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Armed Russian troups have neempied all importient bunks in the Russian sector of Berlin, arresting the head officials and sacking the seat of the stuffs on the spot. Peter Burchett, Berlia Correspodent of the "Daily E' corras“

reported today.

"This is regarded as a brengh of the four-power agren- ment nud it is believed that a very strong protest was minde at to-day's meeting of the Allied Commanders," Burkett declared. "Thr Baula hitun been closed to the public since June but have been working behind closed doors, eslut lishing the financial position of their depositora," --Reuter

No One But Hitler Wanted War

NUERNBERG, MAR.

THE NAZI MINISTER OF ARMAMENTS AND WAR PRODUCTION, ALII RP SPEER, WILE; ATTEMPT TO PROVE TO THE INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL THAT HE APPEALED TO HITLER TO SUE FOR PEACE IN ALGEST 81% WHEN THAT EFFORT FAILED, HIS DEFENSE WILL

ATTEMPT TO SHOW, THE CONSPIRED TO KID- NIP THE GAST IPO CHEF HEINRICH LER AND TURN HIM OVER TO GENERI, EISEN - HOWER.

plan. and)

Sprer's defense those of Von Papen, Seyss. Firs quart, Neurath and Pritsche Will be aubmitted in the tribunad to- day.

Serious Motor

Betray Comrades

Treason Trial

Continues

EVIDENCE OF HOW THE TWO ACCUSED, SO LEU NG AND TSUI KWOK.CHING, CHARGED WITH HIGH TREASON, ALLEGEDLY TORTURED A 13 OR 1 YEAR-OLD CHINESE GUERILLA AT MONGKOK POLICE STATION IN JUNE, 1943. BUT FAILED TO EXTRACT ANY INFORMATION FROM HIM, WAS GIVEN AT THE CENTRAL SUMMARY MILITARY COURT YESTERDAY BY MARCUS AL- BERTO DA SILVA AND GEORGE VAN BERGEN, WHO WERE THEN BEING HELD AT THE SAME STATION.

IT IS ALLEGED THAT THE TWO ACCUSED WERE ATTEMPTING TO EXTRACT FROM THE BOY INFORMATION AS TO THE ADDRESSES OF A NUMBER OF GUERILLAS #HOSE NAMES ON J SLIP OF PAPER HAD BEEN FOUND IN HIS POC KET AT THE TIME OF HIS ARREST. THOUGH HE WAS CONTINUALLY TORTURED MORNING AND AFTERNOON OVER SEVERAL DAYS, THE WITNESSES RELATED, HE DID NOT GIVE APPLY THE INFORMATION AND DIED UNDER THE TORTURE.

Committal proceedings against dian guard come to the middle the two accused, who are charg cell, next to mine and I eniled ed with 34 overt acts of treason, out to him asking for a drink are being heard by Mr. C. Y. of water. After the guard lei Kwan. Mr. B. S. Smith, waist. I heard the voice of a friend and ed by Mr. J. O'Donovan, is pro- neighbour of mine call out my sevuthap. and Mr. E. S., C. nanu twice. "Marcus, Mareus Brooks is appearing for the two) "Some time after 9 a.m. the Accused,

same

The first witness called yes cell and led along the corridor. terday was Capt. Francis Lee, from the direction of my cell to officer attached to 150 Indian the left, until I was put in the said end inside room. I found there that he had escaped from pri- a Japanese dressed in a Chinese son camp shortly after the sur- black ront and trousers and an A SERIOUS ATOR CRASH render of Hong Kong and had (Continued on Pages 5 and 6) Spier will seek to prove that OCCURRED IN THE EARLY worked in the British Army Aid be persisted palms, POURS

ሰን

YESTERDAY Group throughout

the cerupa even after personil rejection be MORNING AT THE JUNCTION tion. Hiller, to the extent in making | UP WONGNEICHEONG AND

Infantry Brigade, who Accident

The defense cases, with Goer- ings first. are expected to open] on Friday,

B

J. M. Kim, witness sait, was a recording for a ratio brond- GAP ROADS WHEN A IS CWTD.A.A.G. agent in the Colony. WEAPON CAR He was last heard of as living east annuncing the end of the AMERICAN

RIER CRASHED AGAINST A

been arrested by the Gendar- STONE WALL

wir.

WASIL Bronchit-ch,| Two American Naval officers merie some time in September,

commanders so much Din*

1943.

MARCUS SILVA'S

EVIDENCE

Walther former German Army Chief-of-

and a

a British Naval rating were Statf, told Allied interrogators taken to the Queen Mary Hospital that Hitler distrusted his Army in a serious condition. It is be

Bevel that the American offlers -forbade the Fereign Offic: testained fractured skulls.

give them any politieal liTogma- | Two other Naval ratings and tion and kept tens Kurssing Commande were also in the ve about his war plans almost uncle, One.

ratings was til the eve of the march auto even treatment at the dockyard,

Sick Bay

Commando. who was also taken to hospital, suffered minor injuries but was

On May 13, 1943, about at doluined.

am, he was stressed at his resi Investigation placed the time dence by two Chinese and taken

Poland,

TRICKERY Brauchitsch declared hi fail ed to see the trickery behind the 1938 scheme that the army was to make no real war prepara- tions before 1945. Brauchitsch said that he had to rely only

of

the

ant the

The next with was Marcus Alberto da Silva, 30, solicitar, Presiding at 11; Ice House "trout. 1st floor. During the Japusas occupation, witness said. He was residing at No. 9, Tung Cheong Building. Kewloon,

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Franco Says

He Saved Gibraltar

which higher rates for other ranks will come into operation) officers will receive Increases. Government are satisfied, it is understood, that the new rates compare favourably with in- LONDON, MARCH 7, comes which men of similar al- A GROUP OF 80 GERMAN tainments would receive LOWED PRISONERS OF WAR. FOL other professions, capecjally as

BY 10 R.A.P. WITH A SNOW PLOW, STALKsion ni the end.

MEN in the services there is the pen GLED AGAINST GIGANTIC SNOW DRIFTS TO OPEN A Here are examples of the new TO THE 2 RESIDENTS OF RESQUE PATH YESTERDAY Scale: PADDLESWORTH,

(With marriage allowance)

LONDON, MAR. 7. KENT, Flying Offteer at

25 years of THE MADRID SNOWED

RADIO IN SINCE LAST, age 2538 yearly: Army captain' THURSDAY,

DENIAL THAT SPAIN HAD of 27 years £648: Lieutenant-;

ACTIVELY. The snow was reported between) Commander at 30 years 1812;!

AIDED THE pinces in the town, where there $1.000; Colonel about is yours, HEARD HERE TO-DAY, six and even feet deep in most Wing Commander at 35 years AXIS IN THE WAR WAS are no shops.

£1,400 Captain in the Royal Citing the late President The German Monday

prisoners since Navy about 49 years £1,724.

Roosevelt, Mr. Winston Churchill snow on a mile and a half of rond Admirals

have shovelled

At the highest end of the scale. and General Dwight Eisenhower of the Fleet, Field as witnesses to Spain's "neutral- linkine the village with the Can-Marshals and Marstals of the Air ity" which helped the Alles, the terbury-Folkestane raad. a

Force. receive 43,285 basic pay, broadcast said: "Hitler planned to falling and one plus marriage allowance of £365 enter Stain on More snow is

January 10, 1941. according to the making a total annual income of We SAW the intention of the "Evening Stand rd." aid: "It is £8,060.

Dictators to incorporate the Spain snowing so hard that their work

Married lieutenants in the Navy into the Axis and so dominate the may be undone by the morning."

at 28, with four years service gel Mediterranean and with it North run out of bread, coal

The peanle of Faddlesworth had £347 basic pay with £228 mar- tions, as well as the rain they At the same age an army lieuten- these ambitious nians was neither

and rariage allowance, making it £675 Africa and the Near East. one who prevented carrying ugr for cooking Associated ant receives the same as a flying Britain nor the United States.

officer, which is £538. No funda-]

"The one who prevented it was made in pre-war mental change is methods by which the Navy found Generalissimo France Spain did

are not want to enter and did permanent officers. alterations in the army and air enter the war in spite of all cour

cion of the Axis methods of recruitment,

powers withi general there will

their troops on our frontiers ready bo increas-

to break in and march down on for

obtaining

Press

Indonesia Problem Growing Acute

RWBY

- BATAVIA, MAR. 7.

force meth

In

cener

ed opportunities

but there are

WELL-INFORMED CIRCLES HERE BELIEVE THAT Airmen, and no fees will in future

cadels DECISION ON THE FUTURE OF EXO CANNOT BE DELAYED MUCH LONGER.

ве

out

Bot

The broadcast sald Hitler wrote

on

I

commissions from ranks and the Gibraltar porlod

other rank service will be necessary before entry to the to Mussolini on December 30, 1940, army and air force colleges where that "Spain, has refused to colla

told France he was making the will be enlisted soldiers and bogate with the Axis powers.

be charged.

greatest mistake in hla life-wa THIS BELIEF IS STRENGTHENED BY THE DECISION Oresent disparities be- January 10 and for taking Gibral

DISPARITIES REMOVED T have completed all our prepara-

tiona TC- Government had aimed at

tho for crossing Lrontier TO RE-ESTABLISH DUTCIT CURRENCY AS THE tween the services

in February. But the inva and within tar ONLY LEGAL TENDER IN THE NETHERLANDS each service at producing broad son failed to take place and on EAST INDIES AND BY THE CONFIRMATION OF

rquality of treatment, at simplify- February 26, 1941, the broadcast THE REPORT THAT INDIAN TROOPS ARE TO muneration far, the profession of lini "Spain does not want to enter

codes and fixing "suitable re

eald, Hitler avain wrote to Musso- BEGIN EVACUATION IN THE NEAR FUTURE. of the accident at shortly after to the Mongkok Police Station)

arms"

the war and will not enter it. This Added to this is the impres, Clark Kery, Britain's almost two where he was placed in the end-

The Day has been fixed

is most important; because midnight but it was

'clock in the morning before the room on the left-hand side as that negotiations with the envoy in Java, to-day and report to live without private means. No possibility of expelling England special level which will enable an officer have lost for the time being all Naval Ambulance was summoned. one entered the station here when the future of Dr. Sutan Indonesian Central National Com-the

Dutch are expected

to begined on the recent meeting of the great change has been made in in the simplest way from het pos- he was kept the whole day un-Sinhrir's der guard. During the course has been completed and may be

indonesian Cabinet mittee. Dutch sources reported.

existing raten

for junior sessions on the Mediterranean”.— officers commissioned at the age of Associated Press.. +: of the day two Japanese camu,

The meeting, Dr. Sjahrir stat- 20 and 21, but larger increase MADID REACTIONS in, one at a time, and inspected the last attempt at a peaceful ed, gave him full responsibility are provided about the age when Ronie, March 7. him from head to foot.

for negotiating with the Dutch, a man may reasonably be expected' Je settlement, The Italian news agency Anga' later learned that they were

Madrid, March 7. Some quarters, taking into Authorities on the future status to marry.

Reacting to the thres-power de The cae-time Grand Admiral reported that a five-hours strike Ozawa and Nakashima.

of Java.-Routex.

claration advising Spain to dis- consideration the extremist feel- had been ordered in Venice for, Raeder asserts that his fellow today by the local committee of

ing, predict that bloodshed is!

pense with General Franco, and establish an interim, government, officers can confirm that he ad national liberation

in

Inevitable, whatever the out- protest

at least one newspaper yesterday vised against war with Britain. again the allogul failure ta

"About 8 p.m. I was inken come of negotiations unleas

offered the explanation the Soviet Union, and finally the purge Fascists from state, ofices from this room and placed in it is an unqualified acceptance

that it Spain was friendly with the Axis United States.

and private business.-Associated solitary confinement in one of of the Indonesian Republic.

it was equally friendly with tho allies.

on rumours,

He said that he was overruled when he sought to spare Warsaw in 1939 and that; for some political reasons fit- ler insisted that the campaign! was to be concluded.

Rneder insisted that the Ja- Press. panese admirals left him unin-i formed about their plans to at- tuck Pearl Harbour.Assucint- cd Press,

"Missouri" To Take Late Envoy's Body

Washington, March 7. The body of Mehmet Ertgun, Turtish Anibassador to the Unit ed States who died in Washing- ton in November 1944, will be taken to his homeland

American battleship Mishel

State Department said to-day.

it

the

Because of war time conditions

STRIRE IN ROME

TRIED CAJOLLERY Witness continued:

the cells. Next morning an In-

Truman Calls For A Moral Code

OHIO, MAR. 7.

PRESIDENT TRUMAN TO-DAY CALLED FOR RELIGI

OUS SUPPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ATOMIC ENERGY UNDER A HIGH MORAL CODE" TO RESCUE A "SİCK" WORLD. -

Informed British cireita and Dr. Bahrir's spokesman-laji Arve Salem-interpret Dr. Sjah- rir's mandate £9 making the recognition of the Republie the aim of discussions and not a pro requisite to negotiations.

(Continued on Page 6)'

ut

Shore Guns Open Fire

A

On French Cruiser

(By Stan Swinton).

ABOARD THE FLAGSHIP EMILE BERTIN OFF

HAIPHONG, MA

7.

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Wo

Publication, even in abbreviat el form, of the tri-partita dc- claration, constituted a rare event in the lives of Spanish nowæfaper readers. Previously, auch

-Anfor- matjon, affecting Spain directly Was suppressed.

Dr. Sutan Sjahrir is now engag ed in the difficult task of trying COASTAL BATTERIES OPENED FIRE ON THIS to suit the many shados of Indone-

The interest of the people in sian political avialon in the com-

FRENCH CRUISER YESTERDAY MORNING AS IT the Anglo-French-American decla- position of hie now Cabinet.

STEAMED WITH OTHER FRENCH WARSILIPS ation was evidenced in the quick It is understood that he may OFF THE ENTRANCE TO HAIPHONG HARBOUR, in the working class district wher

sale of newspapers, particularly quarters of the indonesian nation

visit

Jogjakarta-head- AWAITING CHINESE PERMISSION TO LAND A the vendors were sold out early list movement-before the week- THE TROOPS WERE INTENDED

FORCE OF MORE THAN 20,000 TROOPS.

In the morning. However, the end for further consultations with

TO PEACEFULLY HOW Ders did not refer to the THE PRESIDENT TOLD THE FEDERAL COUNCIL OF the Indonesian President, Dr. RELIEVE CHINESE GARRISONING NORTHERN.

- Franco correspondence THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST IN AMERICA TILAT

Eockárno,

INDO-CHINA...

which was cited, but copies of the The forthcoming evacuation of

lettore and documents and the full THE DEVELOPMENT OF ATOMIC ENERGY HIS Indian

who constituto

Guna from an unidentified attempted to land at the port buted by the United States Em- text of the declaration distri- troops, LEFT MANKIND “IN THE DOORWAY TO DES about two-thirds of the British battery shelled this flagship which the Chinese have been TRUCTION OR ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE forcos in Java and Sumatra has which had Gen. Jacques Le- occupying and which the French bassy, reached many parsons. GREATEST AGE IN HISTORY."

raised the aucation: Who will take Clore, Commander of

The Cathollo nowaniper "Ya”. French are supposed to take over un over the Allied commitments here forces, aboard, but they missed, der the agreement announced on said in an editorial that “it is was impossible to return the "Only a high moral code," he anco" again are at work, Truman concerning the safety of refugere by more than a mile. Reports Feb. 28. body to Turkey at the time of said, "ean master this now power declared that they create situations and the evacuation of Japanese? roaching the flagship said ond

quite clear that in more ar Jone Erigun's death

of the universe and dovelop it for demanding a moral and spiritual

The fighting was reported to Ings terms of courtcev were em

private conversations and write The Missouri became famous as the common good."

CLASH WITH JAPS

landing craft also was fired on have continued until noon, when awakonite in the life of this in- the ship aboard which the Japa- **If nese sunronder was signed in zigane world is to survive, the dividual and in

It is estimabed that 30,000 and that a French sailor was the warships withdrew, leaving nothing else and the ordeal

"Circumstances power which man has the world.!!

Wounded seriously... fugbes and a greater part of two

huge fires in a blasted ammuni- sult was no other than to enable Tokyo Bay. The bottleship will acquired through atomic energy Unless church forces Provide Japaneau diylafors are scattered Hanol, capital of Tonkin-China

Halpheng is the port for tion dump.

us to end the war without our be accompanimi by destroyer must- be matched by spiritual the mo escort on the trin to Turkey. strength of

The dispatch to Chungking being disturbed in the least," said a greater magnitude." the President inuen. Kopublican JAV. Now It was expected that the

continued, two Netherlands News Agency and the seat of the unrecognised blamed the fighting on techul- the paper. Ascelated Erosz. Mis The President called upon the are headed for the dinastar we reported to-day from a reliable Viet Nam republic cal difficulties connected with Bourl will call ata number of forces of "decenev and righteous would deserve.

Medkerranean ports after salling now" to make full use of their

source that the felanders of Soom At Chungking, a Central Nows the transfer of the port to to Latanbul,

The President included an ap bega, one of the Netherlands Early Agency dispatch and five French control. It guld diffent war-won freedom to have a world boal for food abaring to save Indies group, east of Java, are French warships bombarded ties arose at the last minute and Returning the bodies of diplo bereft of "threats of new con the starving millions in Europe,

THE WEATHER fighting "the" "Japanese." mats to their homelands

now terror and destrue, Asia and Afrien. - warehios is a diplomatic courtesy

clash

have Chinese troops at Halpheng on it was decided to delay the WAL stated

To-day's forecast:-Cloudy with ***“Of course we cannot feed them taken place near the Japanese Wednesday, and, both sides auf- transfer for a day or two fresh masterly ladd of lone standing. However, gru! HEADED TO DISASTER." he said. ""bur you can to concentration area, S

fered casualties in a hot, brief Meanwhile, an investigation was de Yesterday a temperaturer- sere usually are assigned to such Asserting that the force of long way to share our food by Dr. Shitan: Sabrir, Indonesian exchange

reported underway, Associated Maximumt: 69,8,degrees al 11.m. mission-Associated Press, I "selfishness and grend and Tutoler, eating, loss. Ansoolated Press, Premiori called on Sir, Arumbad The dispatch sald the French Press.

Minimum 60.55 degrees st.11 pm

120

Ing.

the council of