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Gas Co. GOERING CHEATS GALLOWS Briton

Showroom Robbed

(By Margaret Bradbury) The Hong Kong Gas Company lost $6,000 in a daring daylight robbery shortly after 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when two men held up a shroff carrying the money from the Glou- cester Arcade to offices on the first floor of the building.

The shroff, Wong Chung, was bound, gagged and flung Into a lavatory half-way, between the ground and first floors. Here he was found at 6.20 pāri. by Mr. H. V. Ardy, Assistant- Distribution Superintendent of the company...

Wong Chung said that he had not seen either of the two men before. One of them, he nold, carried a revolver. One wore

khaki clothes, the other was in a Chinese black suit.

Central

Line Busy!

Commits Suicide In His Cell Almost At The Zero-Hour

MEMO FOR MOVIE FANS

Johannesburg, Oct. 16, Peerthai Ebrahim, Maley ginger-beer manufacturer in Cape Town, whore 80th child is expected shortly, says:

I think European people spend too much time cinemaa."

When he takes his family "¿for a picnic, Ebrahim has to hire a motor truck-Asso- ciated Press,

'Why Not?'

rela-

Captain Gammans said that the House was entitled to know what representations had been made by the Prime Minister to the American Government on this subject.

Ten Other Nazis

Executed

(By Thomas Ready)

nernberg, Oct. 16. Hermann Goering, No. 2 man of the dead Nazi re gime, cheated the noose by taking poison in his cell last night, but 10 other Hitler hench men plunged to their deaths on the gallows early today in, expiation of their war crimes Col. B. C. Andrus, security chief for the prison, made this announcement relative to Goering: “Goering was not hanged. He committed suicide at 1045 o'clock last night by taking cyanide of potassium. He was discovered at once by sen- tinels who watched and heard him make an odd noise, and twitch. A sentinel called a doc- tor and chaplain who were in the corridor and who found him dying. There were pieces of glass in his mouth and an odor of potassium on his breath."

NEWSPRINT DIFFICULTIES

The "China, Mail" "repreta the reduction in the size of the paper this morning. Netos print difficulties the pro- tracted delay in arrival of a vetel" bringing supplies from Canada," and inability to ** secure newsprint of the dp

propriate size in the local market are responsible, Wẹ expect to be in a position to revert to normal early next Locek

Goering Did The

Impossible

(By G. K. Hodenfield)

Shoots Robber

mang

(By Paul Pry") Awakened just before dawn yesterday by

coming into hus room, Chief Junk Insper- tor Francis Brett fired three shots at the intru- der. The man managed to get away, but not un- scathed. He was picked up a little later with bullet in his stomach.

Brett, who lives at 2 Ventris Road (beind Wongnelcheinr: Road) was awakened. arKINÉ: 4.30 am by the man, who in- advertently made a noise in the bedroom. As soon as he saw that Brett was awake, he tarna and fled, hotly pursued by Brett who, after warning him, opened fire with his pistol:

He fired one shot as the man ran through the bedroom missed, which is understand in the case of a man just roused from a deep sleep. He took another shot at the man 'as he flung himself down the

estarily

London, Oct. 15.- Considerable difficulty was

The Prime Minister, experienced by the. Gas Com- pany in getting through to the Mr. Clement Attlee, told Police, Mr. Ardy said he start- the House of Commons

Nuernberg, Oct. 16 ed trying to get through on the today that he had no in- beneath his blankets and were about to mount the scaffold. I cheated the gallows in the closing and missed again.

"Goering's hands did not go | shout "Heil Hitler" as he was An actor to the last, Goering telephone at about 5.20 o'clock but could get no response from tention of publishing the not observed going to his mouth. He made the most commotion, minutes of the last act by swalAs the robber Kept on telephoning until 5.58 President Truman and on to learn how he could come you to the one time Reichsma felt through onto the ground Police Station. He currespondence between An investigation is now going shouting bitterly and defiantly owing potassium cyanide, and poised himself on a windowsil on to learn how he could con- the Bolsheviks will handle thus created a breath-taking new Brett fred again and the man

mystery, p.m. and then, still getting to himself on the situation ject to daily and rigorous reply, tried the Upper Levels

He was the only one to speak shal and Luftwaffe boss managed thought he had missed once station, Central · Division.

in Palestine.

searches, both of his clothes after the hood was being placed to conceal the vial of poison for a This, in reply to a question

and person. djege

over to his head mentioning year and half, or alternatively, more, but a trail of blood lead "The cyanide was contained something about... “Adele, my who smuggled it to him in his ing up the hillside showed the Here, although he pointed out by Captain Gammans, Conser-in a small cartridge case similar beloved wife."

g closely guarded jail cell, - were | Junk Inspector that he had rot that he was trying to report that vative, was greeted with Op- to those found before on other Admiral Keitel asked for pro-questions which had intelligence his eye in just In Une an armed robbery had just occur position cries of "Why not? Nazis and like, the one found tection for Germany just before officers of four nations hard at wo Chinese police custatic. zed, Mr. Ardy was told by the and Captain Gammans asked if on him a year ago last May at he died

work this morning.

hearing the shots, came up at the. operator that he would have to the Prime Minister did not Mondorf prison. At that time I wait until the line was not buss-realise that the question of it was hidden in a can of Nes- but composed as he came to the cazzled by all top Nazis at the end stains and mouse had the minin Potassium cyanide crystals were double. They followed, the blood Alfred Rosenberg was pale

to cafe. Palestine was doing more

of the war. The poison works custody. On his was a torch, a gallows. Asked if he had any fast. Himmler died less than a pene and a gold wrist watch, all poison Anglo-American tions than anything else in sombined American

Kingsbury Smith, represent last word he said no minute after crushing the capsule the property at Mei Bed

Thanks God

in hiremathon the afpanions and make press, said Joachim von Rib-1 Hana Frank muttered a bare the British in 1965

abomach and subsequent examin bentrop was the first man to | ly audible thanks for his good. A capsule was found on Goering: tion at the homital abowed that dic. While awaiting the placing treatment and thanked God for after his capture. It was taken Brett's last shat had to pavü of a black hood over his head. his "good protection." person and clothes in his cell had well aft and gone through to the away and since then Geering's naval terpenetrated the body he uttered these last words:

been searched at least 100 times stomach pre "God save Germany

stood within three feet of Goering at the hospital. I understand, he All through the trial ward Interviewed by Inspector. Ewins. in the courtroom and his was admits having carried out two never allowed to pass anything to previous robberies in the his attorneys, except through the area-which has had no less than bour boss who had done most soldiers every foot of the way to am also informed that the man Fritz Sanckel, the Nazi la-guard. He was guarded, by two 11 larcenies this month alone.. I of the protesting about his con- and from the courtroom.

hed a very bad crime récord in viction in the two weeks since Under A Light Hong Kong before the war. the trial, went to his death In prison, a guard stood outside bravely, saying: "May God pro his cell peering in 24 hours a day, tect Germany and my family." A light was always on night and Each of the condemned was day, Goering was not allowed to heid steady by two US Army He had to keep his hands outside Kleen with his face to the vall guards from the time he left the covers, where the guard could his cell until the trap was always see them,

1 Trieste, Oct. 16/ A British officer and three aprung. Their hands were tied when his wife and daughter men of the Royal Army Service behind them with black shoe visited him, they were separated Corps, whose motorboat broke laces and their feet strapped by a table and screen, with a down off the coast of the with army belts

guard at each end..

The prison commandant, Colonel Yugoslav zone of Veneda B.C.. Andrus, had boasted time Giulla, south of Trieste, have and again that "suicide is impos been taken into custody by the sible" in the Nuernberg fall Yugoslav authorities, it wat

learned today. Add

They were cruising off the coast near where the Italian

Eventually, according to Gas Company officials, a police party did at 6.08 in the shape of omcers 10m both Con- tral Police Station rope and from the Upper Levels Stations - A colleague of mine was la formed later by Central Police

•Station at the cobbery took place between 6 and 6.15 p.m. They received a telephone mes sage reporting it at 5.35 p.m. and a party was sent immediately.

When I crossed the harbour about an hour after Mr. Ardy had discovered the bound abroff1 before the police arrived was actually on the scene long Police had flung their usual cor don along the water-front, sifting the rush-hour ferry crowds bound for Kowloon. C

Up to the time of going to Press, no arrestajlind been made,

Enemy Ships To Be Sunk

Shanghai, Oct. 16. The Chinese Navy, with instructions to sink “all enemy ships,” has begun operations off China's south coast in an attempt to destroy a pirate fleet..

The main objective is the pirate flagship, the gunboat "Hai Hsing," which until re- cently was a regular unit of China's small navy,

There are two versions of

Smith enld, most of the doomed men made, brief- "Long live Germany statements on the

Mr. Attlee said that he was not prepared to accept either of those statements but clearly it was a question for considera- scaffold. dence between President: Tru- tion whether the correspon man and himself should be published or not. So far as he was aware, there was no pre- cedent Reuter,

None collapsed and

the rope steadily, though with most mounted the 13 steps to U.S. Army guards at each side

"Heil Hitler” Julius Streicher, the Jew baiter, was the only one to

NEVILLE HEATH HANGED

London, Oct. 16.

Kaltenbranner. declared: "I loved my people and my country. I have done my duty toward my country at a difficult time and I have not participated in the crimes."

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| wore during the trial. As he got

But Goerine did it. Howl- Associated Press d

Enquiry

RASC Boat Seized

anme

Neville George Clevely Heath, handsome young ex-RAF. pilot, was hanged at grim Penton-

Sports Jacket ville prison today for the sadistic murder of Wilhelm Frick was dressed motion picture extra Margery Gardner in the gaudy sports jacket he Heath was convicted in one of the most the first glimpse of the gallows sensational murder trials in Britain's history. The cried out "God help Ger- Mrs. Gardner's body was found in Heath's many always be A three-man board has been liner Rex sunt during the London hotel room last June 21 nude with The executions took approxd-appointed to investigate into war by British rocket fring the suicide of Goering for the planes lies in Capodistara Kay, ankles bound. She had been lashed 17 times mately 90 minutes.

when the engine gave out and Bibbentrop went through the Allied Control Council, across her breast and back; there were teeth traat 1214 GMT The last to Public Relations Officer Col, the boat drifted to shore. marks on her body, and she had been severely die, wan-Arthur Seyas-Inquart Richard McConnell said that a After the Yugoslave had mutilated with a poker-like instrument. who went through the trap at disinterested" officer, from the taken the British into, custody,

0146 GMT

United States Army was named they allowed ane man to tel how "Hai Haing," which means the sadistic slaying at pretty failed. In July, 1988, he was so pale when he mounted the that the identity of all three launch was went to tow BWAY Heath was also charged with all other, means to get money Ernest Keltenbrunner was chairman of the board. He said phone to Trieste and a British "prosperity," came into the hands of the pirates. One Is Dores Marshall, aged 21, at the sent to Borstal for three years. gallows that scars on his has not been divulged, the motorboat. that her crew mutinied and swank Bournemouth seaside re Early in the war, he became cheeks shown out a blood redtime no arrests have been made off, shots were fired at

McConnell added that at this As the boat was being towed turned pirate. The other la sort less than two weeks later a commissioned Army officer. colour that the pirates captured the Miss Marshall's body, also bitten In Calzo, he led a wild life until An envelope found on Goer and none are at present con- though not at the launch-from ship while she was sailing to and slashed wantonly, was found the false cheques he issued reing's body contained pencilled templated. Asked if this in shore. The British, who have Hong Kong

in a grove near the shorelted in his being casnicred hates. After the 10 were hang- cluded Emma Goering, who been held by the Yugoslavs "Hai Tsing" has, dons a A crowd of approximately 500 and dismissed the service. ed Gouring corpse was brought visited her husband last week, since Sunday, are expected to profitable business operating men, women and children milled Amazing Career into the execution chamber to McConnell simply repeated his released today Associated along the Kwangtung peninsula about outside the prison walls about 120 miles south of Canton waiting for the posting of thee jumped abip at Durban on be carried out by sentinels statement Associated Press. Press and Renter

his way home and after another Jodl face flushed and eyes Court Notice, announcing that the Unsuspecting funky offer no

THE WEATHER resistance when the Government curly-headed avintor had paid mating series of escapades man- red, paid the final bill with the aged to get a commission in the words: "I salute you, my gunkat hauls up alongside with a life for the crimes which Bouth African Air Force under Germany G and puts search parties of shocked Britain. Posters an assumed name and married The Last Act No aboard. Then it is too late Condemned for una murder into realthy, South 7frican Associated Press

and known to have committed family."Ha vie, Elizabech. Pitt

another this former Borstal Rivers, divorced him in 1946. boy and thief who was cashler Heath returned to England ed three times from the Sera pilot and, affer service on vices spent man his last continent, he went back with hours playing poker, with two he was once again.

squadron, to South of his death guards in his cell: bed and dismissed

All reburned ont court for the

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