1946-09-02 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1946.

NAZI CHIEFS' LAST DAYS Amazing Composure Of Prisoners

Goering Cracks

Grim Joke

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(By Eric Bourne, Reuters Special Correspondent)

Nuernberg, Sept. 1.

Britain, France, Russia and the United States, who have yet to decide whether the execution of any of the top Nazis eventually found guilty by the Nuernberg war crimes tribunal will take place in public may be faced with a Rus- sian demand, and probably one from America too, that the presence of members of the pub- lle at least in the shape of the press is the best guarantee of faith to Hitler's victims that jus- tice has finally been done.

How and where the death sentences will be carri-

ed out are also matters yet undecided.

berg guol. however

"circus." such have

here

a

Grim Joke

Only this week, he cracked a grin foke with his fellow prison- ers that "They will hang us all except Speer and him they will

The opinion is shared by rea- in history and to preserve Nazi ponsible circles

that the ideas in the hearts and minds of condemned will be hung in Nurem German youth.

There in no likelihood of anything like

na lider wodd liked to

to stage. Just seven years to a day after the

German armies crashed into Poland, Hermann Geering and 20 other major Nazi prisoners on trial here are beginning their long- ly wait for the judgment of Ubassador and Foreign Minister, to- United Nations.

Last Words

MEDITERRANEAN FLEET CRUISE

Valella, Sept. 1. Notices exhibited aboard British mon of war here any that “units of the Mediter ranean Flock will leave for a manmer cruise of auproxim- ately four wonka duration on Sept.

18,

Unconfirmed reports stated that the criar wordd be in the neighbourhoo

of Piraeus..

the

The date fized coinciden with the return of Admiral Sir Algervan. Willis, Comman→ der-in-Chief, nofter consulta Boma in London – Associated

Pran.

Control of the Allied

Council, which will direct how the Ben- tences hall he carried out.

let off to build a place where the 11634

will hang us."

Libbentron, Hitler's former Am-

They returned to their cells to? day, more than nine months after

their trial began, after uttering through the microphone in the dock their last words in answer to the charges at their dour placing the responsibility for the deaths of ten million men in combat and of twelve million civilians who perished under racial extermina tion plans or were worked,

beaten or starved to

to death in German war factorics and

concentration enraps. Observers

visiting the court this past week for the first time have been amazed at the com. posure of the prisoners.

Watching them chatting. Joking laughing among themselves, a newcomer ja stuggered that

and

near the end of the trial. Which for many of them leads only to

hangmen's rope, the

גינון

.

should be able to show such ap parent indifference to their plight.

For

however, those.

whe these months have seen through how ready Hitler's mey can com fess to the most hideous crimes and shume fut duplicity without flicker of emotion. The spectacle in not so difficult to comprehend

No Longer A Jester In bodily health some of them are better today than when after living for so many years on the fat of other people's lands they first entered their sparsely furnished cells more than a year

ago.

"Goering's dove-grey medalloss Luftwaffe tunic and breaches may hangfelds cow but he is a

lister

entir

Five

day entertains little hope of ca canine denth and occasionally talks gigomily about bis "probable The prisoners' privileges will be increased alightly during the re-them. cest..before the final judgment. which will last approximately three weeks.

Whilst waiting judgment, and sentences, the rented will be al- owed for the first Line to talk together while at exercim under the eyes of German-speaking guards.

The tribunals, considering the enuent for wives to vialt them.

Long Judgment

Greece Just A British Colony!

Spotlight On Greece

Washington, Sept. 1.

Well informed observers bo- leva that today's ploblacite on

the

NOTICE

Government Wholesale Vegetable Market, Kowloon.

Registration of Purchasers.

will monarchy in Greeco give a majority sufficiently. The wholesale Vegetable large for King George to have Market, 582. Nathan Road, no hesitation about returning to Kowloon (former premises of. Grice. But Washington is Oriental Tobacco Co.) will open alarmed over information In on September 15th, dicating that Greek guerilla 2. Sales will be conducted by forces are receiving arms and public auction. Purchasers and

ammunition from

and

истоза

tho

Albanian frontier and have been bidders must register in advance. assured of reinforcements from 3. Applications for registration the Albanian

Yugoslav will be received at the Market volunteers".

Office at above address daily Graece regarded from August 28th, to September United States diplomatic 7th. (Sunday excepted) from

"spearhead" of 9 nm. to 5 p.m.

Moncow, Sept. 1. As allegation that the Greek Government "has entirely lost its independence and Grecco in

being rapidly converted into a British cu.on

made o TYAR

today by the İstanbul correspondent of the in Communist

"Pravda. party organ The artick declared that the Russin's drive to the Dardanol-

circles as the