1946-10-18 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1946.

GOERING SUICIDE

SUICIDE THEORY Wife Or Barber Provided Poison

Bodies May Be Dumped In Sea

London, Oct. 16. Frau Emmy Goering, actress wife of Hermann Goering, is one of a number of people likely to be questioned on how Goering managed to obtain the phial of cyanide of potassium with which he cheated the gallows a million to one chance which came off. Goering's body, clad in blue silk pyjamas, was still lying on his cot in the condemned cell when only a few yards away his fellow-Nazi conspirators were walking manacled to Unit- ed States guards to the execution chamber, where one after another they mounted the 13 steps to the gallows, wen Immediately United States, demned men were to have been security officers opened their allowed to walk freely to the investigations to discover how gallows, but instead they were Goering obtained and concealed marched manacled to guards the poison.

manacling order also meant that they had only one hand free with which to cat their last meal-tinued pork tomato salad, potato salad and

The

At 9.30 p.m., correspondents who were to witness the execu tions peered through the iron grill in Goering's cell and saw him apparently fast asleep.coffee. "His right hand was clenched," Dumped At Sea? wrote Basil Gingell, Beuters After the executions, the Special Correspondent. "It bedies were placed in plain must have been in the grip of coffins. There has as yet been his clenched fist that he held

'no official announcement re- the poison, which was to cheat garding the place of burial, but the gallows of its Number One unconfirmed reporta said they victim."

will be taken out to sea and dropped in the ocean to prevent any repetition of such action as the anatching of Mussolini's body from his grave.

An hour and a quarter later, a guard saw him twitching and heard him make a "strange

noise."

- Goering was dead.

Last Visit

Fran Goering last saw her husband on Oct. 7, when the men wives of the condemned paid their farewell visits to the prisoners. Afterwards, she walked away from the prison stern-faced but dry-eyed.

cooks.

SOVIET DENIAL

Moscow, Oct. 17. "The Soviet "New Times” today denounced as inven- tions, reports that the Soviet-

·Union was undertaking wide- scale military measures, along the Turkish border, AGA KAA

The New Times", claimed that the reports came from a ||Routeria writer and -exid that he could better spend his time/suriting" of "his 'country'a military measurer in foreign countries?———As80- ciated Press.

Curtain Falls At Paris

Paris, Oct 17

The fall of the curtain on the 80 days Paris Peace Conference was marked by a mass exodus of delegates, many of whom - Jeft

HONG KONG SERVICES RACE CLUB

MILITARY RACE MEETING

PROCEEDS TO CHARITIES

will be held at HAPPY VALLEY RACE COURSE ON SUNDAY, 20TH OCTOBER

First Saddling Bell 2.30 p.m. First Race starts at 3.00 p.m.

only to meet again in New York CASH SWEEPS There will be a Special Cash Sweep on the

for the General Assembly of the United Nations due to open on Oct. 29.

last race, tickets for which (22) may De obtained at the Office of The Hong Kong Jockey Club, Exchange Building, First flour. together with the usual Through" numbers ($10) including a chance in the Special Sweep...

Public Enclosure

Tincluding, Tax

By lane and traîn delegates left the French capital, leaving wherd 11 Nazi lenders were behind them a secretariat of 500 condemned and met their end, hard at work typing, translating some people think that the and checking the peace terios a Allied Control Commission recommended by the conference TOTE DOUBLE on the 2nd and 4th Races made a mistake by going back for Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria, on their original decision not to Hungary and Finland. The last admit the press to the execu- tions. It was said that by ad- mitling the press the Control Commission gave the condemned Nazis a chance to put across propaganda to the German peo- ple while on the scaffold.

German Apathy

of the Big Three to go was Mr. ENTRANCE James F. Bymes, United States Secretary of State flying to Washington in the presidential plane "Sacred Cow" American people on Friday night

He said he would address the

aged by the conference. He ex

understand

Before leaving. Mr. Byrnes de clared that he did not feel inter- A German who spent four national relations had been dam- years in a concentration camp pressed optimism over the chances said: "If the Allied Centro of "Big Four" agreement as Council had dévoted as much the final drafts of the five treaties energy to see that Goering was and said it was not expected flot allowed to commit suicide that full agreement would

as they did to guarding the be reached at the conference, eight correspondents who wit- While he could nessed the executions, Goering might not have cheated justice." The people of Nuernberg were generally apathetic to the end of the 11 Nazi leaders. A German housewife, who said she loat both her sons on the Lord Vansittart, former Russian front, declared: "Those Chief Adviser to the Foreign warmongering swine deserved Office and leader of the "hard their fate." A woman school peace for the Nazis" school of teacher said: "To us the hang- thought in Britain, said Goerings are just another ing's suicide was "inexplicable considering how closely he must have been guarded."

Meanwhile, the world today is asking how Goering managed to cheat the gallows last night. Anger and surprise characteris- ed some of the reaction:

un-

savoury affair. All our thoughts are wrapped in securing bare necessities of life.”:

the

Questions will also be put to Dr. Stahmer, Goering's elderly counsel, Dr. Pfluecher, who at tended Goering under the super vision of an American doctor, A report from Paris, says German prisoners at a farm and the 27 German members that Parisians were stupefied in Essex heard the news of the of the prison staff, including by the suicide. Some people hangings and came to work were saying "influential Anglo-wearing black ties. The owner These Germane bad been Saxon circles" had enabled of the farm. said: "These Ges carefully. screened before being Goering to cheat the gallows mane work hard as a rule but brought to the Nuernberg Marcel Gachin, veteran Commu- teday I can get nothing out of prison and had since been con- nist ledder, commenting on the them."- fined inside the prison walle. possible effect of the suicide on Goering, must have received the world, said "It will create the poison recently, for its intense irritation among people a report from Berlin sald action was very quick. Had the of all nations," while a high that six out of ten average Ber cyanide been old, it would not official of the French Ministry liners branded Goering as a have taken effect quickly and of Justica ald: "One cannot coward after bearing that he Goering might have been given help wondering how such a had committed suicide. an einetic in time.

thing could happen under, the very eyes of Allied, guards,"

No Arrests

No Regret

A Coward

Yugoslav disappointment he hoped that Marshal Tite's representa- tives would reconsider their posi tion and aign the treaty with Italy. In many important in- stances votes giving a two thirds majority had registered world opinion and he found it difficult to believe that members of the Council of Foreign Ministers would not abide by this expression of world, opinion.Reuter.

tion. The founder of concen tration camps, where death was handed out to millions, could not face the gallows himself. Geering-top surviving Nazi leader was the only defendant martyr myth on whom the might have been founded. The gallows offered him the most effective platform from which

impress his sympathisers with the depth of his conviction and his selflessness for the cause. Frankly, I feared he would do it. But he lacked the character.

Even smaller men, who were his satellites, died more courageously."Reuter.

Lawyer Did It?

A Washington reports says that Mr. Charles Ross, White, Houac press secretary, told re- Among the many theories be

porters that President Truman

Nuernberg, Oct. 17. Field Marshal Lord Birdhad received no direct reports Col. B. C Andrus, US Army ing discussed is the possibility

commandant of Nuernberg pri- that Frau Goering could have wood, former Commander-in-ou Goering's suicide. passed the phial to her husband Chief, India, however was one The War Department, the on, said in an interview today it when kissing him through the of those who expressed a differ- Provost Marshal's Office and the was possible that a German at- torney "slipped" Hermann Goer grill when taking the last fare ent view when he said today War Crimes Branch 14ine poison during the trial, d -well,

"I feel rather thankful Lord Washington told Reuter that He said, however, he had no Another theory is that a Birdwood, who was also Com- they have not initiated any connection with the investigation German barber may have slip-mander of the Australian and special investigation, but un- of Goering's death and ped the phial between Goering's New Zealand Forges in the derstood that Colonel Andrus, theory was merely a possibility collar and neck.

First World War, said of Goer who was in charge of the con- which would be probed by a com However, the security officering: "He was a man of un- demned men, had already begun mission of three army officers.

The defence attorneys had close at the Palace of Justice an- doubted ability. I feel no regret an intensive inquiry, nounced today that no arrests he has evaded the hangman."

contact with the prisoners during have so far been made and none George Bernard Shaw, world

the trial and often handed sheafs is immediately contemplated.- famous Irish dramatist, mere

of documents back and forth.

The guards were ordered to Guering's suicide led to a ty said that Georing's suicide

scrutinize every scrap of paper before passing it to a defendant. last-minute change of procedure calls for no comment" ( in the executions: The con In Nuernberg itself, the city

-Associated Press.

“JANE“

THIS IS WHERE "MAYSE AH BEITER. SHE WORKS, TIMBER- KEEP OUTA SIGHT, JUST MISSED HER — BAAS - "CASE" LAST NIGHTË AH SKEERS. HER

AGAIN!

Mr. Justice Robert Jackson, chief American prosecutor at Nuernberg, said in a statement Buicide tonight: Goering's

killed the myth of Nazi bravery and stoicism and deep convic

PARDON ME-

TAKE IT EASY, DUCKS CORERE IS AGAIN

MAY I SEE THE YOUNG LADY: EKNOWN AS

JANE?

JANE?- AW!-SHE'S SICK, BROTHER-HURT: HER LEG SEE!~ YOU CAN'T BE TOO ̈ \CAREFUL-TAS I BEEN

TELLING THESE

LITTLE DEARS!

BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES

Ye Olde Mill Stream

EDGAR MARTIN

that

Members Enclosure $3

There are a limited number of Boxes available upon application to the Clerk of the Course, Li-Col. J. R. Edgar,

M.B.E., HQ Land Forces. (Telephone No. 34121-Ex 26).

Squadron Leader A. E. RUSHFORD, R.A.F.V.R.

Secretary, HES.R.C.

BY COURTESY OF THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

BACK AGAIN

TO STOR YOUR

PAIN and FEVER ASPRO

REG, TRADE MARK

'ASPEO' the greatest medicine is back again. It brings instant relief for pain, reduces the temperature of fever and soothes the nerves. Its prompt us, can ward off serious- illnesses. ASPRO does not harm the heart or stomach. It

is safe. Even a child can take it. ASPRO is the quickest surest. relief for Headaches, Rheumatism, Neuritis, Lumbago, Colde, Influenza, Toothache, Sciatica, Irritability! SleeplessnESS and all nerve pains.

New stock available at Dispensaries and Stores

5, 11 and 27 tablets.

Sole Agents: DODWELL & CO., LTD.

Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Bidg.

UPACO 2A

MADE IN

New

ENGLAND

PRESENTATION IN FASCINATING PLASTIC CASE OF DIGNITY & CHARM

Trist

LIPSTICK

AVAILABLE AT ALL LEADING STORES Distributors: THE ARGOSY, Gloucest Arcade

ABC 服務社

CLATY

SERVICE BUREAU

TEL: 24265:.

BRIGHT & BRILLIANCE;

For Your

OFFICES, PREMISES & CARS

Most Be CLEAN & POLISHED

WHITE" ANTS. EXTERMINATION

Conda

Road

4265

cord

Invitat