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Man With BRITAIN OPENS HER CASE France's

A Husky Voice

London, Dec. 16.

The "man with a husky voice" was today still proving troublesome to Scotland Yard, who for four days and nights have been trying to trace his telephone, calls, warning of bomb explosions.

LEWIS

Grim Story Unfolded At Tokyo Trial

VALENTINE DEAD

New York, Dec. 15. The death was announerd today of former Police Com smissioner Lewis. V. Valen-

pending fine who, immediately after

The latest was today, whe he phoned that a newspaper office in Fleet Street would be blown up at noon.

Early today he warned that a tube station in south Lond n would be wrecked and he re- peated the threat of yesterday that the Royal Artillery Re- giment's records office At Sidcup, in Kent, would als: go. In all cases, workers in the buildings concerned have ignor. ed the waining and have gene on working.

retirement as head of Nei York Metropolitan Police, went to Tokyo at Gen. Mac- Arthur's invitation and die

led the reorganisation of the Japanese police.

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Valentine, 10/10 years, "had been stricken with liver trouble for several daya and died early today.—Goit- eil Prins.

HE DIED HAPPY

Bethune, Dec. 16.

had

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One-Quarter Of P.O.W.'s Died

Tokyo, Dec. 16. Hideki Tojo and Japan's wartime Government were responsible for the brutal wholesale slaughter of more than 100,000 people in Southeast Asia, the British prosecution staff charged at the opening of the British atrocity phase of the Tokyo war trials today.

Heitaro Kimura, defendant and ex-commander of Japanese forces in Burma, was responsible for ordering the execution without trial of Al- lied fliers captured by the Japanese, the Bri- tish charged.

The prosecution revealed to the Court that approximately 23 per cent of British prisoners in Jap- anese hands were killed or died In captivity.

clared,

"You will zo meet your God," the Japanese sold.

Suddenly, Brien continued, he felt a dull thud

the back of

his neck. The blade had struck him. Realising he was still alive. Brien feigned death. He said he then fainted.

Australian said he awok

He

EXPRESS CRASH

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Rome, Dec, 18. Five avere killed and 40 seriously injured today when. Naples-Rome express train crashed into a freight train which was ridetracked at the crossroads of Santa Fe

The passenger traiz, which was two hours late following a shortage of electric power. was travelling at full speed in an attempt to regain lost time when the accident occur- red-United Press,

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Britain

London, Dec. 15.

A wide area of Northern Europe is today in the grip of winter, brought by an ley wind from Siberia.

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The whole of Britain, which for days has experien- ced road, rail and sea chaos, caused by dense fog, awoke today to find roads frozen and ice over streams..

Paris, Dec. 16. France will have an entirely Socialist Cabi- net owing to failure of the attempts to form a Inational coalition Gov-bitter wind immediately caused The fog had gone, but a

low

Ternment, a spokesman the cousumption of gas and

for the Premier, M. Leon electricity to scar. The Blum, announced today. steeks of coal have caused the

The decision was

taken after failure to get the Communists MRP and Left Republican Union- iste to agree to the distribution of cy Cabinet posts. This morning the Left Republican Union let it be known that they would not se- rept a Communist in the job of Minister of National Defence.

The all-Socialist: Government would

be purely a minority опе and could only

carry ir

received

Assem hly support from at least. the Communists and MRP." Whether hese parties had assured Blum that they would do so even they did not actually participate

if

Fuel Ministry to appeal fro quently in recent weeks for reduced domestic consumption.

Franco

Shouts Defiance

Meanwhile, "frora Berlin. eonies news of hundreds of skaters swarmlag to Berlin takes today for the first time Saragossa, Dec. 16: this winter as the temperature. Premier Franco de- fell to 25 degrees (Fah.) belowclared in two defiant freezing point. This was four degrees lower than yesterday speeches today that the world is in a situation The whole population of Ger- of war which may be de- many shivered as the cold waveclared at any time," swept over, all zones.

In Berlin.

The Spanish, leader sald war must

expected "while

be

with the country suffering from transport difficulties inheritance of war damage, and materialistic conception

an

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The story of Japanese sadism Twice in the night, an i

in Malaya. Singapore, Burma, caller, whom

France's oldest citizen, 102-Hong Kong, Indo-China and Siam believe is wht, telephoned year-old Henri Roy, died here was not the result of "Indepen-covered with blood arou the. Yard police,

a few hours after dent acts of individual Japanese slicks were covering his budy. threatening last night,

of life Paris, Dec. 16. them and among other pas learning he had been made a commanders and soldiers, but of Through the use of his feet and

with mines nct yet back to continues in the world, while, bad the headquarters of the .B. might of the Legion of Honour general policy of the Japanese toes he finally uncovered himself life gives very little time Blum already had made it Germany was perhaps the coun- and loyalty to agreements is

Finding that modern in the Cabinet was not yet cute anything like full production, faith and hypocrisy are current and Victoria Station, famed Roy, who was born at Haze-forces and the fan state fent de- hot crawl out of his allow for rest and contempla-known that he was determined to continental terminus.

brouck on Feb. 14, 1844, awoke ment" the opening statement.de- holé. His hands had been bound.

try to which the cold spell was dead matter.". Nothing has happened at from a deep sleep last night to

behind his back.

Franco made the first speech fleast welcome, tion, a any of these places but the learn from his family that the that Britain, Australia. Canada later he surrendered to the Ma

Brien related that three days graduate The proseculion told the Court

20-year-old appear before the Assembly to

morrow afternoon with some sort

Snow Forecast

to officers graduating from the police have had to keep a long expected decoration

Abbeville for Government in order to start

infantry, he formerly commanded, The weather forecast for, the and the second in a public square vigilant watch in all- cases, finally come through.

and New Zealand had so much

layan civilian police who turned University decided 18 work on the budget for the last next 24 hours, suggests Scan- before which now total fourteen.. Roy lighted his pipe, took a committed.

evidence of Japanese atrocilics him over again: to the Japanese. years ago to withdraw quarter of this year by Thursday. dinavia and

a wide area of persons.

an estimated 100,000 Reuter..

few puffs, looked happily; warrior code of "Bushido" that it

under the Japanese United Press.

was liberated in 1945 from the world and live the 618 in the Assembly and are ence cold tomorrow with either Harbour will not be the bombard- The Socialists have 101 seats of Europe will continue to-experi- Ho warned the new, Peart around at his family and said: was impossible to place all the

the life of a recluse. "Now I can die. I am happy."evidence in to the Tribunal re-

nly, the third strongest party af-snow or rain. A few minutes later he went cord within any reasonable length

ment of. naval units in port or He took to his bed because, aster the Communists and MRP... he said, he was "tired and wanted

The outlook for the next few flying. atomic It was understood that Blum days is one of continued cold, destroy towns or industries by .bombs which back to sleep and died shortly of time.

time to think." He stayed there was planning to call together the Thirty-three degrees Fahren-surprise." afterwards.-United Press. The British charged that torture

every day for the past 18 years-heads of the parties to informheit of frost were reported in Instead, Franco declared "the beyond description, mass

Canberra, Dec. 16. not getting up to wash or change them of his ings and punishment were. wide-Immigrant Minister, said

Mr. Arthur Caldwell, Australia's his clothes-to last night.

decision. United areas of the British zone of fifth column will be used. Com- Press;

Germany today after a night posed spread during the Japanese reign that Australia could give jobs to today

of "men of double during which snow-covered nationality, ene apparent and the roads turned into sheets of ice other always potential, who will and streams froze..

paralyze the circulatory system', Light snow was falling this of Ilving peoples through doors afternoon. Road transport in stupidly opened to theip by in- many parts of the zone was nocent and blockheaded inorganic held up but air services were democracies, h running on schedule-Beuter. Franco did not refer directly to the resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly

The military authorities last! night destroyed a large quantity of flares at Lyeemun.

Burying Alive Of Four Cripples

Khartoum, Dec. 16.

The burial alive of deformed and defective chil- dren and adults in remote parts of the Otoro Hills, in Kordofan province of the Sudan, about 350 miles south of Khartoum, was re- ported today in a telegram received from the Government post at Talodi. Twenty-two men and women, including a blind man of the Ottoro Nuba tribe, are accused of at least four such crimes during the past four years. All of the accused are more than 60 years of age,

New Jewish Threat

Jerusalem, Dec. 16.

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beat-

NEW BLOOD FOR AUSTRALIA

Then the authorities found him,

a mere skeleton covered with

in Southeast Asia. Massacres of 40,631 Immigrants in 1947-which, sores and with his hair and beard Innocent children, women

men were also perpetrated on sent some 120,000 people,

and including families, would repre- growing down to his knees. This Thuze' scole.

Listed among some barONUES

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The state with the biggest ab-ingly to Abbeville Hospital, where were the slaughter of 5,000 teip-wales with 15,140 and Victoria sane and with "powerful intelli- sorptive capacity were New Bouth the doctors reported him to be less Chinese in Singapore and an with 11,850. lorry of sadism launched against

Burma-Sian railway..

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morning he was carried protest. Consul's

Murder Arrest

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slave and prisoner labour on the that the states would not get their be touched, moyed or cared for Lack of shipping, space menat His parents said, he refused to

Atrocitica committed by Japan-he. added. Reuter.

full quota of immigrants for 1945, during his hermit-like existence. ese oldiers in Singapore were reinted.

Slaughtered Like Sheep

According to affidavits submit- The victims were a four-ted by eye-witnesses, civilians year-old crippled boy, a crippled were slaughtered by the Japanese and diseased.

male infant, a "like sheep" and at times the in- crippled girl aged five, and a "turned red.""

coming

lide at nearby beaches crippled woman aged 26, the telegram said...

When British Brigadier Freder brutalitics and atrocities ick G. Galleghan protested the were heaped upon POWs he was duly informed by the Jupaneru that the crders came from Tokyo and that Tokyo alone could amend them.

The woman was buried alive four years ago, the girl a year age and the male children with in the last three months, the telegram said. 'All of the burials Look place at Orumba, it added, south-east of the Nuba

mountain.

Pagan Ritual

which

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-Revier.

Greater Hellas Will Arise

Athens, Dec. 15.

Field-Marshal Jan Smuts, South African Prime Minister, today told a cheering crowd from the steps of the Old Palace in the heart of Athens that a Greater Hellas would arise..... "Greeks, you must not be discouraged," he said "Raise your hearts and prepare for the greater future which lies ahead of you. A Greater Hellas will arise. People of Athens, keep your "faith in the future. The loss and destruction are not the end but the step forward towards a new world for which millions of unknown sol- diers gave their lives."

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General Smuts' references to Athens University and received a Greater Hellas were greeted the honorary degree of Doctor thousands of Athenians,

students and professors.

officer entered Alexandra Hospi

On Feb. 17. 1942, a Japanese tal and assured the patients the The Acting Governor of Kor- Japanese The secret transmitter of the dofan province, G. Hawkes- and that they had nothing to were kindly captors illegal Jewish terrorist organworth, has gone to Orumba to fear." The patients were told to sation, Irgun Zvai Leumi, last night threatened that Bri-

investigate.

regard the visit as by a direct tish Army officers would be

representative of the Emperor "punished by 18 strokes of the

It is believed here that the be bestowed on them.

and that no higher honour could caine" if the sentence on 10- burials were a mixture of pagan

Justice James Mansfield, year-old. Abraham Kimchin was ritual and so-called mercy kill- member of the carried out.

prosecution staff. ings.

introduced countless pages Kimchin was found guilty of The remote Nuba tribesmen evidence

Malayan and Indian holdup in Jaffa cn Sept. 13 and were driven by slavers years prisoners of war and civilians by He had first laid a wreath on was sentenced to 18 years im-40. It is believed they may that after one massacre the Japrlor in the presence of Crown tonight by the Greek Govern- An official banquet was given the Japanese, Evidence showed the Tomb of the Unknown War- in honour of General Smuts prisonment and 18 strokes of have

been practising rites learned from their ancestors. anese ceremoniously saluted the Prince Paul and Crown Princessment, at which he was toasted. Its members are normally quiet and decorated it with shrubs.

common grave of their victims Frelcrika.

by the Deputy Prime Minister:- the Mok, the hereditary prince. testifying that Japanese who Smuts received a scroll grant-

At: another ceremony at Teuter. Athens town hali, Generad to rescue the 800 Jewish im Burials similar to the present committed atrocities against In- migrants from the Jewish ship cases in the same district came dian troops captured after the ing him the freedom of the. wrecked on Syrina Island but to light in the early 1930's and Battle of Malaya did not discrim-city, Thanking the Lord Mayor added: "This episode does not again in 1944. The defence innate among Moslems, Hindus or of Athens, the South-African change the fact that we are in all cases was that the victims

Siklis.

Premier said he had become a a state of war with the cruel were possessed of evil spirits, the Japanese led out 188 patients countries, but to be a citizen of Another affidavit said one night | eitizen of towns. In various enemy who is endangering our and it was only by buying themame on crutches very existence.

or plaster The new alive that the spirits could be casts and many swathed in band-the historic city of Athus was generation asks for no philan- "exercised. Associated Press. ages from the British base hos-the createst honour of all for thropy and no mercy. We

pital in Singapore. Only two ancient Athens gave the great- want recognition for life,

survived to tell a tale of the "ter? | est açrvices to civilisation and Reuter

rible screama" while the men progress.

charges arising from the bank live on a hill top, where they Chinese butchery of British, with tremendous cheers from of Philosophy amidst cheers of:

the birch by a military court n Jerusalem.

The broadcast paid u tribute to the British airmen who flew

COMMUNITY WIPED OUT

and are weil administered by

VETERAN ADMIRAL

DEAD

Cambridge, Dec. 16. The death occurred last night of Admiral Sir Herbert William Basle, Dec. 15. Richmond following a heart at

tack.

Mansfield introduced affidavits

vive:

sergeant;

Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the President of the Jewish Agency Aged 75, Admiral Richmond was seized by the Japanese in And of the Zionist Congress meet had been Master of wling Metage in 1942 after he had been

Not Forsaken

Treasure Hunt In Manila

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Snow.

London, Dec, 16.

Soviet Union Invulnerable?

Washington; Dec. 15.

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The Coast Artillery Journal" and the Soviet Union is less vul. nerable than any other nation in the world to a threat of ground or air attack

The coldest weather since instraing all member nations January 21 brought light snow- withdraw diplomatie missions fall, frost and ice today but dis- from Spain.--Associated Press. Marseilles, Dec. 15.

Aolved the peasoup fore which plagued Britain at the end of Inst Marseilles police today week detained for interroga-extensive parts of the country to-

Electric power

power Was cut over tion a-man they believe day when cold resulted in abova to be the murderer of cast warnings the Central Electri

normal consumption. After broad- Mr. Frederic Kristian elty Board ordered cuts of five Marstrander, former per cent in Northeast England, Norwegian

per Consul

cent in Northwest Eng in land and 15 per cent in the rest Marseilles.

of the country which was the big- gest reduction yet imposed.

Calone! Carl F. Tischbein, of Four Italians arrested earlier

Two inches of snow were re

the General Staff Corps, wrote released when Madame ported in Kent but London's first that all but one of Russia's fron- Marstrander Called to identify any snowfall of the winter was just a tiers face mountains, deserts or of them as the murderer.

trace

He said Russia has Temperature on the roof icy waster. his home by a man who entered United Press,

of the Air Ministry this morning vast open areas, for operating The Consul was shot dead at was 26 degrees Fahreinheit.space as well as unrivaled defen his dining room while he and his

sive barriers in her marshes, wize, were

--And Sun

swamps and Inkos. having supper. His

He pointed out that the Rus- assailant escaped with

London, Dee: 16. sians had stretched their indux- complice through the window tain and transportation returned developed land mass on the glue. Sunshine has returned to Bri- trial bases over the largest un- but a soft felt haf, believed to to schedule. For had cloaked the He added that only the Soviet left behind-Reuter. belong to one of the men, was islands for five days.Associated Union's

older Press

industrial centres relativel

onen targets for air attack but that industrial centres deep in the Siberian hinterland' are well-rarded as the industrial reserve-United Press.

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Thought She Was Mr. Churchill's Niece

Hamburg, Dec. 16.

Mrs, Odette Sansom, heroine of the French Re- sistance and holder of the George Cross; 'told the Military Court here today how the Gesta- po thought she was Winston Churchill's niece when she was interrogated on arrival at Ravensbruck, women's concentration camp.

Bre

HOME FROM FAR EAST

Liverpool, Dec. 16. The liner "Duchess of Bedford" arrived here from Colombo Jast hight with 3,000 service personnel from the Far East and Middle East.

Ninety per cent of the men are fuo fer demobilisation, token

One member of the crew; Sea-

Mrs. Sansom was captured by Mrs. Sansom was always known man Albert Whiteway, was lost the Gestapo in France, held in Ravensbruck as Mrs. Chur-in the Suez Canal. He was clean- prisoner in Paris, and eventually chill Mrs. Sansom said Caping the ship's scuppers when he transferred to Ravensbruck in tain Churchill told the Gestapo overbalanced and fell into tie were being bayonetted to death. She was the morning star for

Manila, Dec. 16, July: 1044. Survived Execution

Her commanding he was only a distant relative Canal. Efforts to save him were the whole of humanity, and he One of the largest treasure officer was Captain Peter Chur- of Winston Churchill,

unsuccessful.Reuter. An Australian who, was he was convinced that the star of hunts in Pacifte history is re- chillto headed and buried" by the Jap- Greece would continue to en-suing in early January 8 2

nese when he was a prisoner of lighten the human race in Seattle, Wash., contracting firm, of 17 doctors, nurses and other

Giving evidence at the trial. Horrible Smell

THE WEATHER war told how he managed to sur- future.

the Marine Salvage and Con-officials of the notorious camp, struction Company starts the Mrs. Sansom said that on ar, a slight French accent, was ward. The depression NE of Mra, Sansom, who spoke with N China is moving slowly enst A moderate unticyclone over Colin Fleming Brien, ser

salvage of $10,000,000 silver rival the Commandant naked wearing a khaki uniform with Hokkaido and an associated Ing here, was reported today to College, Cambridge, since 1926 wounded. At the point of pissid, recording, to the Greek

petos from the bottom of Man her: "Are you Mr Churchill the ribbons of the George Cross secondary E of Japan are mov- The people of Athens, hofla Bay.. be seeking Palestine visas for ned was author of works on tol he was ordered from his sick Navs Agency, should not be cent of the recovered coins. Sansom said she denied to one week spent in an unlighted tropical depression, has intensi

"I replied "yes so he anked: and the MBE DELET the only Jewish family which naval history and

The firm will receive 10 per "Are you Churchill's face?" She told of three months and Intively low over B China The Ing castward, Pressure is re British bed by the Japanese and, march.

ed to a jungle clearing: In the fluenced by present develop. The silver was dumped off Cor- the Gestapo that she was bedless underground cell from fed alightly over the Central centre of the clearing, he said. mesta and should not think they regidor in April, 1942 to keep Churchill's alece, and explained which she was taken once a Philippines and appears to Le was an open grave with a sword were foresaken, or would be it out of the hands of the Japan that she was using the name of fortnight for, a shower bath moving slowly northward, sticking the earth at the foranken in the near future esp

A platoon of Japanese Citirene of Athens gave the Five million coins already tending to be his wife, a kround floor cell which was moderate easterly winds; her commanding officer, pre Later she was moved to s Today's Forecast: Light or in order to withd

to witness the give it again in the future, a United States Navy on behalf France my commanding officer, and some light. But the win the morning.

message of liberty, democracy, of the Philippines but person Captain Peter Churchill, thought dow overlocked the camp crerdaYesterday's weather: Brien was mad edge of the grave with his fect wisdom and human enlighten nel shortage ended the work it wisent to give his real name," toriure which at the end was Maximum: 092/ deg Fah.

to alton the

dangling over its edge. A Jap. ment t anese officer told him to bow his After his visit to the town national treasury as part of the would be a help if I pretended rible smell came into my gell Max Rel. Humidity: 88% The money will be kept in the she said. "Also he thought it going day and night. The hor Minimum 63.1 deg, Fah, head.A blindfold was put over hall, General Smuts was re Republic's metal reserves-As to be his wife, The prosecus and 1 could hear people scream Sunshine: 2.7 hours. his eyesha

ceived by the Chancellor of sociated Press.

Jtion explained that was why Ing.Associated Press,

Fainfall: NIKS

Bow survives th his home town strategy-United Press,

of Motyl, near Finsk, in Poland,

The family wrote to him telling

him that except for themselves,

ip entire Jeylah community ON OTHER PAGESldiers, plus 16. gulcers were lined world in the past, and, would have been salvaged by the "When we were captured in "better because I had a bed Cloudy, becoming fair during

there had been wiped out and

The township destroyed. The only Part Two

bguse left standing was the one inwitch Dr. Weizmann was born years égo, and which he left the late, eight, to become chemical student-Reuter

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