but not in conflict with other na- tions.
and ex-
"I expect that most of the major questions will be solved by the middle of May, if not by the end of April," he added. Still Cap
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SINGAPORE
Trouble Expected Singapore, Apr. 23. "By constitutional means?" I
There are a limited numbor of Boxes available upon But he conceded that Doenitz's
Speaking at, a press con- About 3,000 Formosans and asked. "It cannot be by con- appointment would omphasize that the "U-bont war hins special ference on his arrival to succeed Koreans, including 365 women stitutional meats," he replied,
application to the Clerk of the Course, Lt. Col. J. H. Pulsar, the retiring John G. Winant and children are leaving Singa- adding that although there importance for a war decision"
The numbers of the British M.B.E, H.Q. Land Forces. (Telephone No. 84121-Ex, 26). Harriman, former Ambassador
may give a and reminded Hitler that Raed to Russ, declared: "It seems to pore for home tomorrow aboard might be trouble for some time
if power were transferred Cabinet Mission er himself had given Doenitz
It is understood here that one party, the other party would direct ruling to bridge the gap
Ho "three powerful promotiona in me that Britain and the United a Japanese cargo vessel.
repeated between the Congress Party and States are destined to play that
more Formosans and Koreans come to terms.
there might from that
Muslim League on India's con- be some The accond letter was a resort of role and work together are expected to arrivo
stitutionnt future when they ro- and will be trouble, port likely to be regarded na ofin mutual interest, in no sense
turn from their Easter 'rest in Jasting algnificance by of exclusive association but to Sumatru shortly
naval
gether with other nations." kept in camps here until ship "Do you mean civil war?”
plug is available to repatriate asked, "No," he replied "just the Himalayan state of Kashmir. historians.
Associated Press.
a little disturbances hero and Hopes that Congress and Mus- them.-Reuter
there. You are bound to get lim representatives might meet that: In big country:” Ho to discuss possible reconciliation agreed that the most urgent ou the question of Pakistan (de- separate Muslim tank on hand was the formation mand for a
this war."
In detail it confessed German mistakes and British superiority
in the North Sea battle saying; British Success
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·R.A.F. TO SURVEY WEST AFRICA
Accra, Apr, 23.
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1
ANDERS RUMOUR
DENIED
of an interim government. Stato) have not yot materialls- "A tactical success was doubt. less gained by the enemy. He Royal Air Force planes will
Rome, Apr. 28. "The Mission should do that ed.
It is thought that tho Cabinet brought through a convoy un-make a survey from an altitude. In reply to inquiries concern without consulting either Con- damaged and, of the attacking of about 15,000 foot over 146 ing roports of the death of the press or the Muslim League," delegates may call a joint meet- German
hend- ho nald. "They should ask the ing with Indian leaders and sub- units, wo Hank one 900 square miles of the British Polish genorol Anders, destroyer, the Friederigh Weat African colonies, it was quartern at Ancona said yester governments of the provinces to mit proposals for a settlement. Eckoldt, and a heavy cruiser, disclosed here today.
day that he was "perfectly all-elect their representatives-one-Itcutor.
from each of the 11 provinces the Hipper, was damaged. His The project Ja part of a ten-right."-Associated Press,
central loones according to an official year programma of n
and the remaining four or five
Daraaocus, Apr. 23. declaration of the British Ad-survey organisation established
provided perhaps by the minorl-
Gonoral Fagot, former Com- miralty
wore the destroyer by the Colonial Office and fin- The State Department an- ties."
He pointed out that the mandor-in-Chief of the Middle Achatee, aunk; the destroyer anced by the Colonial Develop nounced today that Russia has Onslow, damaged, and the mine ment anil Welfare Fund.
agreed to discuss mutual com- "Scheduled Castes" ("Untouch East, arrived today in Damas- aweeper, Bramblo, sunk,"
Four Lancasters have already mercial aviation problems simi- ablen") alone had 200 elected cus to take leave from The report stated that the started work and two more will far to those discussed at the representatives. "Once this pro Syrian Authorities in connexion Bermuda virional government in formed with the British troops with German cruiser Lustzow also take part in the survey at the British American
meeting. Associated Press. took part in the action, but bo-end of the month-outer
and the provinces' and centre'drawal from Syria-Bouter.
Washington, Apr. 29.
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