1945-09-22 — Page 1

Vol. I, No. 11.

CHINA MAIL

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Saturday, September, 22nd, 1945.

BIG R.A.F. EXPANSION RANGE OF MODERN

SCHEME for COLONY

ALLIES

ATTACK KULTUR

BERLIN, SEPT. 21.

THE ALLIED CONTROL COMMISSION SITTING, UN- DER THE PRESIDENCY OF FIELD MARSHAL MONT- GOMERY. REACHED 1M- PORTANT DECISIONS ON

THE

BOMBER ATTACK®

Washington, Sept. 21. Liout. General Barney Giles,

commander of the United States Air Force in the Pacific Ocean areas, said here yesterday that the Super- fight from Tokyo

fortross'a THE

A VERY CONSIDERABLE EXPANSION OF THE ROYAL

AIR FORCE STRENGTH IN HONG KONG IN VERY NEAR FUTURE IS CONTEMPLATED. PLANS ENVISAGE THE CREATION OF A SUBSTAN- TIAL R.A.F. HEADQUARTERS BASE IN THE CO- LONY.

THIS WAS DISCLOSED YESTERDAY IN THE FIRST

PRESS INTERVIEW GIVEN BY THE NEW AIR OF FICER COMMANDING, AIR COMMODORE BROOK, WHO REVEALED THAT IN ADDITION TO THE 132 SPITFIRE SQUADRON LANDED FROM H. M. S. SMITER, IT IS PROPOSED TO BRING THE 209 (SUN. DERLAND FLYING BOAT) SQUADRON FROM CEY- LON, AND A TRANSPORT SQUADRON OF CAT'S TO BE EMPLOYED ON THE MAIN ROUTES BETWEEN HERE AND MALAYA.

Total strengtn

of

ground Commodore Brook said that the THE DEMILITARISATION staffs and air crews will pro-aim was to achieve representa- bably be of the order two to tive strength in the balance of three thousand officers and men, the garrison.

OF GERMANY TO-DAY.

one

all

It is understood that parades even remotely military will be banned; in character

will be permitted to wear war medals; all ex-service be organisations will men's abolished; and the German na- tional anthem "Deutschland Uber Alles" will be banned.

The Commission has relaxed the fraternisation restrictions and free social relationships are between the permitted

now

troops and Germana,"

Given favourable weather conditions, it is probable that) tha Spitfires will be zooming. over the Colony in formation]. In a day or two, promising a thrilling display by the very last word in offensive fighter

machines.

One feature of the new Spit-

14' in a ve-bladed Are peller.

BALANCED GARRISON

pro-

The Commission also repeal- Oullining the R.A.F. pro- ed 26 laws which formed the gramme for Hong Kok Air basis of the Nazl system, in-

fluding 12 racial laws.--- Reu-

ter.

NOMURA'S STORY

TOKYO, SEPT, 21.

Bigger And Better!

MARSHAL

NEED

IN

to Chicago had proved that the Superfortress was capable of carrying out atomic bomb- ing missions to Europe and

back-Reuter.

EVACUATION Policy Of Govt. Outlined

Price 10 cts.

HORROR FILM AT LUNEBERG

(By MacFco Kerr, Router's Special Correspondent in, Luneburg)

LUNEBURG, SEPT. 21. HORROR FILMS WERE SHOWN YESTERDAY IN THE CROWDED COURT ROOM IN BELSEN WHERE JOSEF KRAMER AND HIS 44 MALE AND FEMALE CAMP GUARDS ARE BEING TRIED ON CHARGES OF CAUSING DEATHS AND ILL-TREATING BEL SEN INMATES.

WHILE THREE BLUE LIGHTS THREW A GHASTLY GLOW OVER THE DOCK, FILMS THAT SHOCKEY THE WORLD WERE THROWN ON A SMALL SCREEN ON THE COURTROOM · WALL.

SOME OF THE SCENES SHOWN WERE SO HORRIBLE THAT THEY WERE DELETED FROM THE FILMS SHOWN TO THE PUBLIC SHORTLY AFTER THE CAMP WAS LIBERATE U.

blonde

Irma

Grese, the "Brutess of Belaen," who came

They would have the addl. THE EVACUATION PO-Into the Court wearing tional responsibility of es-LICY OF THE tablishing and coordinating the MENT WAS main trunk routes to Hong

GOVERN-smart skirt and powder blue AUSTRALIAN

DEFINED BY blouse sat bolt upright while

Kong, which would become the COL, H. OWEN HUGHES, AT the films were being shown her, ARRESTED

mal)

terminal point for the routes. Asked whether the mail routes referred to were for purely Ser- vice purposes, the Air Commodore that undoubtedly they would Baid also serve the civilian community pointed out that planes were already being

to

Be

1,500 aero-

features YESTERDAY'S

being almost MEETING her WITH MEMBERS OF THE corpse-like in the blue light.

The first part of the film which CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,

showed IN

the THE

FOLLOWING lasted 20 minutes TERMS:

general conditions at Bolson and the

featured second

part strongly accused. (1) Government adviste every British subject

Pictures of people fishing to return to his country of water out of pools of slimne were

quickly un

the

screen. Mont possible flasled

pits.

on

a plough to

ACCUSED IMMOBILE

the After

film had

the

for

The

like

the

Tokyo, Sept. 21. John Holland, an Aux- tralion, has been detained by the American military authorities. He is alleged to have broadcast from stations

Tokyo and Shanghai. Reuter.

in

WAR CRIMES TRIAL

Melbourne, Sept. 21. The Australian Government

convey repatriates from Hong origin as Kong to Ceylon for rehabilita under the present evacuation sickening of all was the shot of tlon before proceeding to Eng-facilities; (2) if an individual a man with a handkerchief over land, and it was his intention has strong reason for wishing his nose driving a bull-dozer into to see that all suitable aircraft to defer his departure and de-a rotting pile of corpses. was driven leaving here carry their quota ferment is approved, such de- tangled mass. as long as it is

neccessary. Sunderlands would do most of ferment to the end of 1945 will show before

burying-plt. the work. They could carry be

not prejudice his claim to pas tween 15 and 20 persona.

sage from and to the Colony Kramer and his fellow accused KAI TAK FACILITIES under the repatriation scheme remained immobile during the Discussing the facilities at Kui provided that they are accepted film, even when they themselves has requested that all Japanese The commandants and camp guards Tak, he said that the Japanese when allocated. Facilities for were shown on the screen,

in charge of camps BERLINA MONTGOMER aferably roved the airport con- rehabilitation in the countrythm showed, in macabre, detail in thich

building concrete of origin may, however, be no the burial of Belsen victims in in which Australia were con SAID YESTERDAY: "WE NOW runways approximately

fined be detained for the tinie longer then available or may the length, but

been being- ENGLAND A yards in ADMIRAL NOMURA, WHO STRONG ESTABLISHMENT drone was still not suitable, with be available only on a restrict- WAS JAPANESE AMBASSA-DEVOTED TO RESEARCH AND any margin of safety for the ed. scale. DOR IN WASHINGTON AT EXPERIMENT IN ALL TYPES giant four engined machines now THE TIME OF PEARL HAR-OF ARMOURED

in service with the R.A.F.

One Halifax did come BOUR, TALKED TO-DAY.

He wald he knew nothing

yesterday, with supplies spares, but in general, Kai Tak about

at Lazak any impending

a difficult proposition for the larger aircraft, and was likely to be limited, for practical purposes, to smaller craft of the Dakota (C47) type. Final plans have

been approved, but it is possible that to the squadrons in addition already referred to, Hong Kong may have one or two additional ing will

Fotor.) squadrons before very long.

VEHICLES.

FIGHTING!

"We must ensure that we keep in the forefront in armoured fight-

when currying ch his talking vehicles,"

with Mr. Cordell Hull.

He spoke during an inspection of the Royal Tank Regiment of He played Army and Navy which he is Colonel-Commandant, cliques for the aggression, de-in Berlin. Field Marshal Mont- claring that they acted against | gomery said that the Royal Tank the wishes of the Emperor, Regiment had already started on He said further, in reference the research work and that it must to the China campaign, that the continue to play a lending role in whole thing was a failure.

its organisation and development. -Reuter. The Army went beyond it- self. They ought to have con- fined themselves to their own province and kept out of poli ties. Reuter.

Ready For The Next!

Washington, Sopt. 21.

HOME ARMY DEMOBBED

TOKYO, SEPT. 21. GENERAL DOUGLAS MAC- ARTHUR HAS ANNOUNCED THAT THREE-QUARTERS OF THE JAPANESE HOME ARMY

HAS BEEN DEMO- BILISED.

It consisted af.

2,250,000

it was revealed to-day that, the American War Department men, and the remainder are be- is to pursue

further researching discharged at the rate of into the atomle bomb, and also 60,000 daily. into means of combating__the use of atomic energy.

Army plans also envisage reached schemes for the swift mobilisa-end of the year.

tion of industry for war pur- poses and the creation of more afficient Intelligence Service. Reuter.

JAP. GESTAPO

CAUGHT

He also revealed that, the cecupation force total will have 400,000 men

by the Reuter.

U.S. AIR FORCE

PROGRAMME

Was

not

had

seemed

shown, Kramer took lengthy The legal question whether notes. What they had seen such persons can be charged in obviously (3) During the period of ap-

a disquieting proved

ellect on

the women aceused Australia is under study, but deferment, arrange-

it in thought that Japanese intments

hind previously who will be made for sub-

war criminala will all Ve and sistence in the Colony probably

nonchalant. on a communal basis.

Irma Grese hurriedly wrote a charged at a special court at. note which she handed down to some central point in the PA- the oflcer defending her.

cific area. Reuter.

It is expected that for many months to come there will be a shortage of ships and there is no guarantee that return pas- sages will be available at a time convenient to individuale, (A full account of the meet

be found in Page

TANKS TO PROTECT DICTATORSHIP

BUENOS AIRES, SEPT. 21. MOUNTED POLICE, REINFORCED BY THREE · TANKS, GUARDED GOVERNMENT HOUSE HERE YESTER- DAY WHILE A CROWD,' ESTIMATED/ AT · HALF-A- MILLION PEOPLE SURGED THROUGH THE STREETS IN A MONSTER “LIBERTY MARCH,” ORGANISED AS A PROTEST AGAINST · "HUMILIATING ·DICTA- : TORSHIP."

EARLIER, THERE HAD BEEN A SERIOUS STOPPAGE-

OF PUBLIC · TRANSPORT WHICH, IT IS THOUGHT, WAS AN ATTEMPT TO PREVENT. THE PEOPLE FROM THE · OUTLYING DISTRICTS FROM ATTEND- ING THE DEMONSTRATIONS.

NO EXCUSE The films were shown after the British major, Adolphus Berhey,: who had succeeded Kramer as

testified that there was no excuse

EDINBURGH JIBS

commandant of the camp had

London, Sept. 21. for the Germans for not provid- the Fuel Controller to reduce Edinburgh has been asked by ing ample food for the inmates. Major Berney, who had trans- street lighting still further,. ferred Belsen from a hell-hole to but has declined.

a holiday centre for displaced A meeting of the City Coun- persons, said that the medical cil to-day

the decided that supplies found in the camp were crime wave in the Scottish so ample that they had not yet capital could not permit of fur- been exhausted.

In an atmosphere of depression-ther dimming of lights. Edin- which followed the showing of the burgh would seek to save fuel

the first civilian witness in other ways—Router.

film,

Russian

a schoolmaster from the Channel Islands who now lives in Sussex -told of bis

arrest by the Gestapo with 17 other members of his family for helping

The officer to escape. only

language at Belsen was the language of blows, he declared.

Describing the first night in a hut in camp, Ledrullenne said it was Babel gone mad. Sleep was absolutely impossible..

LONDON TRAGEDY.

London, Sept.- 21. `· There was excitement among shoppers in Regent Street to~ day when a woman was seen precariously balanced at the edge of the roof of one of the buildings.

We were aroused at half past She paid no attention to cries three in the morning by blows from the street to get back, and-seven or eight dead wore and fell or jumped. She whe taken out and put in a trench killed instantly. --- Reuter. which ran the length of the hut." A NIGHTMARE

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SCIENCE'S PLACE

London, Sept. 21. A White Paper issued to-day* reveals · Government's intention time, money

the internees to devote more

A proclamation, distributed, because it will always be on amongst the crowd, said: "We the side of public opinion," he As if recounting.a. past night-| must immediately get rid of said. The crowd then shout mare, Ledrullenac sometimes shat Describing the United States the dictatorship which has ed demands to "throw out his eyes and shuddered as he Army Air Force plans in the humiliated and offended us. Peron" to which the General described his experiences. Pacific, General Giled said that it we want, we need and we de- replied "in due course.”

“I should think in the first four days was proposed to maintain ond

I had altogether que the Constitution complete air force each in the mand that

PERON'S STATEMENT - pint of SINGAPORE, SEPT. 21, Philippines, the Marianas and shall be observed and liberty

On the previous night Col. Describ BRITISHI --AND INDIAN Ryukus and some ten groups in reign. We Invoke our rights Juan Domina Peron, vice-pre- were 'compelled drag corpses TROOPS, IN A SUDDEN Japan itself, totalling 1,000 planes. and fulfil our duty."

sident of Argentine and Minis to the burial pits by strips of and attention to scientific re-

search; SWOOP, HAVE CAPTURED Asked bow long, the occupying

and discarded_clothing RAWSON APPLAUDED ter for. War, stated in a broad-

the dead, tied to the wrists

A scientific branch is to be. THE ENTIRE H.Q. STAFF force would be needed in Japan, OF THE JAPANESE GES- About 100 years.Reuter.

General Giles, replied quickly, Loud speakers broadcast cast that "a demonstration and ankles of the boulos, Ladrill-Bet up in which the higher slogans such as "Nazis of yes may be manoeuvred and pre- cane said "people died at the levels of pay will be about 2,500 TAPO IN KUALA LUMPUR.

terday cannot be the democrats pared by obscure forces in an wayside going to the pits. They pounds sterling, and there will endeavour to overthrow the did not even have the energy to be three or four posts at three Itawson, one of the leaders of government."

drog the

lightest of bodies. Any thousand pounds a year. the 1943 Argentine revolution As the procession passed man who faltered was hit on the Reuter.

head. I who established the short-lived Peron's War Ministry, the

was struck myself many timen. orderlies was to get on with the

Among those arrested is

་

Major Hirata, for whom the H.M.S. HOWE BOUND

British military authorities have been looking..

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They have been placed in an open enclosure under afronx guard. Reuter,

FOR FAR EAST

Capetown,

town, Bop 21-H.M.S Howe (recently revealed to be of forty-five thousand tons displace ment) left here today for Kilin PILOTS NOW PORTERS"

dini, port for Mombasa, Kenya, London, Sept. 21, on her way to castorn, waters. Two Canadian pilota, nwait-

Sho will "show

dog

in coun ing demobilisation; to-day

formerly overrun by the” offered their services to a Lon-Japanese and will adolat in the don hospital and were accepted. She will probably be returning to repatriation of displaced persons. They will act as porters Britain some time next "YOST."-- Router.

triep

Reuter.

today." "General Arture

government, succeeding that of demonstrators shouted and The attitude of the 8.8 and the DOIHARA IN Prealdent Castillo, appeared on boced. Matches were special the balcony of his home and ly written for the occasion and lob as quickly as possible, so du CUSTODY was given a tumultotis recepthese were distributed to clean up the camp before thic tion as the crowds passed. The names of both Peron British arrived, Reuter

Tokyo Bopt. 21 Polish woman doctor, giving Pressed by the crowd to and General Edimira Farrelleno, told how she was taken General Kenchi, Dolliárd, who apealt, he said that he was the president, figured in one from Auchawits to Helsen. In Japanese Invasion of Man- was principally behind the moved by this act of domo-song which could be translated tears she told how of 5,000 pax-churia in 1981, and was given cratic affection which sym Peron and Farrell, they must cons, 4.000 were sent to the ran the qoubriquet "the Japanese bolised the concept of bu disappear that they lack the chambes including her maker Lawrence, has been placed man liberty,

people's confidence in abun her brother and her six year old "Task you to cheer the army dantly clear Router.

Ban-Reuter.

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under arrest-Router.