1946-03-28 — Page 3

Russians Already Leaving

Karaj, Persia, Mar, 27'

Although tho British Em- bassy in Teheran has not been officially informed by the Per- Bian Government or the Soviet Embassy, the evacuation of Rus. aian troops from Persia has al- In ready started in several ureas of North Persia.

A train is expected to-night to evacuate Russian troops, and

It is already packed for the in journey.

Russian officials are waiting

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1946.

CANNIBALISM NO CRIME

2

Not An Offence In English Law

Discovery In Trial Of

Of Japs

1

Sydney,, March 27.

the English Criminal Code, eating a man was no crime. Army legal officers discovored this when they were ask- ed to confirm a death sentence passed by an Australian War Crimes Court on a' fap cannibal.

the law books, there was no procedent: never before in British legal history had a man been charged with can-

nibalism.

The death sentence had been sive to civilised humanity it calls

for severe punishment.

"The Criminal Code desis only part of with offences that aro civilised society.

at the railway station. They кау that seven wagona left passed on First-Lieutenant Take- north last night taking away hika Tazaki, a brutal soldier- Russian equipment

savage who had feasted on the an Australian sold'er flesh of killed in action.

Travellors who have arrived in Teheran by road from, Bagh dad, vla. Kazvin and Karaj, report that they saw Russian tanks halted by the roadside, apparently engaged in the move to the north-west, from Karaj The column had halted for a meni.

But despite his conviction under the Federal Parliament's War Crimes Act of 1945, Tazaki could not hang, said legal experts.

Tuzaki's plea that he had been starving, was driven to canni- balism by sheer necessity, had to be listened to.

"But anyone committing such. 8. disgusting, act as cannibalism would not escape punishment bo- cause Common Law covers all offences against publle decency.

"Where preceded by killing, cating of the human flesh is not unknown to English law.

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Deal, March 27.

Swedish ship want Gground on the Baldsvis Sands five miles east of Deat" yesterday." The Walmer. life- doat was launched at 2 p.m. in answer to calls, from the

hip.

Visibility was restricted to two miles and nothing could be seen of the stranded vessel from the shore. Associated Press.

Churchill Back Home

SEVEN HOURS

Stockholm, March 27, ¦

At nine a,m," one day there was a bere pios of anow-covered ground on the outskirts of Blockholm, Seven hourH fater, on the same spot, stood horasa complete with roof, front door, Fidialora and lass windows-Bwaden's fabricated wooden "Portal.“

pre

This rupid' building feat was witnessed by Bir Victor Maliet, British Minister,in Stockholm, and members of the British delegation negotialing the possibla par chase of tenk of thousands of houses,

Tisse Bwedish Houses new built in some dozen or more different modals, with one two storeys. The aimplest and one mat Tiarly proximating the type which Lahe British delegation have in mind, la a single storey ribbed wooden house, bullt on a concrete foundation, with tile roof and painted with two good ccate of creaIn- coloured all pufert.

COST 20

United The woman occupier was cooking a to-night dinner on a four-fat gas stove in af. with Mrs. Churchill and hin br 12ft, kitchen, which has three roomy daughter, Mrs. Sarah Oliver, Incapboards, a refrigerator and two wash- the liner "Queen Mary" from basins with a pressed-steel sink, The

Southampton, Mar, 27. Mr. Winston Churchill, form- "In such cases the almost over-er British Prime Minister, who Soviet troops which wero So his death sentence was cont-whelming temptation of starva- has been visiting the

years all with tion, has not saved the accused States, arrived here check post two mated to five stationed at a

from conviction for, murder." miles south of Karai, 20 miles hard labour.

At Exeter Assizes in 1884 the north-west of Teheran and the

Smaster and mate of the yacht nearest point to the Persian

Mignonette were sentenced. New York. by Russian capital occupied

hanging for murdering and cat- ing a 17-year-old cabin boy named troops, have been withdrawn.

Soviet guards at alt railway

Parker.

Four Men Eaten stations and tunnels, along a stretch of about ten miles from

mikes Ghamsar,

east 75 Teheran, to Firuzkul, have been replaced by Persians.-Router.

of

For 21 days the three men had

York on Jan. 14

Mr. Churchill arrived in New and after a atay at Niami, Florida, visited President Truman.

To Sydney Senior Crown Pro- secutor 'King's Counsel T. Crawford the criminal aspect of the case

was interesting, the punishment surprisingly light.

Offonco Against Decency Sald Crawford, K/C.: "Although there is no specific section of

Anked hore to-night to com-. any Crimes Act in English Law been cast away in an open ment on the mixed reactions in dealing with, the consumption of after their ship faundered in human flesh, the act is so repul-storm 1,600 miles off Cape of Good the United States to his speech

Hope,

at Fulton University, Missouri, Demperate with hanger, the mate Mr. Winston Churchill declared: had taken bis kalfe, plunged it "I thought there would not be into the boy's throat an he lay unity but I was quite sure it helpless in, the bottom of the boat, would be all right," TRvenously

his flesh.

Asked whether he wished to Brutal. Albert Pierce was transported to see a definite military alliance Hobart as a Youth, was Inter between the United States and transferred to Macquarie Harbour Britain, he said: "I have dealt for crimes

with all that. a convict, With seven others he stole a boat and exerped by sea.

Inside Facts Of Pacific Sub. War

WASHINGTON MARCH 27.

THIS IS A STORY THE JAPANESE WOULD HAVE GIVEN A FORTUNE TO HEAR — THE INSIDE FACTS ABOUT HOW THE U.S. NAVY RAN THE "WOLF -PACK SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN WHICH HELPED

DRAIN THE LIFE OUT OF JAPAN'S WAR MA- CHINE.

IT WAS A GIGANTIC NAVAL VICTORY, BUT UNTIL THE WAR WAS OVER IT COULD BE MENTIONED ONLY IN THE TERSEST ANNOUNCEMENTS OF SINKINGS THE UTMOST SECRECY WAS ESSEN- TIAL TO ITS SUCCESS.

Only recently has the public night surfaco attacks. Sub been informed as to the magni-marines were able to surface tude of the war which for more safely in daylight when radar than three years was waged un-showed that no enemy vessels der the Bes. Now the strategy or aircraft were near. They and tactics of that war can be could lie in wait for enemy explained in detail.

vessels, then when they appear- No sooner had the Japrated on the horizon observe their tacked Pearl Harbour than the course and zig-zag pattern and navy lunged at the enemy with strike accurately after dark. the only American weapons ther In the last six months of the available for affensive action war the hardest problem was to ---submarines,

find targets, for the stream of At first the subs ranged the vessels over the once rich hunt- entire Pacific Ocean, with or-ing grounds had been reduced ders to execute "unrestricted to a mere trickle. submarine warfare." sinking The success of the submarine Japanese vessels on sight the warfare was a nasty surprise way the Japanese and Germans to the Nipponese.

When our able to concentrate their

the war.

berbulous,

as

convict

When food ran out he started plotting murder and frightened off three of the party who return- ed to Macquarie Harbour rather than be eaten.

One by one the other four were killed and eaten.

Piorso reached Derwent safely. No one guessed he had eaten his comrade-escapeca,"

.But- several months laten he made another break, again became hungry, killed, and ate, his com- panion.

This time he surrendered, con- fessed to the murders and canni- balism, was hanged at Hobart.

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Ilving-mom, lore, by zac, I light and airy,

The walls comoriss wooden planking a lever eftearthaank, a tenuisch envite Alled.) tn with sawdust and shavings, another layer of cardboard, and then 1wo-inch planking out Ja ribbed panels to make · the exterior of the

hopae

There is a Food, roomy hat, two larko for parents and are for bedroome, ose children. The family eats at a table in one corner of the kitchenDownstairs In Boller-rod, # the cellar there

decorative.

Jaundry room,

more

with bathtub In the corner, and amall larder.

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It was such a house na - this „ihat a team of It men erected in seven hoars,

costs about £100.

he said: "I think it is more pro- "I want us to go on as we are bable that nothing will be pub only more so.”

lished while I am alive. But you! Questioned about the possible must not take that as my final publication of his war memoirs, decision."-Reuter.

An

DEAF WILL. 'HEAR'. WITH THEIR EYES

New York, March 27. instrument which enables the totally deaf to "hear with their eyes" was demonstrated recently in New York by the Boll Telephone Laboratorios.

A man born deaf, and until recently unable to speak clearly. because he had no conception, of words sound, held a rabid fire conversation with members of

audience.

Dr. Evatt On The Soviet-Iran Issue

Canberra, March 27.

&

Dr. Herbert Evatt, Australian Minister for External Affairs, replying to the international affairs debate in the House of Representatives to-day, said: "I ask for no special treatment for Soviet Russia but urge that it should be accorded the same treatment as wartime partners. "Her case is entitled to the fullest consideration, and in- vestigation -- her contribution to the overthrow of Nazism demands this.

States the other.

"For that

as means of

du-

how

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He gained this profielency in a

few short months by using the

200

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His lesson began with simple Bounds like "E-E-E"

and "100. 00.00."

These elementary sounds of speech appear on a screen, some what as in television, and take the form of s single band of Aluorescent Hght.

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were sinking our ships. This The submarine victory, how- order was part of the over-all ever, Was Not won without

When apoken quickly, however, war plan prepared before the severe losses. Forty-nine, of

EE) and (00-00-00" merga outbreak of hostilities. • the United States submarines

to form the word "You," and the Torrific Tolt

which, oporated in the Pacific

"The worst catastrophs which tions Trusteeship System will be combination looks curiously like a "Wolf-pack" operations began were sunk, and these had a In 1944. These attacks by sub-complement of 386 officers and could befalt the world at present considered appropriate by the palm tree blowing against the words take other marines working as a team had 18,288 men. Of these, 11 officers would be to find that suddenly Australian Government that doca wind. Other

129 an unbridgeable not designate Australia as the distinctive shapes.. long been planinest, but until and 157 men later were found there

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I have der Australian law. reason

ches that of the Instructor. driven from their bases in the sunk 11 Japanese, ships, In the

drawn. particular___attention to The Trusteesh System per- Although the new device has southwest and cantral-Pacific, next year they sank 283 more. they had to draw in their com- During 1943 they sank 490. In the need for the fullest use of mits fortification and designs- not yet reached the state of-de- velopment where it can be piscod munication lines until the only 1944 they sent down 989. By the the machinery of the United Nation of strategie arc

tions. There can and should be a "This debate hna confirmed on the market for the benefit of route left to them was west of end of the war, they had dis- careful impartial, investigation, the claim that Australia's stand- schools for the deaf and similar the Ryukyu Islands and the patched 2,637 vessels, a total

made to reduce the laboratory. Philippines.

tonnage of 10,689,800. Of these if necessary on the spot, of all ing and prestige in interna institutions, every effort is being submarines were ships, 216 were warships, com facts involved. The United National affairs has never buen nadasin to commercial form.

at-prising 31 per cent of all Jations machinery should not be high.

"The aeparate influence of tacks in that restricted area, panese warships sunk during this on the nation in the dock Australie and other Dominions they took a terrifle toll.

The Japanese Increased the American losses to enemy sub-or securing a quick debating far from detracting from the used point. It should be used with Influence of the United Kingdom cacort for their convoya, m-marines proveil; their sonar and radar grave anxiety but they were the sense of full responsibility and the British Commonwealth, for the detection of underseas small by comparison.

in an endeavour between men of adds greatly to that influence, attackers and bolstered the air Americans lost a total of 492 goodwill to ascertain all facts particularly in the matters of cover of convoya by using land ships as a result of Japanese and devise long term solutions principle in which there is a late Fredent, he announced but be

differences, strong common agreement." based planes all along their and German submarine action, of international

Reuter. route.

a total tonnage of 2,309,947. Of based on law and justico," But the US Navy improved these, 02 were naval vessels, tions Organisation may do, it

Whatever the United Na too and steadily raised the with a tonnage of 169,947, monthly totala of sinkings. In At first the submarine fleet ia cssential to guard the security October, 1944, tho Japs had was spread thin all over the of the South-west Pacile. In marine war, 117 of their ships effect of the submarines every with the United Kingdom and pred the invention of heat-reflect the New York handquarters of an indepen their worst month of the sub- Pacific. The Japanese fait the defence, there must be the closest cooperation, not only

being sunk.

where, even close to their home Development of the electric shores. Not knowing where the New Zealand but with our ing wallpaper torpedo, which leaves no wake Americans would strike next other peace loving Pacifle neigh- and so cannot be easily detected, they had to spread their anti-bours, especially the United eir anti Bartos, which, in a period of made underwater attacks more submarine defenses.

supreme necessary, helped 118′ The U.S. started with only { deadly. The greatest scientife improvement, however, was in 39 "font type" submarines arst to hold this country and

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