1946-01-01 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1946.

MURDER FACTORY ESCAPE

A.P. Correspondent Who Survived Nazi Horrors

A DRY WORLD WANTS SCOTCH

Speyside

Scotland) Distillers

being bambourded with in

the world quiries from all over for Sench whisky but there is and very now buyers. Title for little even| for the Scots

Aniver

A Speyside daliller sandd that he from hund post had ༈WE}vཀ abroad, one for 1,90014890 gallons far Persin and näother for 30,000 gathing for Irak,

" cult wet let then have spe gallon, as alone 1,000,000 Jun" he ad

"Wly allowed 47 por

cont

of the 1993 quota of trackin for the manufacture of whisky AR our old en-tomers are demand

Deat there is notte

subm

12 1 mew buyers

Appropriate

Majdanck, Poland, Dec. 31. The German SX. afficer, Paul Hofman, who wear con- victed of operating a cranio- fortum at this former Nazi concentration camp, man hang. ed before a cranzel of 20.000

DACHER.

erected tw The cuffod amid

where crematoriumIN Hoffman was accused of burs ing many bodies of Poles and other Allied prisoners of war, During the recent trial, wit- tornara testified that they mous Hodman on several neCARRARA tann Brely born infants inla

Anerated Press the apron.

Admiral Was Given Adequate Warning

WASHINGTON, DEC. 31

ADMIRAL BAROLD R STARK 1947 UNITED STATES CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS, TOLD THE CON HARBOUR INVESTIGATING GRESSIONAL PRAHL COMMITTER TO DAY THAT ADMIRAL BUSBAND

AT HAWAIL KE KIMMEL, FLEET COMMANDER

AND DHER CEIVER "ADEQUATE IN FORMATION TIVES TO BE ON GBARI PRIOR TO NESE ATTACK ON DEC

Stari

POCVAN

7

THE JAPA

to the stand as De President Housevelt and Spece

Nov

18 Months In Hadamar Camp

By Godfrey H. P. Anderson).

HADAMAR, DEC. 31. LIKE SOME 10,000 BEFORE ME, I ENTERED THE HADA- MAR MURDER FACTORY. BUT--UNLIKE THE 40,000

I CAME OUT AGAIN ALIVE. POR 38 MONTHS FROM SETEMBER 1943 TO FEBRUARY 1945 - WATCHED THE "PATIENTS" ARRIVE AT HADAMAK ASYLUM AND

THE PASS THROUGH

THEY DOUBLE WOODEN DOORS,

NEVER CAME

OUT, BUT ALWAYS MORE ARRIVED.

I was a prisoner of war, von- | Injections - Ao experiment, you nee, Bned with nearly 300 British They did not always burn them. Sometimes they buried them, 16 officers in and Dominion

ur 2 torother, at the top of the hill. Those

women,

doors sw

19-01

н

pou

sure

Loot

Munich, Dea. 31. More than 6,000 art tren

stolen from France by the Nazis and taken to Nei- schwuntein Castle, nour here, have been placed aboard troo trains and are now on their way back to France.

The treasures have been packed into over 12,000 cases. and connial in part of items bolonging

the famous Rothschild collection.-Anne-

ciated Press,

SNAGS IN CHINA

Byrnes Warning On China Strife

WASHINGTON, DEC. 31. SECRETARY OF STATE BYRNES TO-DAY DECLARED IN A RADIO REPORT TO THE NATION THAT THE NEW POLICY AND CONTROL MACHINERY FOR BEATËN JAPAN "SAFEGUARDS THE EFFICIENT ADMINIS- TRATION" OF GENERAL MACARTHUR,

THE SECRETARY HELD OUT HOPES TO THE KOREANS THAT THE JOINT SOVIET-AMERICAN COMMISSION MAY FIND IT POSSIBLE TO DISPENSE WITH TRUSTEESHIP.

He warned China that a na- Lion livided by civil strife enn- not take its rightful place among its allies and discharge properly ita international tles.

Parity In TensiblC.N. Currency

He stressed that the decisio i to set up a Commissio and Council for Japan left the Unit ed States in her top policy- (Continued from Page 1)

making role and would not heam. criminations in the press are as string the administrativa po- acrimnions an ever.

he ex-

cal prisoners.

Lila

da

currence.

and

to

M

Silke, furs and other commodi- ties continue their price inerONSER levels even bigher than America in some cases. Storkn aro being depleted and new stocks are mvt forthcoming. Ansoclated Preas.

Tientsin. Dec. 31. Parity between Chinese national currency in the Shnughai, Chung- king and Tientain areas in almost complete, with both Nationalis warty scles, a few hundred

were the cathert

and puppet money continuing to yards across the valley from the

The "New China Daily News.rs of General MacArthur. used to are each morning

ile Maid the United States Arise an average of 100 points a grim, red brick hospital with

Chungking mouthpiece of the

The puppet money till MENTAL EXPERT

"from the teet" had planned { day, Tils

Chinese Communist Party. painted giant red crosses

As we teled un that zig-zag

to make the control of Japassed extensively. on the roof.

Herr day ruprated some of the bath I knew so well, the

Financial interests seam Intent "an allied responsibility." He Anderson, at Ansociated Press Direktor told his story, He was Bunds which the Communiste

United on cornering all possible atated that the establishment of war correspondent had been enp- Dr. William not Wilhelm, he said have made from time to time.

States currency. Most Chinese and hero an 11-nalica Commission with foreign business concer718 tured by the Germana in Africa).) Akvater, a mental expert who These included an open election veto power reserved for the

Each week a train

German for the legalisation of political United States, pulled Info | bad worked in various

now quote their soaring pricea in the stain Eleme Old men, old | asyluma before the wat

United States gold where possible. Russia parties and the release of politi-Ching assured that no basic al Chem 47 of

realite,

Business is brisk, I retired." latbered out. Sometimes there plained. "1 disapproved TETOML

White-coated | strongly of the experiments which At the same time Communistlied policy for Japan could l were children, tov doctors and white ear nurses the Nazis made us do to mental spokesmen both at Yenan and adopted without American run- Burses met them and helped the patient. I herane quite ill worry Chungking have reflerated the eld folk up the hill. The

He cited the provision for the winters

alsmat it ins

persoll Communist demands for the Bad Bought They

United States to issue interim wide.

As establishment of went

mission to retire on pensiOTA.

a deneratia inside We never saw them again. 1 wa nid, then let me go,

directives to General Mar Arthur In May coalition government and #11- We priserness 1 la ince about of this year. after the directorialisation of the Chinese

["on all urgent matters" pend- "They must be sleeping six in of this hospital had been removed

ing Commuasion agreement and a bed by now," we taval to way for trial. they called me back

said that only A Nationallat despatch to-day

the following when another tinja arrived.

Now I have 360 patients to care

subjects were charged that the Communists three

excepted for. It is sad, Init al least 1 am free

best for

the middle of this from this temporary power; them have since

(1) Changes in the control month again.

her attacking Kufow, He said Law orders for destrue-Shantung, birthplace

of Japan as set forth in the tion of patients ea331* from the great sage of China, Confucha surrender terms. Ministry of Interior in Bersin. and

(2) Fundamental changes ir Nationalis: Asserted the There was a list and

the the names

constitutional Japanese ecnmunder there had made a it. were marked our con The

structure.

(3) doctors were told it was the Fue request for urgent dispatch of

Changes It Mald

In the Jups they reinforcements. hrer's personal order but

Communists were

hese government as a whole. were forbidden to disclose that.

ATOMIC CONTROL The fandles were Rimply told rounding the "sacrød eily" and

Byrnes said that discusatoas the patiems "died."

were trying to isolate it from

on atomic energy was limited to the outside world,

the British and American pro- posal for the establishment by the United Nations of a Com- 8.00 p.m.Varisly. mission.

were

Procesalon

Botne

hill

elu

11

LOAD OF CORPSES

caf Then early upe morning one

191 us dolces al stretcher-bearers going up the hill behind the hospital. At the tou first witness after the christmus tary of State Hall and "neither ther bent to pull aside

over a pianka. Then they tipped up the would be surprised In a 25,00l word sinta

covered bur stretchers so their officer panese surprise alluck. menf. the white haired

Stark recalled that on

dous slid from view The planks terskafiend at early in 1911 h

The replnend.

stretcher was "triplug" for 1 esudent 27 he sent the Fleet Lineman ca

down the **Thi ali-bearers haake+k Roosevelt's approval fee in betisaa message saying: naval personsid Herrinsed patch is to be considered a war again

On the hilltop, overlooking this We started to watch ach morn The engrinu tee that Congress hai waling Negotiations with Ju-!

peaceful valley of the Westerwald, Always was the anime, Sum kellow flowers were dancing in the net approved all las rattur, dea pan lorking toward slabitration day broke over the valley. of endtions In the Par fie for an increment fleet.

mer and winter, wet, liste or snow, I wind upon the serried ranks of Execute apparu have veasand,

the evered burdens were carrid | craves. A sumpler wooden post He also said

mass burial in mass bearing a number was all there 1 He wrote Admir.d Thomas printe defensive deplovigent pre-to the tou

was a mark identity of who lay Bar Commander of the Far paratory to carrying on tasks graves.

talked

with the German there. The numbers went up to Eastern Fleet on Nov. 7. 11.aged in war plan 46."

He said he never used the guarde. "You don't need to worry. 500 Thad "The Navy is already in the

they're Tuna Lies,” they used to war in the Atlantic." Ameisen words "war warning" in any

The

kilk German state SILN other dispafels and they were in- shups then were copy way

Textil clisted in this instance to them mercifully. Their ales Brein as the an e

You don't need to worry are toll erstaande the extreme gravity of

i no concern of yours. Fand

Seven months alust to the day situation."-- Aswelated R

after my liberation by the Ameri

a few works Jean 1st Ausy and

trin which after the Hador Esent the guilty to their judgment. I drove in seep to those grimly cloed dours I kicked and they

pened. I walked inside.

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A window in the inner wall shot up and shaven head poked out. Idemanded the Torr Direktør, The Berr Direktor Was old and stooped, buld-headed, and he blink

ed at me a little scured through

spectacles. I asked 1 Sve the

13

armies.

60,000

A GOOD ONE

of

the

that

Mur-

He declared: "At no time

were

A Communist report allegos that over 6,900 fully armed Ja- anese troops were seat to the fronts north and south of Tal-

an, capital of Shansi, to parti- did we discuss any technical or eipate in attacks against Com- selenite matters nor we

It said the Na- asked by the Soviet Governmne at "Uf course there were

munist forcсB.

there about the new weapon." tionalists

were treating More in the munes graven," the

Byrnes said that the agree Herr Direktor

"Nobody Japanese with "grant respect" Ruki.

the pay of ment under which a 1-nation knows how why. They say there and giving them

peace conference will be called were 40,000- Clermons, and Poles Chinese soldiers,

1. 1916. They left and Russian workers.

The Communists also report. not later than May

meets the United States Junist. record and no see. Perhaps another public trial of a war

criminal.

ence that "all states which took we shall never know."

CHILDREN'S CEMETERY

They said that Ko Tien ming, active part in the war shoul We went to the children's een identified as notorious trait.. participate in the pence."

www. Only one of the 1 graves. bora a name.

He said he was not entirely. the agreements

RADIO

TUESDAY, JANUARY 1st 1946. GASTON D'AQUINO (TENOB) FROM THE STUDIO.

ZBW HONGKONG brondenating on frequency of €40 Kilooyolor and from 19.80 to 1.80 p.m., 6.80 to 7.30 p.m. and 9.00 to 11.00 p.m. also on 9.69 } Mogacylon.

B. X. T.

19.80 p.m.-Daily

mary.

Programme Bum-

(19,89 y.m.-A Daure Progenite,

1.00 p.m.-Nows & Announcementa. 3.10 p.m.- Light Organ Music. fre in 1.30 p.m.Bolec Lions Ooohrau's Shuwa, 2.00 p.m. Clone Down.

G.B.

5,80 p.m. "Skyrockets" Douro Or

chostro-ENGA.

0.00 p.m.-The Comedy Harmonists. 6.18 p.m. Violin Sofos by Abort

Baudior.

6.80 p.m. Sidney Torch at the Organ with Jackie Couper and Pat Busnell (Vocal)-ENBA.

1.00 p.m.-London Relay-News. 7.15 p.m. Vaughan William→→

Faulasi on a boms by Thaimaa Tallie.

7.00 p.m.-Studio-Caston D'Aquino (Tenor) socomp, at the Piano by R. OʻNoli Shaw. A1.00 p.m.--New Mayfair Orebestrn. 8.30 p.m.Popular Old Variety Starn Program of Thotr Woil. "known Itenis, 0.00 p.m.- London Relay- Nows. 9.05 mMusio Tiago ENBA 9.88 p.m. Maurion Aluuick and Ea ̈ ́

Uroliestre.

A big wooden cross who was at one time member cast its shadow across the earth of the Puppet Norh China Poli-satisfied with mounds where the murdered in-tical Affairs Council, was execut-under which Rumania and Bol- fanta lux.

ed on Dec. 15 in. Hopți province | gurių will broaden their govern, thought of the day, when from after being sentenced to deathments to gain United State, and the tower window of the prisonby a mass

10,000 British recognition but hopes meeting of gloss across the valley, I watch persons before whom he was on they will substantially improve: 10.00 pm-Drinking Borgs.

la by make a last bid for life.

the "democratic character F 10.15 p.m.-Paul Hobos (Barn) & the It was mid-afternoon of u

Įtrial. 971-

Philadelphia Byzmphony Orchestra. hospital "But certainly," he saider's day.

Ko Tien-ming is allered to those regimes and said he was He

30.45 zame running

Hymphony PR.A.F." Lo all not discouraged by failure to guilty WHITEWASHED CORRIDORS

Theatre Orebostras-ENSA. from the red brick hospital build-have pleaded

11 a wild thing charges against him.--Associat- | aprec Iran. Associated 11.00 pm.-Clono Down. We went through whitewashed in dodging like

trees.

ENBA Makod Three ed Press.

Proguanines corridors lined with green duors. Rong the apple

men followed him.

The nien enr

rocarded specially for Borvios Eutorialu- The door

Euch were locked.

ried guns.

They didn't fire but

mont by the Department of National time he unlocked a door with one

Borvloe Entertainment. of his Jingling bunch of keys, he they chased him to and fro in a ghastly game of hide-and-seek. waited for ine to pass through.

enl the

they caught then locked it again behind me.

In

hip.

We saw the men's ward and the They dragged him back, kicking and struggling, chrough those women's. They were nust And clean, with whitewashed walls double doors.

Reform

left that haunted and vases of yellow flowers upon valley, I looked in at the prison the scrubbed wood tables. Most

of the patients looked dumbly sotiluss. /American truck Happy. At least they had nothing were to fear

drivers

drink

wandering rooms I knew so well,

Crates af empty soft bottles were stacked in the yard. to beat her The barbed wire had been torn

wille a

down and the wooden sentry-

But in one ward a woman waN erying and trying head against the door.

Prese.

Threat Of Industrial War In U.S.

WASHINGTON, DEC. 31.

Lhrough the THE UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS UNIÓN-CLO.—- DECLARED YESTERDAY THAT GENERAL MOTORS MUST NEGOTIATE THE WAGE INCREASES BASED ON ITS ABILITY TO PAY OR "FACE A WINTER OF ALL INDUSTRIAL WAR THAT MAY SPREAD TO AMERICAN INDUSTRY,"

nurse tried kindly but firmly to towers demolished. German chil restrain bor. in her, one saw a dren, one with a Wehrmacht can the tragedy that Germany to- day.

Crazed by bombing, her upon his Baxen head, were making a camp fire of the wooden barriers. children

sho dead,

and eriod

"Allo," he cried as I passed by fought in mad delirium. "Acute

Fum. mister?"-ABSO- neurasthenia," the Herr Direktor "Got any

cinted PreRs.

snid.

Dowm in the collars we went, down the narrow steps so many tred to dentà. The dark vaulia held a chill horror which froze the heart and almost turned the stomach.

It

GENERAL MOTORS, AT THE SAME TIME, SAID THAT

THE IDEA OF ABILITY TO PAY "IS NOT APPLIC ABLE TO INDIVIDUAL BUSINESS WITHIN AN IN- DUSTRY AS A BASIS FOR RAISE IN WAGES BEYUND THE GOING RATE."

Canton Universities Greet U.S. Troops

CANTON, DEC. 31. CANTON UNIVERSITY STUDENTS SENT A NEW YEAR'S GREETING TO AMERICAN FORCES IN CHINA, THROUGH GENERAL WEDEMEYER, EXPRESSING THE BELIEF THAT "YOUR CONTINUED STAY IN CHINA IS NECESSARY TO ASSIST US IN WINNING THE PEACE.".

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The statements were relensed

President Truman's fact- finding Board ended its public hearing and promised a report to President Truman "no hear aa next Thursday as is humay- ly possible."

The President will broadcast This "roport to the nation" on Thursday night and the labour situation will undoubtedly he one of the subjects he plans to [covor.

Rod

DEC

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2nd 1046. PIANO RECITAL BY HARRY ORE FROM THE STUDIU.

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12.80 pm Daily Programma Bum-

mary.

12.87 -Music from the Filma.

1.00 pm News & Announcements. 1.10 p.m.Debroy Somers Band. 1.30 p.m.-Light Orchestral Selections. 2.00 p.m.-Close Down. 6.00 p.m.-Buddy

Foatherston- haugh and Swing Band ENSA

6:30 pm Musical Magazine"→→

ENSA.

0.00 pm-Compositions of Dver-

Bic

6.30 p.m. Margaret Eaves (Sor prano) And Tudor Davies (Tenor) in a Light Orchen- tral Concert. 7.00pm. London Relay-News. 7.15 p.m. De Falla "Three Cor- nered Hat" Suite--New Light Symphony Orchestra cond. by Dr. Malcolm Sargent. 7.80 p.m. Studio Harry Ore at

the Piano. 7.56 p.mViolin Solo by Fritz

Kreisler.

8.00 p. Classical

Hour,

Request

9.00nm London Relay News, 0.05 m-Norman Allin (Bass). and the B.B.C. Wireless Military Band.

GAS CHAMBER "This was the gas chamber," the Herr Direktor was saying.

amall brick-walled room, perhaps 12 by eight feel Broken gas nipes still futted from its walls. The anaces where the kas-tight doors had been were now bricked un. The place was swopt

The National Labour Rela- clean with German thoroughness.

tions Board, which supervises Nothing to show that thousands

strikes votes, has announced it i had suffered and died here.

is without funds and is unabila to take action on some 600 In- Next door was the mortuary- two marble slabs with running

Their expression was in con-, and that you and posterity may bour union requests for strike water, some

chemicals. Jars

of surgical instruments,

trast with opposition recently not be called upon, to fight again votes.

In Now York, the Western We went through more collars, expressed by students at Kun in a foreign country.

pro-Com- "Your work for China is Electric Association, an indepen-. where now piles of potatoes were ming and by somo neşti- stored. - and came to the munist organisations.

greatly appreciated by us, there-dent union, has set Jan. 3 na the furnace chamber. Here the bodies

by forging an unbreaking link date when 19,000 workers In and bean atacked for the ghastly The students' message -- and in the chain of Chinese-Amuri- New Jersey and New York City holocaust which laft behind no others in Canton decided to send can friendship and co-opera- would walk off their jobs. trace. Now oven the anhes had similar ones-said:

tion."

The President of tho Telo- been swept away. Only the two

"You came to China to halp The orthodox tall chimnova zemained chimneya

Kuomilatang phono Workers Union has call formidable vlow prevails in Canton, and ed upon President Truman's worded apocially for Services which carried the smoke of burn us in defeating a ing bodies high above the hospite enemy. This work was nobly Communists have made little to intervono, saying that a sym- Entertainment by the Department roof and the fron brackets on advanced to a glorious conclu-headway. However, polioo round-pathy atriloo by 450,000 tale of National Service Entertain which the furnace doors were slon. Nevertheless, your con-led up more than 100 suspected phone workers throughout the mont.-.

tinued stay in China is noeds Communist Infiltrators during United States was a possibility, Printed and publlahied for the More finxling kura and we came aary to assist us in winning the Christmas wock, and have con- Both the Electric Company

AE Bret they used the peace and in strengthening the tinued on the alert for any un-employees and motor car work-nterstises Limited, by WAT chambers the Herr Direktor was position of this country, so that toward incidents-Aasheiated ora sook a wage incrons at 30 JAMES KLATES, Windsor Hom

[por-cent—Associated Press. Hong Hour ying. Then they began to uso continuous peace will be assured Press.

hung.

out in the light again.

"

0.35 p.m. Strauss-Burlesko"-

Elly Ney. (Piano) and the Berlin State Opera Orchos REA.

"Aida"--Act 0.51.p.m.-Verdi's

IV.

10.30 pm-London Symphony Or-

chestra. 11.00 pmClose Down,

Programmes marked ENSA aro

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