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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1949,
British Lawyer Speaks For German Marshal
Hamburg, October 5.
The British defence counsel for 62-year-old Field Marshal Erich, von Manstein, former German Army commander in South Russia who faces 17 war crimes charges, declared in court here today:
"The conduct of Field Marshals von Monstein
and von Rundstedt was immaculate."
DUTCH RETURN TO SUMATRA
Batavia, October 5.
Was
"Upon all the available evi- dence the German Army behaved weil during the Polish campaign," counsel added
(Von Rundstedt, who was voo Manstein's superior in the 1940 ePalisk campaign, was reported by the British-sponsored paper, "Die Welt," in August to have declar ed that he was personally res- ponsible for the actions alleged to have been committed by von
Manstein
Albania Accuses Greece
Lake Success, October 6. Mr. Trygve Lie, Secretary. General of the United Nations and, a member of the UN Conciliation Commission, an- nounced today that Albania had accused. Greece of con tinuing it aggressive policy #gainer the Integrity sovereignty of Albania "and committing sever new bor- der provocations.
and
The announcement was made in the Political Com mitice. The complaint has "been sent to the United Na tions Special Committee on the Balkans--Reuter.
SHARP QUAKE IN JAPAN
EFFORTS TO SETTLE THE BALKAN CRISIS
Lake Success, October 5.
-The United Nations Conciliation Commission has made a good beginning in its efforts to set- tle differences between Greece and her Nor- thern neighbours.
The Commission's Canadian chairman, Mr. Lester Pearson, told the United Nations Political Committee there today.
Other members of the Com~ | Domesthenes had been found mission are the President of the guilty by a Court Martial and un- Assembly, General Carios Roanimously sentenced to death on mulo, the Secretary-General, Mr. | September 23. Trygve Lie, and the Political The sentence was carried out Committee's Vice-Chairman, Mr. before the promulgation of de- Seton Samper.
mency measures mentioned before the Political Committee by the Greek delegate on September 29.
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to
Mr. Pearson was replying to demands of the Eastern European group for information about their allegation that the Greek Govern- ment had broken a promise suspend all executions of guerillasý Tokyo, October 6.
and had Most of Eastern Japan wasthenes, a trade union leader.
shot Georgiu Domes- aroused by a minute-long earth-
2.1. today--the Mr. Pearson said that the Con- (Von Rundstedt has been de-quake at 7 clared medically unft to
stand sharpest in several weeks. No Leiliation group had been taking its
damage was reported.
work seriously. The
Central
It had raet members of the Meteorological Observatory said light
Greek delegation as well as reptes States and Russia and hoped to Japan
see representatives of the other Governments involved shortly,
"We must all hope that that work will end successfully and that nothing will be done to pre- judire that success," he said.
Mr. Pearson said that the Greek delegation had reported that AE
tremors
NEHRU'S APPEAL TO INDIA
New Delhi, October 5: Pandil Nehru, Indian Prime Minister, last night appealed to the Indian people to "tighten your belts and make India self-suf-
ficient in food' grains by next instead of the year after as originally planned" Speaking in a sage on the eve of his departure broadcast mes-
for America and the UN, Fandit Nehru said: "The jolt of devalus- Mtion must remove the spilt &
complacency in us.”
The Polish delegats, Mr Julius Katz-Suchy, declared that Domesthenes had been shot 12 hours after the Greek delegate's štatamantinho tea
**Terror"
India's annual deficiency in food grains needs is about 10 per ·
This years she plans to import 4,000,000 pounds.
cent
He also alleged that there were four more cases of people being shot despite the Greek Govern people to eat less rice and more Pandit Kehra appealed to the ment's promise.
wheat since rice imports are cost- Mr. Katz-Suchy moved that the lier, and it is impossible to pro- debate on the Greek question beduce manure composites in every
but he was defeated by village
since foreign fertilizers 34 votes to six
transporti aleging his complicity in the shook Eastern and North Easter | sentatives of-Britain, the United | re-open with 14 abstentions. are costlier as a result of devalua-
links
Dutch officials have penetrated | trial for war crimes).
Von Manstein's counsel, Mr. R. into the Republican stronghold | region of Northern Sumatra in T. Paget, referring to the charges an effort to establish and communication
be Polish campaign, said of the two tween this isolated region. and Field *Marshals: When any the rest of Indonesia.
offence against the civilian po- The fact-finding trip into the pulation or Polish prisoners came Atjeh country
arranged to their notice they took imme- through the United Nations Comdiate action." mission for Indonesia and made: with Republican oficials from Java. It is the first time that the Dutch have set foot in this self- sufficient territory since Japanese troops capitulated there to the Indonesians at the end of the Pacific war.
The people in the region car-l ried on by slipping through Dutch naval patrols in small sailing boats to trade in' rubber other products with Malaya and Singapore.
and
The Netherlands delegation to UNCI announced that the Dutch will help to fit out the Republican Army they were fighting two months ago with uniformS and other supplies.
The delegation said
that a barter arrangement has been worked out for trade with arcas of Sumatra under
Letter From Professor
Mr. Paget said that he had re- ceived letter from a very dis- tinguished Polish professor who had been a close associate of Mar- shal Pilsudski, the former Polish Premier and Commander-in- Chief.
Though the professor "was in his eighties, he wished to come to Hamburg to
speak for the German Army, which he said did much to protect the Polish Jewish population from the rapacity of the Brutality and
civilian population.
Mr. Paget quoted the case of an officer, a director of music in the SS who had ordered the hooting of 50 Polish Jews. This man was arrested by General von Reichenau, who asked Army
instruction that
Group Headquarters whether
Republican there was any control other than the Atjch Jews should be shot
region and a few small islands) of the Sumatra coast.
Another scheme to do away with trade barriers should lead to better distribution of supplies to all areas in Java and Sumatra, the delegation saidAssociated Press.
Housing Problem Surveyed
Geneva, October 6.
Only a "radical change in Gov-
The Headquarters in which von Manstein was Chief of Staff replied that there was no such order and instructed that the SS officer should be court-martialled
Though 562,000 Polish soldiers were taken prisoner, only five in- cidents of atrocities against pri- soners were mentioned by the Frosecution, he said.
"It Staff Officers are to be held responsible for the isolated actions of soldiers, the risks of the mill- tary profession are very much greater than the Court has pre- viously believed.
Hitler Order
"A general cannot be held res ponsible for the criminal acts done by his subordinates.
Mr. Paget said that in Russia
erment policies and a revolu- the prevailing law was that the tion" in building can solve whole population must take part Europe's housing problem within the next 20 years, the United in the war. When Hitler issued Nations Economie Commission for orders (urging ruthlessness and his Barbarossa and Kommissar Europe said tonight
the shooting of political commis- sars), he knew quite well that
Countries surveyed in a 204- page report were Austria, Bel- the Russians would Eight without gium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark,
regard to laws and the Russian Finland, France. Greece, Hung gary, Eire, Italy, Luxembourg, hilation battalions had be
trained in illegal methods. Switzerland and Britain. Holland, Norway, Poland, Sweden,
warfare.
O'
Hitler knew this better than The report said that even it
Manstein. A Commander- the pre-war rate of house con- von struction were to be doubled it in-Chief was not informed would take 22 years to meet hous such things, as he had to keep his ing needs.
mind clear for military opera- tions.
Or Russia, the largest country not covered by the report, the
After the Court had adjourned,
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