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Vol. I. No. 75.

Thursday, December 6th, 1945.

NEAR TO CHAOS

Berlin A City Of Vice

And Delinquency

BERLIN, DEC. 5. TACKLING A PROBLEM WHICH AN AMERICAN MILI

TARY GOVERNMENT MEDICAL OFFICER DESCKER. ED AS "MORE NEARLY CHAOS THAN A MORVE BREAKDOWN" THE FOER OCCUPYING POWERS IN BERLIN, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE GERMAN POLICE ARE MAKINE A CONCERTED DRIVE AGAINST VICE AND TELIQUENCY.

EVERY WEEK ABOUT 2,500 BERLIN WOMEN AND GIRLS. SOME ONLY 1 TO 16 YEARS OLD. ARE ROUNDED UP. UNTIL RECENTLY 50 PER CENT WERE FOUND TO BE VENEREALLY DISEASED HUT A CAMPAIGN OF COMPULSORY TREATMENT 18 NOW REDUCING THIS TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OP 25 PER CENT

Hirchito Not So Innocent

TOKYO,

The merits al officer estimate 1 Dral Car

and

250,000 women of many

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a wig at genet 608 ale professional

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format.

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The te up for torse

IT WAS DISCLOSED TO DAY THAT A JAPANESE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE WAS HELD IN SEPTEMBER, AL, AT WHICH IT WAS DECIDED JAPAN WOULD BEGIN PREPARING FOR WAR IN MID OCTOBERequest toy The

A IMPROVEMENT IN NEGOTIATIONS AT WASHING

THERE

WAS

UNLESS MARKER

TON.

It has been nuthoritatively s else that Prines Honeye was Premer at the time of

who

Bar

China Dident.“

alexorated

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meeting during recent anterioge tion by American overs

Retired en Toshizo Nishi the Associatest Press adot second meeting in November early December. He said the Bai peror informed the aupreme wat vuncil, through the chiefs 135 HERST, "Japan might have to things didn't improve.

if

On each occasion there WAS IN oppuaition from the Emperor or any other participant to the mil tarist-sponsored plans for break- ing the diplomatic deadlock with guafire. There was no proposal to attempt fo remove the major stumbling block removal of Jay- anese troops from China.

Premier Kjuro Shideharn tuld the House of Representatives day ho believes the Emperor has no war responsibility. He mid the occupation authorities thus

CALC

have not raised this question with the Government. Associated Press,

JEEP HOLD-UP ARRESTS

MANILA, DEC. 5. THE BIGGEST BANK Ro BERY EVER STAGED IN THE PHILIPPINES

alimed

"Or

Naza

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1,000 Atom Bombs

Hollywood, Dec. 5. Dr. Linus Pauling, Head of the Chemistry Department of the California Institute af Technology, says that between 100 and 200 afomir bombe of "email" arinty cxistence Sinter He

SEC no1

in the United said there was

не 22601 fu believe that there mag not be 1,000 beinha in this country next year.

He said that larger bamba than these move developed will be nude. Associated Press

Not Told About RAF. Prisoners

BATAVIA, DEC

5.

DR. SHARI, TRE INDONE- PREMIER DECLARED

SIAN abrakyat

二

must remu nylon that the eramaren! Regatinas mede the furth rate "And met here Meath

2,000, props .1

KIME OF form the phy Winch stream ADN housand 16 Ongooses with mnog lost chillen

tatj

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FROM PROSTITUTES

"Foad and shelter are short and nutty

Ma

"Above all Beran is a cheer brass city in whalein fe n stopped for most of the Genizat girls and the only way to are!

cigarette or candy bar

TO DAY THAT HE WAS NOT TOLD TILL THE FOLLOWING DAY THAT THE OCCUPANTS OF AN R.A.F. DAKOTA WHICH CRASHED NEAR BATAVIA HAU HEEN TAKEN PRI SONER

This was the Pakuto whee 24 Fradian a Britisà pecupants were subsequently mastered.

Shari said that when

WA

fir re

men furse font their wen through rebred the report that the death imprisonment

had been Lakon prisoner after the plane bad crashed at Bekasal he sent a fetter ordering them to be brought to Batavia? Itaranem sengee had not returned nd he feared the letter

delivered 100 Inte.

"Unfortunately search parties burned the village and I think this excited the population," he And think only two or three

villagers. were killed near the plane when they refused to accomp

1 cutsce half or night club is through an Allied soldier.”

There is no legally cattilya- aned prostitution in Berlin bust according to the criminal police, at the time of the capitulation.

therr

pre atitutes and noother 25,000 serpi- prestitutes,

were some

Associated Press.

the

"Bekassi was always a dificult district and well known for R bandits". Reuter.

Scathing Indictment Of Nazi Leaders

NUERNBERG, DEC. 5.

THE 24 NAZI LEADERS WHO ARE ON TRIAL FOR THEIR LIVES HERE BEFORE THE INTERNATIONAL TRI- BUNAL WERE TO-DAY EXCORIATED IN THE NAME OF THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AS "MUR- DERERS AND ROHEERS" PERSONALLY AND

IN- DIVIDUALLY ACCOUNTABLE FOR BREAKING THE WORLD'S PEACE.

IN THE ARREST OF POUR | OPENING THE BRITISH CASE AGAINST HERMANN FILIPINO YOUTHS

NIGHT WITH 300,000

(U.S.$189,580) OF

ENDED

LAST PESOS

THE LOOT

twe

GOERING AND THE FELLOW MEMBERS OF HIS FALLEN CLIQUE, SIR HARTLEY SHAWCROSS, AT TORNEY GENERAL FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM, DECLARED THAT THE DEFENDANTS HAD PILOT- ED GERMANY INTO "AGGRESSION NAKED AND UN- ASHAMED" AND HAD PLUNGED THE WORLD INTO AN APPALLINGLY COSTLY WAR,

Price 10 cts.

INDEPENDENT ARMY OCCUPIES MUKDEN

CHUNGKING, DEC. 5. CHINESE-PRESS-DISPATCH SAID INDEPENDENT-

MANCHURIAN FORCES MARCHED INTO MUKDEN YESTERDAY TO PREPARE A WELCOME FOR CEN- TRAL GOVERNMENT TROOPS, WHOSE ADVANCE ELEMENTS WERE LAST REPORTED ABOUT 30 MILES. FROM THE IMPORTANT MANCHURIAN IN. DUSTRIAL CITY.

PRESS SAID

THE REPORT CAME AFTER AN ASSOCIATËD

DISPATCH UNDER CHINHSIEN DATELINE THE NATIONALIST TROOPS WERE PREPARED TO PROCEED INTO MUKDEN WHENEVER THE "GO AHEAD SIGNAL IS RE- CEIVED FROM THE RUS- SIANS AND CHUNGKING. Communist quarters to-day alleged that the Nationalists are currying oul large-scale seription in six provinces for purposen of civil war and named these ne Shansi. Hopel Shan- tang, Sulyuan, Honan and An- hwel.

Final Agreement On Loan In Sight

WASHINGTON, DEC. 5.

WITH FINAL AGREEMENT ON THE AMERICAN LOAN OF $4,400.000,000 IN SIGHT PROBABLY ONLY A MATTER OF 24 OR 30 HOURS AWAY THE HIGH- EST ECONOMIC BRAINS OF BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES TO-DAY ENTERED THE LAST LAP OF THE LONG WEARYING BUT HISTORIC TASK OF RE-ESTABLISHING WAR IMPOVERISHED BRITAIN AS A GOING CONCERN.

THE SUPREME QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN SETTLED.

FINAL AGGREEMENT IS UNDERSTOOD AUTHORI TATIVELY TO HAVE BEEN REACHED ON THE SIZE OF THE LOAN.

The loan would be repayable Jut two per cent. per unum over a period of 50 years, be ginning Ave years hence.

Payment of interest would be walved in any your when Bri. tain's solar balance is izde quate to be determined by an international monetary funds. but the capital would invariably be repaid.

Only a few inches of disuprem 12+1 remained.

They were tough Inches.

But

MOST DIFFICULT

Of all the mass of financial detail with which the negetiu LOTA have wrestled for thre months this remaining bly of obstinate and conflicting points was the most difficult to shape into forms which will satisfy the British Cabinet and the U.S. Congress the powerful Arbiter whose approval has still to be won even when the agree ment is signed.

It is announced that the Dalt. ed States has granted

$560,000,000

loan

of

over

to France, at two and three eighths in terest

thirty yente. - Reuter.

Praise Of Chinese Gl

Arrest In

Shamshuipo

Shooting

GOOD WORK BY THE SHAMSHUIPO POLICE HAS RESULTED IN THE ARREST ON A CHINESE ALLEGED TO BE CONNECTED WITH THE KILLING OF CIBNEW DETECTIVE LUK CHUNG ON TUESDAY NIGHT

off

by

FAD

cun-

These quarters say that Ronan province alone 100,000 men have been conscripter.

NATIONALIST VERSION They asserted also that one of General Yen Haih-shan's armies had reinforced the north Shanxi elty of Tatung, junction of the Tatung-Puchow and Pei- ping-Sulyunn ruilroads.

Suicide Of Kempal

Shanghai, Doc. 5. Lt. Col. Moriji Hotter Commander of the dreaded Japanese gendurmoria Hankow, filled himself with poison on Nov. Zag while awaiting arrest for having tortured to death three American fliers, it was vealed to-day,

The

Army war

oritzer branch said that he had sign- ed a statement admitting Air part in the

alayinge,~¿İsen- ciated Presa,

TO

MORE POWERS FOR CIVIL

AUTHORITY

THE

FIRST STAGE IN

CIVIL

ADMINISTEA-.

They declared that the pur-THE PROCESS OF RESTOR pose was to collaborato with ING "the Japanese and the puppets" TION THROUGHOUT THE at Tatunk to attack the liberal- COLONY APPEARS TO RE ed arend the Nationalist ver-

ENVISAGED IN A NEW PRO- sion is that Tatung is under CLAMATION, NO. 16, ISSUED siege by the Communists and

YESTERDAY BY THE COM- that reinforcements mist be

MANDER-IN-CHIEF. sent to relieve the defenders of the city

A Communist dispatch alleges that the Nationalists are plan- ning an offensive against the Communist-held porta of the fon, Walhniwei and Langbow -Associated Press.

Humberto's Choice

Subject to any orders and directiona of the Comman- | der-in-Chief or the Senior Off-

cer

in command of H.R.M. Forces in Hong Kong, full just- eial legislative executive and adruinistrative powers and res ponsibilities and exclusive Jurisdiction over all persons property throughout the Colaný is delegated under the new Pro- clamation to the Chief Civil Af fairs Officer. Brigadier

Macdougall.

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The CC.A.0.

further tu

D.M.

The effect is to concentrate the government of the Colup more comprehensively thin hitherto in the hands of CIP Affairs.

The detective,

who was duty, was In Pei Ho Street al

is authoris about 9.45 p.m. when he saw a

ROME, DEC. .

delogate thes power to any person he may crowd quarrelling and went toTO, LIEUT-GENERAL OF THE CROWN PRINCE HUMBER- investigate.

think it, and to authorise y At the corner of Nam Chung CIDE DE GASPERI PREMIER

further delegation. REALM, TO-DAY NAMED AL- Street a shot was fired at him OF ITALY FOLLOWING A a Chinese. The defective NINE-DAY GOVERNMENT

into the Yuen Chow tea CRISIS. house followed by his assailant. the backyard two more shots were fired at the er tire.

One pierced his chest and for the key Ministry of Interior he died instantly. His revoland decided to enter the Govern- ment because of the great esteem His ansailant made good his to announce the new Cabinet soon. for De Gasperi who is expected

132

ver was taken from him,

escape.

The Christian Demverat lender named after the Liberal Party had abandoned the demand

— Associated Press.

General Tells Of Last Moments In Singapore

SAN FRANCISCO, DEC. 4. REVOLUTIONS, IN ADDI- TJON 10 THE CURRENT CIVIL WAR, WOULD SPRING UP IN CHINA WITH THE WITHDRAWAL Op AMERI-T-GEN. HENRY GORDON BENNETT,

CAN SUPPORT FROM CHIANG KAI-SHEK, DECLARED COLO- NEL A. B, STACKPOLE, WHO RECENTLY

FROM

RETURNED

DUTY WITH THE CHINESE COMMAND.

Stackpole said, that the power of distributing foot and arms, in- cluding that received from the United States, will enable Chiang Kai-shek to control his generals. Expressing "the utmost ad- miration for the Chinese soldiers" Stackpole blamed politics

and widespread trading on the side of army officers for some failures of

MELBOURNE, DEC. 5.

FORMER COM- MANDER OF THE AUSTRALIAN FORCES IN MALA- YA, WENT INTO THE WITNESS BOX TO-DAY TO EX- PLAIN HIS DEPARTURE FROM SINGAPORE WHEN THE PORT FELL TO THE JAPANESE IN FEBRUARY, 1942.

MR. GLANCY, COUNSEL FOR LT-GEN. BENNETT, EX- AMINING SAID: "ON FEB. 12, THE POSITION ON SINGAPORE ISLAND WAS MOST SERIOUS?" GEN. ERAL BENNETT REPLIED: "VERY, VERY SERIOUS --YES."

thing could happen if they onder at night."

General Bennett added that at a later conference of his own com- and he told his own officers of this docision.

Speaking of the conference of commanders, which discussed the military situation on Feb. 18, Bennett said: "We agreed the Chineso armies,Associated unanimously that the situation was completely hopeless." As a result of our discussions, Gen- eral Percival decided to lot Fleld-Marshal Wavell know of it cussed what we would do and the General Bennett: "Yes. Wo die- and to ask that we be per nit-methods that we would adopt. I ted to surrender.

Press.

URANIUM AREA TO BE EVACUATED

"A reply from Field-Marshal Wavell came back that afternoon saying, "No. You will fight to the last man." General Bennett de- clored.

further ordera?"

Mr. Clancy: "Wero there any

told them not to pass it to the men at that stage because we did not want any trouble from the men.

Reuter.

IN THEIR POSSESSION.

The foursome held clerks of the Philippine brunch of the Bank of Communications atud escaped in a Jeep. The dar-

London, Dec. 6. ing robbery was ataged while the

The area containing the only unarmed clerks were transferring

"These пек were no mure the black list of German promises known uranium deposits in willing tools," Shawcross said. to keep peace as the accused war funds to the National City bank.

Eastern Europe Aroun-l were captured "They are men whose support criminals gathered in the prison Inchyarave, in Czecho-Slovakia, The four men eight hours later. Witnesses built ilitler up into the positioners' box. spotted the get-awhy Jeon and of power be occupied. They are

The prosecutor's exposition of

is being evacuated by the Red tipped sollee, who

the Munich agreement

Next day, the Japanese continu- 1934 Army under its recent agree of clues successfully.

men whose initiation and plan- which, he claimed, "partially follment with the Czecho-Slovak od their attacks and on Feb. 16. ning perhaps conceived and ver- Col. J. P. Holland. Manila tally made possible the nets of police chief, said the Bank of Communications had not asked for aggression in Hitler's name." -police-protection. It is the-second-

largest Chinese bank in Manila.

parnued the

Colonel Holland's original re- port was that the guarda were robbed of 413,000 pesos, but the four robbers had the tenser sum in their annda when Associated Prees,

His address introduced tho Bri- tish citation of proof that the accused were guilty of crimes against peuce:

The United States has concluded its presentation on the first of caught three other counts in the indict- ment that the Nazis engaged in a conspiracy to wage a war agKression. The two remaining counts charging war crimes and crimes against humanity are to be France. presented jointly by Russia and

MALLABY PHOTOS

Batavia, Doc. 5. Photography connected with the murder of Brigadier-General A. W. H. Mallaby, commandor of the 49th Infantry Brigade," on Oct 30, which were seized from Indonesians by n British search party, have now reached Batavia. One shows the Brigndier's kead in profile. Anothor shows the burnt out car.-Router.

of

Shawcross first sought to show lated firmly established internu that Iitler and his gang had vlo- tional law through thoir aggres alon and preparation for aggres alon,

BLACK LIST

ed

the

man plan for the destruction of

Malaya Command called for or at least delayed" the Ger- Government, the Czech

Minis- another conference. ter of Foreign Affairs, M. Jan General Bennett described Czechoslovakia, caused some com- Masaryk,

thu ment among Allied observers. ~Reuter."

had

been avoided up to that time "be-

He declared later that war

cause of the love of peace, the lack of preparedness, the patience, the of the democratic powers." cowardice, call it what you will

"

CRUELTY ALMOST

announced to-day.military situation as eve and COMMON PLACE

the men were exhausted, while only three days supplies remained for the troops.

POSITION DESPERATE

Roosevelt Had Nothing To Do With It

WASHINGTON, DEC. 5.. DOCTOR VANNERVAR BUSH

SAID LAST NIGHT THAT THE LATE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HAD MADE A DECISION TO BURN OUT JAPANESE CITIES WITH A NEW KIND OF INCENDIARY BOMB BUT THAT HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE DECISION TO DROP ATOMIC BOMBS

OVER NAGASARI AND HIROSHIMA.

(The Associated Press, in f account yesterday of Bush'e testi- mony, before the Senate Com- mittee on atomic energy, erron- eously quoted him as saying that Roosevelt had made the decision. to use both weapons.

Bush, who headed the war work of American scientiflo labora

that tories, stated Inter

the atomic bomb was not tested until after President Roosevelt's death). -Associated Press.

BRAZIL ELECTIONS

Rio De Janeiro, Dec. 5. Army General Burico Gaspar Dutra, supported by former Pre- aldent Getukio Vargas in the Brazilian elections. bald a sub- stantial lead over Air General Eduardo Gomes on the basis of scattered unofficial returns. Comm- muniat Yeddo Fluza is runne third,

Dutra is believed to be benont- Ing from the political machinoty of ousted President Vargas,Ab Rocluted Press,

CLAIMS ON JAPAN

Manila, Dec.. 5. President Osmena to-day sent the Philippines Reparations claims against Japan to Commisafonet Paul McNutt.

It is believed that, apart from cash, thoro aro claimasin the form. of machinery. The Philippines the want

principally industrial plants, laboratory equipment and electria taken by Japan early during the operating transmission equipment occupation-Associated Press.

DIRECT AIR SERVICE

SHIPS FOR HONG KONG

LONDON, DEC, G. The air-raid precautions system THE BISHOP OF LONDON London, Dec. &.

had more or less broken down and SAID TO-DAY THAT IT WAS United Kingdom shipping there had been heavy casualties LAMENTABLY TRUE THAT elreles confirm that

The hospitals WE HAD IN THESE DAYS Beveral among Wardens. GOERING GLUM..

auilings have been effected to

were without water for 24 hours. TO RE-EDUCATE PEOPLE TO Former Foreign Minister Joa Malaya and Hong Kong this bombing were growing and many CHRISTIAN CONDUCT

Casualties among civilians duo to THE TRUE STANDARDS OF chim von Ribbentrop

was. the month.. Commercial busiest among the defendants, tak ments to the Far East have there was no one to rescue those standards which seemed for more ship buldings kad tumbled down and A deterioration from Christian Iruz notes when his name was men- been developing and toned separately in Shawcross mainly of Government-sponsor-

consist trapped underneath, he said.

scrlous than tha rest: was reettal of Nazi plotting.

remarkablo recrudesconce cruelty which had become almost Hermann Goering was a glum ed goods-Reuter. - were temporarily abandoned. listener. His blustoring gestures

commonplace. EDDA TO APPEAR

There were not only the horrore When the position was most do- of Belson parate and urgent another confer other concentration camps in Gor- and Buchenwald and Rome, Dec. 5 once was hold at which it was many, but the records of the allwo wore to ask the Japanese dies enacted in various European decided to surrender uncondition revolutionary movements in China and Russia, and the torrible trager they would normit 1,000 mon:to countries during the war. We remain under armoto provent ourselves were not entirely exempt, troublo in the city which was, full It was time we recognized this of Indians. We tried to arrange fact and set ourselves against it, that hostilities should coase at because cruelty was infectious, and 16.30 hours but I submitted if we were not careful we should strearly that they should cease at find the Christian standard sink daylight. plotured that any ing lower and lower

Shawcrons quoted gravely from

the world"

a Gorman naval memorandum of September, 1938 envisagine war Edda Ciano, daughter of "against one half to two-thirds of Mussolini and widow of Count Clano, le to appear before a Thon, from the long-conconlod

Lord Justice Lawrence announ words of the Nazis themselves, he ced that the Tribunel would long local court at Messina, Sielly Seattle. Dec. 5. traced tho Two thousan, Japanesa repa broken trentice, violated frontiere from 09.00 to 12.00. GM.T. and

German conres of then its nession hereafter, sitting next Monday to clear up her triates from the Texas latern-and

position, ultimately chrnaute mont camp will all on Tuesday misery.

and 18.00 to 16.00 G.M.T. dally with

Since she was expelled from from here for Japan-Associated

a ten-minute recess, during each her own land, she has been con- The calm diapassionate voice of sitting. Saturday's session will fined on the Island of Lipari PYCOO.

Britain's chief prosecutor recited be abandoned. Associated Press. Router.

"

start a trip to-day across the

Now York, Dec. 5. A four-engined plane wil."- Atlantic as a test flight for a now direct service between New York and Calcutta, which Pan- by way of London, Brissole, Budapest, Istanbul, Ankara, Te American Airways la planning

heran and Karachi.-Neuter::