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Vol. I, No. 63.

Thursday, November 22nd, 1945.

THUNDERBOLTS

GO INTO ACTION

BATAVIA, NOV. 21.

SIX THUNDERBOLT FIGHTER PLANES YESTEPDAY

ROMBED THE ROADWAYS INTO SEMARANG, WHET HAVE BEES BLOCKED BY INDONESIAN NATION ALISTS IT WAS THE FIRST AERIAL OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE CITY IN THE CURRENT STRIFE. INDONESIANS HEAD BAKICICADED THEMSELVES ACROSS THREE ROADS WHICH FORMED THE ONLY CONTACT BETWEEN TWO INDIAN FORCES WHICH WERE ATTEMPTING TO JOIN EACH OTHER AGAINST STIFF RESISTANCE

MUST TAKE

A LITTLE TIME

WASHINGTON, NOV 21 PRESIDENT TRUMAN, AT 1ts PRESS CONFERENCE TO DAY. EXPRESSED THE BELIEF THAT THERA WOULD BE PERMANENT PEACE IN THE WORLD. HE DECLARED THAT THE UNITED NATIONS WERE ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE GREATEST AGE

QP MAN KIND

The Wol.1 must magent peace and must ga the upper lanty offered 14. Kand The alternative was tal

extractio Jie made tatement when

was asked dommen on the tronelled are World offairs, partially 'hina. Java and Persin

Stenssing These for the establishment

the 20 posible

l throughout the world, the Pres adent aufmutted that is woud, Fake a little tree che avversit te nu exchange of Views.

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international troulder were due to the furt that mondd the countries were Conterntandang o argent:dumus tle problema, enflier than, a for

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were:

Don't Know War Is Over

Manila, Nov, 2:.

The Muuiu Chomete" reported to-dup three Milijang soldiers were killed and "Tun sounded when Japanese steng plers ambushed truck ma Bug The other Filipino aufdiera are missing.

An estimated 1,788) Jamirar- es are reported to still be the wild, muneníainuna arra of north central Patrola are continually work ing them. Associated Press

THE REAL QUESTION

given 90 minutes obre

The British officially express ed anxiety over the 14 2013 bemarang. A Crow 5 which threatened British Headquarters must be 0 sun! when i THE was sispersed with mortar fre NOT

tely a dal Indoneman | TRIES Capmulties in the distret asted at 50 killed, be worn bd and 150 captured

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British Headquarters sad th Semut ang bombinu w444 fut and resistance to ademen ground Torsese fell of Juubis

Tuolity presents were repart killer or worded in renew lighting in Batavi JAVANESE SHELLFIRE [111d Sourabuy. The Indeuresque stepped ap

The shellogg of Britsch Trains poet To und in Bandeng, Java wether capital, where Japanese are being used as polier, The situation was reported more

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NUERNBERG TRIAL

JAPANESE PLOT TO KILL STALIN IN 1940

NUERNBERG. NOV: 21: GERMANY'S FADED WARTIME LEADERS ENTERED PLEAS OF INNOCENT TO-DAY- TO CHARGES THAT THEY UNLEASHED THE BLOOD-BATH WHICH ENGULFED. THE WORLD, AND THEY HEARD U.S. CHIEF PROSECUTOR ROBERT. H. JACK- SON PROMISE THAT THEY WOULD BE CONVICTED BY THEIR OWN METICU- LOUSLY KEPT RECORDS,

IN OPENING THE AMERICAN CASE AGAINST THE 20 NAZI WARLORDS BEFORE AN INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL, JACKSON SAID THAT THE GER- MANS PLANNED AS FAR BACK AS 1940 TO ATTACK THE UNITED STATES. HE SAID NAZI RECORDS ALSO DISCLOSED THAT THE JAPANESE PLANNED TO ASSASSINATE SOVIET GEN- ERALISSIMO JOSEF STALIN IN 1940 THROUGH USE OF RUSSIAN TRAITORS.

CHINA'S BID TO SAVE MANCHURIA

CHƯNGKING NOV 21

CHINA IS MAKING ATTEMPTS TO OBTAIN AN UNDER. STANDING WITH RUSSIA WHICH WOULD AVERT THE GROWING DANGER OF MANCHURIA CÒMING UNDER THE DOMINATION OF THE CHINESE COM- MUNISTS AND HAVING SOME FORM OF “POPULAR SELF-RULE FORCED UPON 38,000,000 INHABIT. ANTS THERE,

THE CHANCES OF SUCCESS, HOWEVER, ARE BLEAK AS THE COMMUNISTS ARE STEADILY EXPANDING THEIR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE IN MANCHURIA AND ACCORDING TO THE LATEST ACCOUNTS HAVE SEIZED THE AIRFIELDS AT CHANGCHUN AND OTHER CITIES.

There is good reason to be f lieve China's appeal to Russia) for permission to hand National forces at Dairen and Port Ar. LONDON, NOV REAL, QUESTION is our has now met with at raltrond. They represent

FEW WHICH

ARE GOING NATIONALISED

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JACKSON DECLARED THAT THE ONLY HOPE FOR THE NAZU LEADERS COULD BE BASED UPON WHETHER INTERNATIONAL LAW IS SO LAGGARD AS TO BE PAR BEHIND MANKIND'S MORAL SENSE. Adolf Hitler's heuchten bad the main defence prop knockl from under them whea The Four-Power Tribunal abruptly: denied claims that they could, not be tried for war guilt under existing international law.

The one mighty and haughty Germans were ordered to step be. fore the bar containing judges the United States, Britain, France and Russia.

Reichinar-hal Hermann Goering announced: "I declare myself, in sense, Not Guilty."

Buitelf Hess, Dne Hitler's deputy, now fighting to escape in aple of insanity, shouted: "No!" Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence, presiding, and the reply would be entered as a plea of innocence.

Nazi Philosopher Alfred Rosen berg blended: "I declare myself in The sense of the indictment No! Guilty

One by one the others entered their pleas.

Justice Lawrence tightened the. trai rutes by ordering, in answer to a protest, that come not talk to defendants in court

Chinese press dispatches have placed Chiang Bai shok's Trompis at Manchuria with 36 miles inside their reported occupation of Sui

13 the Peiping Mukden Rt the refusal. INDUS

mest only a little nihhle of the There

no prospects of vast territory of Manchurin which HOW Chinese troops being transport in about

two and half tires the BOTH NATIONALISED AND fed by aru to Manchurin because size of Frontier. NON NATIONALISED INDUS n landing which endanger

Chinese press reports state that TRIES ARE TO OPERATE TO | American life will be undertaken General Chang Flash mun, kro MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY

ther of the "young Marshal" as American

Chang Rauch lang is in romowndexeep an written noller. of the communist forces in Man

LOWEST PITCH ehurt. If these reports are true Mr. Jackson. in a 20,000 word they would suggest that the Comstatement, wrted: "They have munists might have lister the subjected Their European support of some of Marshal #hangbours to every outrage and torture.

nigh such-liang's former mr Beast-every apoliation and deprivation | ern forces.

that insolence, cruelty and groed, rould inflict.

It the Opposition world let made clear. the Government would teobably

be glad at heart (though it would never admit

Da quelly the

whole excepting the few bettier ready survilled.

By saying to

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tha

then

obey, the Giovernment was devote its desperately new bod timin t the ameriate parelles पाई demobilisatiore. housing etc.

production, trade.

The widespread frw aning non-profitical businessmen a

the advent of the Labour tenctually improved but the day for

Government many policies have day noministration (which is what

mediately counts) bus stedmior ated terribly.

Many however regwed the Crippe's ministry as an hourable exception to this Esterioration.

Tao Brakelemen, and two

reported slain by Indonesians on the ankiets

women were

Haydeeng

131074

The outbreak of violence R Batavia seemeĚ

aide spread than ever. Men, wemmen and children ran for cover 19 British. Dutel, and indonesing! trucka bristling with guns rared through the streets.

All around the central

of the city sus icati

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hend an almost every direction Allied soldiers bastike

Ja

threw up rondklocka,

Bent then P. P Christian.] after a two-day visit to Soma- baya, curamented the "patience, skill and gallantry displayed by British troops in their method) end advance to clean up the city and rescue intertures."

Amsterdam, Nov 21

unity between her and colonial pples, CARMEL Wilhelmn teled 1.

NEW CONFERENCE Netherlands Provisional

Interest is Surabaya - Guy. "We da mat | tred on to day's conference be- ernment luuloy. plan any net of

revenge Nor establishment ut colonial du mination in desia

tween Allied leaders and the Indonesian Cabinet. Some au- Herities are optimistic that the She said she would continue

meetings will bring a teve in the bloody conitiel, but even if to sponsor a spredy meeting of an Empire eonferenve to give in.

the indonesian leaders come to dividuni self-government In some agreement there will fi parts of the Empire the gh be the problem of inducing west. Constitutional man

Java's extremists la tay down She said the

their armas. Governorat would continue to try fo salvage Java's future for both the Ditch and the Indonesians. “A future Commonwealth built on the vo threatened with death if he luntarily accepted solidarity of all parts of the Empire." sulated Press,

Sutar Sjabrir. the new Prunet Minister of the self-proclaimed | government, already has been

negotiates with the Dutch.

At the Batavia talks As.

Goebbels Was

administrative

Cripps is a Socialist but he bes understand how industry works. Da burning question is whether he equally understands commerce.

Associated Press.

spokesmen

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PRESENT TO COMMUNISTS

Since the

Russians made the Communists present of the Manchurian porte of Hulutao and Yingkow by withdrawing before the Chinese National forces could make their scheduled landing, no The Young Marshal who with attempts

in Manchuria the Commuttials Loy is 723

held Generalix- have been made by Chiang Kalsimo Chiang Kai-shek enptive for shek's troops, None Is likely in future unless the Russians assure under virtund arrest for his part 12 days at Stan in 1936 is still

the safe handing over of any de

in that epirocker. barkation points without exposing the National forees to a possible death-trap as they did at Hulutão, and Yingkow.

Chinese could.

A fting of National troops to Manchuria has been made in- possible by numerous conditions which the Russians have specified Moreover if the comply they would find that most of the potential landing grounds in matherm Manchuria are how, in the hands of the Chinese Con munists.

rottes

With the air and sea burred, the land avenue alon re

12

Demobilisation

Itch In The Commons

LONDON, NOV. 21.

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT HOPES TO MAKE A STATE

MENT BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT MONTH ... POS- SIBLY ON DEC. 15. ON THE TERMS AND CON DITIONS OF SERVICE FOR OTHER RANKS OF THE THREE SERVICES.

THIS WAS ANNOUNCED BY THE UNDER- SECRETARY FOR WAR, LORD NATHAN, REPLYING FOR THE GOV-

PIMP.

would

A Rhyme In

Time

An R.A.F. transport Hall, fax. PN 439, waxed lyrical forly minutes after it left Kai Tak yesterday for Shanghat with Rear-Admiral Servves, three staff officers and three eivilians on board.

The pilot of Cho four- engined aircraft endived back to A.HI.Q., Hong Kong:

Port auter engine com rod

busted.

Crew and promengers diagrast-

Tit.

Pressing on quite well on

three;

Land Shanghat in time for ten.

A.H.Q.' reply was nis in rhyme but not exactly a nur sery rhyme. IL remains "top secret.

U.S. Airmen Refuse To Fly In Typhoon

WASHINGTON, NOV,

They have brought the German people to the lowest pitel of NAVY SECRETARY FOR- entertain nu hope of early deliver † INVESTIGATION INTO THE wretchedness from which they can RESTAL HAS ORDERED AN They have invited dopestle COMPLAINT THAT A GROUP violence on every contenunt." PATIENCE TAXED

He suid the real complaining

OF NAVY PILOTS IN OKINA- Chinese patiented in alipost taxed

WA party in the trial was civilization.

WERE PUNISHED FOR -Associated Press.

THEIR REFUSAL TO FLY TO beyond endurance in their negotin. |tions with the Russians.

All mut

ELEVEN POINTS

ANOTHER ISLAND IN THE Justice Robert Jackson. ters are automatically referred to

Chief FACE OF A TYPHOON, RE United States Moscow by the Soviel Eabrissy in Chungking and

prosecutor Lo-day PRESENTATIVE PLOESER, the ¥ ༡༣༢༢༧༤ཏྠ༢༥༧

prosecution's case REPUBLICAN OF MISSOURI harpened replying. But while the questions shown no remarkable alacrity in with

against twenty-two leading Nazle SAID TO-DAY.

A vigorous sixty-one pagu address outlining the history involved are shelved suniewhere in

Nazism and Italcoders. the Kremlin, Manchuria recedes farther and farther

the

front

grasp of China's National Govern

anent.

Chinese officials are acutely dis- tressed by developments there but have not relaxed their polley of saying nothing which the Russians

might take merits.

Chiang Kai-shek'a branch lead quarters at Changchun, where the Generalissime had ment Hsiung Shih-bul, one of his most trusted; generals and his elder so, Chiang Ching-kuo, has been clust.

Most of the officials who

uf

Forrestal wrote to Ploser thul he had received the Ma The real complaining party at sourian's request for investiga- Jackson declared. "In the prison. our bar is civilisation." Justice tion of the conduct of a Navy -

eaptain during the recent ty er'a dock sit twenty broken men. phoon in the Okinawa area and

"No charity can disguise

that it

was being referred to the Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet.

the

fact that the forces which these darkest and most sinister forces in defendants represent

aro the society dictatorship and oppres

The Commander, Forrolet sion. malevolence And passion, wrote, will inquire into the clr- militarism and lawlessness.

cumstances and report back to Justice Jackson opened with A the Navy Department, general summary of the prosecu-

Ploeser made tion's cuse and proceeded

the request under after the relatives of Lieuten- the following hendings: stanti

"Lawless rond to nower."

ant (J. 0.) E. W. Held, Jr., St. Louis, forwarded him "Consolidation of Nazi power."

a 'etter "Battle

they had received in which Held said that six pilots were ordered to fly to Salpan for teaching.___ gear and that they had refused because of the typhoon which they believed would endanger the lives of their crews.

il are back in China proper an virtual refugees who fled to escape the possibility of the greater hui millation of being captured by the Communists.

isad hour for Chi Associated Press.

ERNMENT IN THE RESUMED DEBATE ON DEMOHONJO'S

BILISATION IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS TO-DAY.

MATSUOKA'S PLEA

TOKYO, NOV. 21.

He added "Terms and con dilluns

Against the working

class.

"Battle against the Churches." "Crimes against Jews, "Experiments in aggression." "War of aggression." "Conspiracy with Japan." "Crime in the conduct of war." "Crime ngainat Peace."

and military

Political police FAREWELL

The

the

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PATIENCE URGED

ileld's letter stated that they were called to the Captain's organisations. as they affect officers

quarters and told they would Justico Jackson quoted liberally have their wings taken from are expected to go low without |

TOKYO, NOV, ZI. from diaries and files of Rosen- them. They were put on Okina- any delay."

ASSOCIATES OF BARON berg. spiritual and Ideological At the same

time in the GENERAL SHIGERU HONJO,

wa without food or water. -- "leader of the Nazi Party." AN House of Commons M.P.'s heard: WHOSE SUICIDE WAS

Ho also quoted from a record,

Associated Press. from the Labour Minister, Mr. TO-DAY HIS ACT OF HARI Himmler had an

NOUNCED YESTERDAY, SAID by Himmler, of a conversation THE "ASAHI" QUOTED George Isaacs, details of de- KARI WAS IN THE FORMAL With General Hiroshi Oshima, the January 1939 TO-DAY YOSUKE MATSUO- mobilisation figures and the RITUALISTIC FASHION

London, Nov, 21. ast KA.

EX Japanese Ambassador in Berlin. FORMER JAPANESE Minister's reply to Mr. Callag- CEPT HE WORE AN

The belief that if Indian lenders Himpler ARMY Saturday, the Indonesians were FOREIGN

wrote: "Furthermore would enduro MINISTER. AS han (Labour, Cardiff) who a-k UNIFORM

patiently for six INSTEAD OF Ahu (Oshima) told frankly that the Allies

had succeeded ill

more months they might have the SAYING: "I CONCLUDED ed if a figure of 1,500,000 could KIMONO.

sending ten men with recognize only the established THE TRI-PARTITE TREATY be released by the end of De-

bomb happiness of scoing the fate of a 65-year-old Kwantung across Caucasian frontier. continent settled satisfactorily for pre-war government. Howe er. WITH THE IDEA THAT IT cember.

Army Commander, who is blamed These had the mission to kill all time, was expressed Ute

in on Dutch have accepted the WOULD LEAD

for Mr. Isaacs said "I hesitate to "incident." left a letter saying: "1

creating the JAPAN TO

Manchurian Stalin.-Router.

interview to-day by Prof. Goorga changed situation and agreed PEACE.

RETROACTIVE LAW? give a guarantee but there is

Catlin, British Labour Intellec- to concessions undreamed of

cannot endure as a soldier of our "Accordingly, after the con-every prospect of that being country to appear before a court

Nuernberg, Nov. 21. tual.-Router. before the war. The Indone-clusion of the Soviet-Japanese done."

Attorneys for nineteen of the of Alliod powers. I find no way twenty Nazi leaders facing the Ity of the trial on are mulling over a neutrality pact, I intended to go

Viscount Samuel in the Lords, of apologizing to His Majesty and International War

the grounds WHEN

Crimes Tri-that it constituted a rotronctive LIDA BAAROVA proposal for modified

k

to the United States and con-stressing the hardship caused people for bringing my nation to bunal to-day challenged the legal-law-Associated Press. (REAL NAME LUDMILLA minion status, gradually evolv- clude a peace pact with that by the slowness of demobilisa-į such a miserable state of affairs." BABKOVA) WAS BORN IN ing into self-government. PRAGUE, HER DOMINEERING

country and talked about it tion, wald "The service of moni-Associated Press. A British report on casualties Kono-in the forces is compulsory en MOTHER WAS DETERMINED for the period Oct. 8-Nov. 18 with Premier Fuminare when ployment and their pay is a dole DE GAULLE THAT SHE SHOULD GROW said 85 members of the British the Konoye Cabinet collapsed." in uniform." INTO A RADIANT SOMEBODY and Indian forces were killed in

Lida became one in motion plc- Java, 296 wounded and 172 misa-wanted at the Sugamo prison Government's

He said he understood he was Another speaker stated that BEGINS

demobilisation' she was the ing-Associated Press.

but said he could hardly walk a policy was having a disastrous DUTCH WITHDRAWAL

block due to the hardening of effect on industry. "As far as Batavia, Nov. 21. Goobbeis was benten up (either A communique issued here his body. "I am Go and I con- the enterprise with which I am by her burly husband, Gustav to-day said: "In connection with sider I am already doomed."-connected is concerned we have Frohlich, or by friends of his) for the serious outbreaks of dis-Associated Press.

In Her Rooms

PRAGUE, NOV. 20.

years ago

Lures.

Seven centre of an international incident, Paul Joseph

when gontish little

sians now

being entertained in Lida's cham-order in Batavia on Nov. 18 andr bera.

20, and on instructions of the Bombers Into Berliners coined n ernek: "Ich mochte so gern fruhlich sein Allied Command, all Dutch and which can mein ofthor "wisis 7 native troops are being with Bungalows ware happy" or "I wish I were drawn from Batavia."A 980-

Frohlich.'

In Prague yesterday Lida was indicted by the People's Court as

a traitor to Czechoslovakia.

She had been captured

eiated Press.

SUDDEN ARRESTS IN

London, Nov. 21. Five great United Kingdom fac tories are now turning out the world's finest prefabricated houses.

received back less than three per cent of our called up personnel

"Our young men are being called up only to swell the zaaks of unemployed in the Army.

"I am struck by bow deeply the iron of disappointment has entered the souls of these young men."-Router.

ANEW

Washington Finance Talks Drag On

WASHINGTON, NOV, 20. THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT'S NEW LOAN PLAN WAS TO-DAY CABLED TO LONDON FOR CONSIDERA- TION.

IT

IS BELIEVED THAT THE LATEST MOVE IS AN AT- TEMPT TO REACH A SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION TO THE LONG DRAWNOUT ANGLO-AMERICAN. FINAN CIAL TALKS.

Paris, Nov. 21, General de Gaulie, who is still faced with a dilemma on the poll- tleal division of his Cabinet, has, resumed the task of forming an Interim Government by calling into consultation the représenta- tives of the three major parties.

Whether the Communists, who demands for at least one of the precipitated the crisis with thoir

It is felt, however, that avencial talks now taking place In three. most Important Cabinot ponts, would attend the meeting is the plan sont to-day will not re- Washington and a possibility of nok Kurown.

sult in a solution of the so-called total failure has been suggested This was revealed yesterday by IMPERIAL ASSETS BLOCKED Graf de Gaulle's

If the Communists do meet with "semi-deadlock."

although the highest American appeal, it

The plan contains no agree-quartere continue to be optimis- the Secretary to the Ministry of

might pave the way for n comment on the total amount of the tle. Tokyo, Nov. 21. Aircraft Production, Mr. Wood- Bucharest, Nov. 21.burn, at the opening of the first

Imperial household assets and promise by which both would be lean. The British inulat on a The British are still helding

Bayo It was disclosed to-day that a aluminium house erected in Black- all Imperial transactions have ablo to

face. Associatel sum of about $4,500,000,000. out for a loan of $4,000,000,000, number of members of the Na- pool.

Press. been blocked ля a result of a new

The Americans stand firm on while the Americans Insist that tlonal Peasant and National Li- "Boating bombers Into bungu- directivo by General MacArthur

84,000,000,000.. Washington, Nov. 21. beral Parties: In opposition lows is another version of turning to-day.

$8,500,000,000 fa all that. Con The order also directed that the William A. Stanfil, a Kentucky This includen the cont of goods gross will allow.. to the Government were ar- words Into ploughshares he Recaleltrant Japanone are atill

examina Republican, was appointed yeater supplied by the United States Hoth sumo are considerably being discovered in Okinawa Tented during the night said, "Fifty thousand bungalows Japanese Government

to Britain-since-the-Paolile War below what the British delega

tion have insisted Is the mini- ese-American, brought in forty oral Secretary of the Liberal next year or two from thousands inventories, of the Imperial for, auecoed A. B. (Happy) Chandler of tons of aluminium gorap ro- tuno already mibmitted to Amorlar US Senator. Chandler is now Nipponese on November 11.--As Party is believed to have been covered from obsoleto aircraft."--

Crinis throatens. again the mum Britain needs in her res can Headquarters, Associated! American Baseball Commissioner. sociated Press.

among themRouter.

| London Press Barvico.

Anglo-American trade and Onan- conversion period. Route Associated Press.

in

Munich, dressed plainly in brown BUCHAREST

costume, hat to match. It was the dress in which he planned

to marry a GI; thus oncapo Czech Justice-Associated Press.

STILL COMING IN,

Manila, Nov. 21,

J

Sergeant Konzo Miyashiro, Japan- Constantin Bratianu, Gon-

on will be producent in Britain in the and cutify the accuracy of the day by the State Governor

Produ.

terminated.