THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1947.
FURORE OVER WAR CRIMES TRIAL Death Sentence On Kesselring Controversy Bishops, Generals In Argument
London, May 17.
Lieutenant General Sir Oliver Leese, former commander of British Forces in Italy, who' protested last week at the death sentence passed on German Field Marshal Albert Von Kesselring for war crimes in Italy, said in an interview today that, "my protest was justi- fied. It drew the attention of the British Gov- ernment and Parliament to the issue." Lieutenant General Leese was the man who suc- ceeded Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery as Commander of the British Eighth Army. and was reported last week as "very sad" at the Kesselring death sentence:
**Kesselring WIN fl gallant to escape death A શ war Medier who fought his batting criminal. The sentimental res well and squarely." Leese told pert for Kesselring seems Ir. a Sunday Pictorial currespon relevant. Steadily earnered by dent. "The Eighth Army men the British prosecution, he who fought agalust him had no† eventually said, "If anyone is to complaints about his conduct.¦ blame in this matter the mass Like Bommel, Kesselring aet al sacre of 335 Italian, men, wo- very good example in the treat men and children in a eave at ment of prisonera far better, Ardeatine in March 1944) it is
me. Surely he stands than the tailans,"
General¦ condemned."-- Reuter,
first!
Today Lieutenant Loese wald: "Since my expression of opinion 1 have received muny letters from ex-} Eighth Army men who fought | with me against Konsering in Italy."
Melf-
Odom To Do
It Again
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NOT DOING
SO BADLY
Carlisle, May 18. Field Marshat Lord, Mont- Homery, Chief of Inperial General Staff, declared today that there was too much per- simiam about prospects of t peaceful settlement of world problems.
At ceremonica in which he was given the honorary free- domat. Carlisle, Lord Mont- gomery said. "I don't
think they, the peacemakers, doing so badly. I would far anoner take a bit longer to win a gani prace than patch up but prace quickly."-- Arociated Press.
Priestley Injured In Plane
Mr
One-Sided. To Give Up The Bomb
Athens, Ohio, May 18, Joseph E. Johnson, chief of the State Department's Division of International Security Affairs, be- lieves that it would be a "one-sided exchange" if the United States gave up its atomic bomb nów.
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In an address before
Ohio Nations
University's United B.O.A.C.
Committee, Johnson donounced Soviet demands that atomle bombs be nerapped before in- ternational atomic controls are | adopted.
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Chief On Tour
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'Oklahoma" Cheats The Junkyard Pearl Harbour, May 18.
The tragic battleship Oklahoma, raised from a shallow grave after the Japanese assault on Fearl Harbour, sank quietly in mid-Pacific on Saturday, thwarting the mainland junkyard for which she was bound.
The vanarable warship, symbol of American sorrow and pride. went over without
# soul on board 540 miles Northeast of Pearl Harbour,
One week age she had left in the tow of the tugs Monarch and Hercules and had been duo in San Francisco on May 30.
it
The hall was shipshape when "Should their proposal be
is left. Suddenly and
inex- adopted, we should be deprived |
1 licably she began to list heavily iate an of the atomic bomb as a weapon
Friday. New York, May 17.
Later and left with no real assurance
ater Captain Kelly Sprague of The Hercules radioed that waves Viscount Knolly, Chairman were washing over that the technisat knowledge
the Oklaho We surrender would not be Corporation, tok a press col-tripped of guns and superstruc
of British Overseas Airways ma's desulate decks-long since furned to us in the form
ference here today, in answer ture. He was ordered to head devastating attacks upon
to a question, that, on the ques-book for Pearl Harbour, but and people." ritica
Jahnson
tion of popularising through, tittle laterns it determined Stockholm, May 17.
BRI.
flights vin Britain between În-escape an Igneminous fate on the Asserting that "apparently dia and the United States. J. B. Priestley, everybody is out of step
it serap rap--the Oklahoma parte! well-known
The tow lines and plunged toward but was not a matter of competing British au- the Russians," Johnson sald the with American lines, but of
a bestton three miles down. thor and dramatist, was Suviet Union for many months American linen competing with that of the famous
Seamen compared her end with slightly
battleship injured today had held up organization of a
HOAC
Warspite which on April 23 was The recent ban on Britain's wreeked on the Cornish coast, also when the plane in which police force.
"The negotiation of agree-ying of American-built afir- while being towed toward a junk- he was travelling pitch-ments to provide armed forces craft would not affect trans-vari-Associated Press. who one month ago established violently at 500 feet, for the United Nations is one of Atlantic services, but would ring as a soldier and am very round the world record in ten minutes before land- lad indeed that he has chung the Reynalds Bombshell., dising at Stockholm airport.
his mind and decided to closed today he is planning a peal against his sentence. The new glue circling lighter and his glasses were pitched to Mr. Priestley cut his thumb matter has been aired in Parlia- the North and South Poles. ment. Throughout this con- Be suld he will fly alone in troversy my opinions have been the Bombshell, or with a crew that of a soldier who fought in a 829 if the government against Kesselring. The civil thorities approve. side of the question has, of Odom wald he has discussed course, to be taken into con his plans with the authorities sideration but of course'l know in Washington and hopes Rohing of that,"
make the fight next winter.
"Exceptional Claim" Grand Rapids, Michigan,
"The overwhelming majority | of them support my viewa
have a cras opinion of Reset-
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Lieutenant General Leese's! outspoken comments started a flood of correspondence in the British press,
Captain Willam
May 18. 1. Odom,
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to
With a 129, he explained, he hoped to fly up to 10,000 miles non-stop from New York via Fairbanks, Calcutta, Capetown, } New Zebland and back to Now
the rear of the plane.
The other passengers
were
shaken in not injured. said that their luggage They
the vital pieces of unfinished necessitate operational changes Nitti Has A Shot
Jolinson also saki President
Rome, May 17. Aged premler.designate Frances.
business before the organiza- on the Empire routes, he add-
cit. Trommn's $100,000,000 Greco quishes his post of chairman to so Nitti announced that he will
on," he declared.
Viscount Knollys, who relin-{ Turkish and programme would Sir Harold Harley on July 1, is nccept on Sunday the mandate to not wenken. the making a 33,000-mile farewell form a new Italian Government strengthen. United Nations.
tour of BOAC world bases with indicating that he has obtained thrown from the racks.
"Greece revived, healthy. Mr. Whitney Straight, who be approval for his genoval proprom. Mr. Priestley.
accompanied tranquil and progressive, would comes Managing Director
me, from the by his daughters. Sylvia
July. and be a vigorous, participant irr
parties, Harbarn, is visiting Sweden development of the United Na-lin. New Zealand, the Malay Government of "national soil. a! Denmark to contact his tions and a useful contributor States, India, Iraq, Palestine, darity" with all major and miner literary and theatrient agents.to, peace," wald-United Erypt and East Africa before parties.
Randolph Churchill, son of Britain's wartime Premier Yark. Winston Churchill, wrote to the If the Bombshell is aged the. Daily Telegraph. "It is aliames | gente would be altered to consi ful that two years after Ger- form to its maximum range of many capitulated uncondition 5.400 miles, Odom declared. ally we should still he bounding One route studied for the down our defented and de-liørter range A26. he said, is fenceless foes. The case of from New York to Fairbanks. As Kesselring is particularly shock- across Europe to New Zealand, ing. By surrendering in army over Little America to Terra of 1,000,000 men to Field Mur- del Fuego on the southern tip? shal Alexander he established of South America and back to
exceptional claim to be New York.--Associated Press. treated with chivalry."
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Bishops joined with Generals Guerillas
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in the wordy battle, and Wednesday the War Office warned all officers from Field Marshals to subalterns to keep their own counset on the issue. V.C.'s Question
Trapped
Reuter.
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Press,
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Immigration Ship In Navy Hands
Jerusalem, May 17.
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They will procead to Austra-
returning to London on June 13. Reuter.
New Anti-T.B. Drug
country's infor
Nitti is attempting to form
Before Nitti's announcement the Italian Communist Party served notice that it Intended to remain part of Italy's political life and would demand representation in any, new Government formed. A statement by Communist lender Palmiro Togliatti after a 55-min- ute interview with Nitti said no Philadelphia, May 17.
Government is possible without Discovery of я печ strep-cooperation of the Communists Lomycin drug derived from the United Press.
▸ soil of Bikini Atoll and doubly i
effective against tuberculosis germs was announced at a meet- ing of the Society of Ameri-} can Bacteriologists today.
a British naval boarding party headed the im- migrant ship Trade Winds, with 1,500 Jews on board, into Haifa tonight, an unconfirmed re- port from Tel-Aviv said that a second ship carrying 4,000 Jews, was nearing Palestine. This ship was kald to be the today, and their names were Brigadier Kisch," called after disclosed as Lieutenant J. Gra- Brigadier Frederick Kisch who bam and Lieutenant M. H. was killed in action in 1943. Hollway.
MRS. TRUMAN
ILL
Washington, May 17. The discovery was made by President Truman left by plane Dr. Donald B. Johnston of the for Grandview, Mo., today to New Jersey Agricultural Ex-visit his mother Martha, 94, who Station, who suffered severe setback in her
insaid her condition is "very critical"
At least three immigrant Two soldiers earlier reported perimentation ships carrying in all 5,000 Jews missing for 24 hours from said the new drug in twice as convalescence. Dr. Joseph Greene were reported three, days ago their unit turned up, the Bri-powerful as the original Athens, Muy 17.. The ring drawn by Greek to be lurking in a secret harish forces radio station in checking tuberculosis germs. and during the night she went In the House of Lords on army forces round the gueri bour in the Dodecanese Islands, Jerusalem announced tonight.
The Holl was gathered at into "chills and sudden debility." Tuendny,
Lord de l'Isle and us in the Khassin and Kam-off the southwest coast of Tur-
No official explanation was Bikini between the first and The President left the White Dudley, who won the Victoria vunia mountains in northern key, waiting for a chance to riven.---Reuter.
second atomic bomb tests, but House so suddenly that pressmen beat the naval blockade of Cross-Britain's highest award Thessaly had been closed, ́Gen-
Tension Eases
Johnston said radioactivity, had assigned to cover the White House for valour=[]}} the Anzio al Taskalotes. Deputy Chief Palestine.
Jerusalem, May 18.
nothing to do with its were left behind. Other members The 1,200-ton Trade Winds, beaches when he was Major of the General Staff, quoted by
The British ordered a slight germ- prohibiting characteris-of the Truman family already are Philip Sydney, raised the ques- the Greek news agency, told the ring also the Jewish name relaxation of security measurestles, Tests on chick embryos at the bedside.
of Halikvah, the Jewish "Na- tion of the Kesselring sentence, } Wor- Ministry today.
in the Holy Land after reliable showed the drug is non-poison- The President's mother suffer-: tional Anthem," was intercept-.
Summing up on the Kessel- A nearch had begun for the ed and escorted by naval ves- reports said some elements in aus but Johnston did not claimed a broken hip in a fall ring controversy, the London guerillas caught in the encircls from the Lebanon const to the Jewish underground were its auccessful uso yet on hu- months ago.-United Press. Evening newspaper "Star" said cled area, which lies between Palestine, and was once to considering a truce during the mans-United Press.
cinted Press.
U.S. Citizens
Jerusalem, May 18. Six United States citizens,
with
Appeal To Palestine
in an editorial:
"An unexpect Grevens and Trikkala, he re- British seamen who took con- the future of Palestine.-Asso- United Nations inquiry Into ed amount of admiration for ported. Field Marshal Kesselring is bei The military authorities sald trol.
The Trade Winds was report. ing expressed by some military that mopping up operations men in this country who had led to the destruction of to be 50 miles off Haifa late
today. evidently consider that his all guerilla fortified positions. The ability as a soldier entitles him Guerilla casualties in the area when the immigrants rushed discovered on the intercepted
ship had a heavy Hist amounted to 250 killed, wound-up on deck after the naval in refugee ship Hatikua which
Jerusalem, May 17. ed and taken prisoner..
The Palestine Government to- escorted into Halfa har night issued The Greek Red Cross has terception. Through loudspeak-was
FLA Communique EXTREMISTS IN
1,000 uncertified No. 119, the text of the resolu ers, naval officers ordered them "bour "on-the-spot" in- 20
Jewish refugees aboard, were tion moved by the Norwegian BALI
vestigation of reports in Com-back below decks for their own
reportedly officially to have delegate and nilopted by the Batavia, May 18. munist newspapers of "the de- safety, and they obeyed.
been detained by the Palestine United Nations General Assem- extremists from plorable
health conditions"
Police for further questioning. bly on May 15 calling on on the island of among the people deported by
The Americans presumably governments and peoples "and Ball, the "Paradiso leland," just the Government to the island
were seamen on the ablp, al- particularly upon the inhabit. east of Java, In spite of attempts of Karla in the Aegean, by a Dutch naval vessel patrol. Newspaper reports had said
though the announcement did ants of Palestine to refrain not describe them as such. ling the Ball Straits to prevent, that at Agios Kyrikos on the them, a Dutch naval communt
They were not identified. As Buriated PressTM-
- Indonesian Java landed
que announced to-day.
minde
island there were 195 tuber
cular cases and 149 at Evdilon.
B.O.R.S Found
It was officially announced in Cyprus that 1,125 Jewish Im- migrants will sail from there on Monday to enter Palestino legally, migration quota of 760, with They comprise the April im-
ད The Republicans made an at The Greek Red Cross claimed, 375 remaining from the March tempt last Wednesday
Hamburg, May 17, to drive according to the Athens news quota after deduction of a num- of the Dutch naval sloop patrol agency, that only 23 tubercular her of auccessful illegal entries, The municipal authorities of ling the Straits, the communičuo | and pre-tubercular cases were Two British officers of the the Ruhr town of Herne, 10 said, adding that Indonesian found at Agios Kyrikos and at Royal Engineers, who were miles northeast of Essen, today coastal fire was silenced byEvdilon, and that only two had killed while dismantling & mine threatened to "go on strike" if Dutch naval vessels, but opened naked to be transferred to found on the Acre-Haifa Rail- immediate measures to relieve up again yesterday, allowing the Amaroussi, near Athens, for way on Thursday, were buried the food crisis. were not taken extremists to land-Reuter. treatment.-Reutor,
with military honoure at Haifa'at once-Reuter,
“JANE”
FORGIVE MY PRESUMPTION,
EXCUSE, MU{~ IT'S ALL A MISTAKE! WHERE'S THE MANAGER?
BUT, MY DEAR MISS JANE, YOUR AGENT DEDHT WARN HE YOU OBJECTED. TO DISPLAYING.
'LINGERIE!
AGENT MY FOOT!- I'M NOT A MANNEQUIN-ÉM. A DETECTIVE AND IT WAS MY COLLEAGUE WHO PHONED YOU!
GRACIOUS HEAVEN!-
DRIKCTIVE
YES-BUT FORGET IT!-
I CAME TO BUY A DRESS THAT WOULD MAKE ME, CONSPICUOUS NOT SPECTACULARI.....
from the threat or the use of force" pending_action_by____the Assembly on the report of the special fact-finding committee on Palestine.
Under Article 10 of the Palestine Government Press Or- dinance, editors of all news- papera in Palentine must pub- linh official communiques as "essential in the public inter- eat."—Roufer."
RELIEF AT AN END?
Washington, May 18. Senator Arthur Vandenberg Indicated Congress may close the door to further direct for- eign relief with approval, of] pending bills but he did not¦ forecast action an rehabilita Hon and other assistanco funds.
The chairman of the Sonato Foreign Relations Committed told reporters without elabora- tion that he expecta, do furthor direct relief bequests.
However, it zsoma likely Pro sident Truman must seok ad- ditional funds for economia - Matance for nations-hart hit by the war-Associated Press.
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