1946-03-22 — Page 3

THE CHINA' MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCII 22, 1946.

A SMILING MURDERER

"I

Veterans

Put In

The Hold

Am A Gentleman

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Statement

Gesture Hong Kong

In The Dock

PARIS, MARCH 21.

THE 49-YEAR-OLD DR MARCEL PETIOT WAS SMILING BROADLY WHEN HE ENTERED THE COURT HERE THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE THIRD DAY'S HEAR- ING OF CHARGES AGAINST HIM OF MURDERING 27 PEOPLE DURING THE GERMAN OCCUPATION. SEEMED SURPRISED, HOWEVER, WHEN HE CAUGHT SIGHT OF THE CROWDS OF PRESS AND CAMERA. MEN, WHO EVEN OVERFLOWED INTO THE DOCK.

Honolulu, March 21. Forty-four wounded Ha-HE wallan veterans of Japanese ancestry who fought in the U.S. Army from Italy to Franco said to-day that they forced to travel in the hold of the transport "President Hayes" while civilians occupi- ed staterooms and cabins.

All of Ulum deyared they were buffer at the treatment Trevived nt Camp Stoneman, California. In Washington, the State Department spokeatum

formal complaint Haid "

i made, the War Department will tak nelion."

It is likely that the sourt will adjourn to the accused's house to morrow to Inspect The "death chamber" and other grim fittings, where he is said to have disposed of his victims' bodice,

his home

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Paris

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Aft Confured

At Far East Food Talks

U.S. Assures. Turkey

Istanbul, March 21. Reports here 10-day said that the long_interview_be- tween the Turkish Prime Minister and the Unked States Ambasandor, was Rieved to be connected with namuraners given by Washing- ton to Turkey.

bo-

The meeting tool picos on Monday-Reuter,

COMMUNISTS IN GOVERNMENT

Rangoon, March 21. Lord Killearn, who has ar- rived in Singapore and who| has beon charged by the Bri- | tish Government to investigato

Ottawa, Mar. 21. A member of the Canadian the critical food situation in South-East Asia with the view that the Canadian Government Parliament asserted yesterday to suggest argent relief mea- service is hot through and. to Rold a through" with Communists and sures, has decided conference of the principal Conumunist, sympathisers, British authorities In South- East Asia, it was announced here to-day.

Sclon Low, head of the Social Credit group in Parlia- ment, made a statement in con- nection with the Moscow- The conference, it is expected, directed espionag network--

men and their wives, informers of the Gestapo, "with pieces ni rubber tubing filled with lead," nt the home of one of his comrades. He told the court that four men and Ave women among his vic tims were "bad Frenchmen `and Petiot stated during questions Frenchwomen,"

Their money,

he that he and his resistance group sald, was still in the pockets of Nine of the Jen kail

last provided a man named Guiertnoy, their e arms or legs. Dne veteran was victim No. 3, who disappeared their thes, or hidden under will be attended by the governors ¦ uncovered in the dominion, parniyael from the waist down. | fium

coat lapela. The court decided that the suit Hong Kong, representatives of the government of Prime Minister

of Ceylon, Malaya, Borneo and He said that the "Liberal, One of them salt that dis- January, 1942, with false papers enses concerning Pouraged Hawallans have been to go to Argentina, and that he which are piled on une sick of the representative in Bangkok and by King stands

the victims government of India, the British

charped to-day waiting in San Francisco fur had received code letters fram

court, should be examined at once. British military and foralen ser with gros negligence in tho as long as two months.

the

3 Der he arrived ite Ruenos Aires,

vice representatives from French,conduct of affairs as a result Indo

-China and the Netherlands of which apy rings, have grown The President of the court said

Eust Indies.

up in this County," the Frenen pane had coblesd

The object of this prefitainary Low

onl whether Buenos Aires and no trace could

conferenes i to rapa en agenda thero tad be an investigation be found of the mon, to which the

for the main Singapore confer- accused retorted that the Argen

ence, and will open on ur about of the background of auch em- tin was "well known

ployees, before they were ven to bi

March 25, German Colony,"

The main Singapore conference "responsible positions and hey During to-day's exchanges, the

is expected to begin in the azide responsibititica

Press. of April.--Reuter. counsel representing the relatives of one of the victims, suid: "Every than you mention someone who can testify to the truth of what you say, he has either disappeared

dead. When the ur in

counsel for the relatives demanded again to day that he rive names in evidence. Petiot rolled back his cuffs with an elegant gesture and killed.” સાહેદો

dramatically: "I am a gentle. He said that 1 of the Nisei man, and when i have said Nunerring were assigned to the sick bay once, I du. not change my mind. while the others were put into (Yesterday he refused to give the the troop hold which had a 70-es his-associates, man capacity, He vise spoke of kraniemenke made for the com- fort of the Nisei. – Associated Proas.

The servicemen vning their complaints to the newspapers The spokesman Jor The San Francisen Aung No.: Kimbari.. tion Ollice said that the accom modatin on the Tromsport was "for supertor in these provided, to theatrends of meu already

returned honte.“

his

Bad Franchmen Petlot told the court that he and his organisation executed two

In Germany To-Day:

REAL DISASTER YET TO COME

(By Boris Ridel)

BERNE, MARCH 21. PASTOR MARTIN NIEMOELLER, 54-YEAR-OLD GERMAN PROTESTANT LEADER, WHO SPENT SEVEN YEARS IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS UNDER THE NAZI RE- GIME, TOLD MEʼTO-DAY: "THE REAL DISASTER IN GERMANY IS YET TO COME. I AM CONVINCED THAT THE REAL MISERY IN THE GERMAN SITUA- TION IS ONLY JUST BEGINNING TO LOOM UP. THAT THE REÁL CATASTROPHE OF THE GERMAN POSITION HAS NOT YET REVEALED ITSELF. "ONLY VERY FEW PEOPLE HAVE GRASPED THE FORE- BODING THAT ONE DAY OUR NATION OF 60,000,000 PEOPLE WILL FIND ITSELF IN UT- TER DARKNESS, IN A COMPLETE VOID."

When the court resumed, the clerk began opening five suit cases, produced a dinner jacket and other clothes belonging to viclient

Adrien, named Petiot claims to have executed as Whom

n collaborator,' but a search of and further search of the remain- two suitenses revealed no

money, ing three suitcases was abandoned after the publle prosecutor anid: "I did not say the money was sown in the clothes of these specific

victims. I said the victims had money on them when they were

The court was impressed by the Facility with which Pelin identifled the suitcases in the great pile.

For the first time since the trial began he asked permission to sit down.

During the questioning about

nine Jewish victims, various coun- els referred to them by various names by which they had been known in Paris, and Petiot said: "Please refer each one by the name by which I knew

them, otherwise I become all confused." The trin will be resumed to- morrow afternoon,--Reutor,

U.S. Still Refuses

the

Associated

New Chairman Of Soviet Presidium

Moscow, March 21.

Nikolai Shvernik, 58, is the new chairman of the Prosi

dentium of the Supreme Soviet. He has been first

- vice-chairman since February 1, 1944.

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