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SEVEN PRISONERS

SPANDAU

By Robert Haeger

OF

and

In the "secret citadel of Snan. the day the seven arrived by can't prove that. We are doing dan," a 76-year-old rambling plano from Nuremberg. Since everything the Russian___way red brick fortress on the west that date newsmen have been now, I gucas," and of Berlin, seven lendors of turned away from Spandau Sevara, months og, when Nazi Germany CAUBO trouble Army usually politely. Two furniture for the guarda among the harried Allies Just German reportera got rougher wardera was being moved in, buzzed by staying alive.

treatment, arrested, for "loiter- German neighbours Once integral parts of Hit- ing" in the vicinity.

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ler's war machina, the seven- American officials have said Nazis would lead. They dia- Rudolph Hess, Erich Raeder, they are willing to let reporters gustedly pointed to leather 'cou- 3 months..

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Dassive, but effective trouble- | yet materialised because he uncomfortable cramped cats. +4444 4444*6******essses į makers, nonetheless. They cannot get the approva: of his At least, that's the unverifiable

work quietly through nine hours three Allied oppoaite numbers. official version. dally, their only complaint be-| One American suggested One disgrunt ed oficial shrug- ing that they are treated na opening the prison to reporters ged his shoulders and predicted "crimina" rather than "politi- if only to allay "crazy" rum- that the rumours would soon re- cal prisoners."

aura which are rampant in the verse themselves and "well b Because of the importance of Germans population. He said. hearing about how we beat them the seven "guests" all four oc- "These guys are living just like to ribbons every day."-United

but we Press. cupying powers have a finger in any other prisoners i administering the old military prisch and they constantly hump into each other in doing the job.

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Two Hundred Thousand Dead In Punjab

New Delhi, Aug. 28.

CARNIVAL

BLIND UNDERPASS

SOUND HORN!!

Mr. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of the Dominion of India, today joined Pakis- tan's Health Minister, Ghazanear Ali Khan, in blaming the present trouble in the Punjab on the post-regime under Sir Evan Jenkins,、 the retired Governor of the state. "The trouble is due to past handling of the situa- tion and not to the present," he declared.

"There was a section of the "Governor's rule" in the Pun- jab for months past in which we had no hand, and the doing of which we protested repeated

Warsaw Is Making A

Bid For Life

in

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he added.

By Dick Turner

"Okay, man-hit your "A?!?"

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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By Shepard Barclay

"The Authority en Authorities"

er to

LEAD NO TRUMP It all sounded awfully strong to North, who gently invited slam STYLE "We have not a whadw of

with 6-Spades, which South pro doubt that what we are having Leading the top of your part- į perly passed. It's good he did, as today is the resut of the partner's bid suit is a bad habit if you he required gringon year's activities, inactivities How It always. The inte Wour make it.

West mechanically opened the and misdeeds in the Punjab,". Whitehead advised several ex-

ceptions. In most ordinary situatop his partner's club suit.

a fourth-best from

four or After his K won, he led to Enai's tion All

nore, if pu had not supported A, setting up South' Q. The rest the suit, was recommended, unless was easy for South, who took the you had touching honours at

remaining tricks. top or in some cccasions, the nce. Nate what would have happened At other times, if the declarer'sir West ich his club 8. The A bidding had Indicated a probable would have won and the returned honour or so in the suit, it could would have trapped the under say to underlead an honour in the K-, setting the one-too-high three-card suita No Trump style contract. With a club tour located in South's hand by his 2- No Trumps bid on the

Becond. round, West had every possible. good reason to lead, a law club. Instead of his top card.

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well as in Britain's bled waters further by talking sumercial balance, and many freely to roporters on July 18, ly.

Last week, Ghuzanear are beginning doubt the

to

Khan accused Sir Evan Jenkins, tendency, if not the quality, of

and his Government with rea- British leadership at this crucial |

ponsibility in the rioting. testing-time. Dr. Dalton's broad-

Mr. Nehru was addressing cast announcing the suspension of

correspondents before leaving the convertibility of sterling

for the Punjab tomorrow "for suggested almost that we had

a number of days."

Two-hundred thousand peo-of lead. reached the end of a chapter if

the end of the world. Whatever may be in store for ket and people make merry

ple are estimated to have died in the last ten days of com- the Poles are spite of the awful surroundings. Certainly it is a gloomy land- them politically,

The ruins loom In grotesque af munal rio.ing-in Punjab, digging into their war feritney f mark in the history of sterling.im stark ruins with an obvious titudes as far as the eye can see.

curfew-10 A 24-hour but it is only the beginning of a will to rebuild and struggle for a To really understand,

four days, with a two-hour 8 10 2 chapter. We have a great deal | future.

visit and look for himself. They break every afternoon was H876G One the surface at least, War-are awe-inspiring testimonials of imposed in Old Dehl from 4 more to do besides "convincing others that we mean business***

saw bustles with life. Dents are human brutality. being driven into the appalling But two years after-one-story and in writing the rest of this mass of wreckage, the restaurants concrete bulldings fringe many of hapter it is necessary to correct massof wreckage, the restaurants the areas of desolation, housing

impression

that display everything same supply abundant and excellent shops speakers, in the debates of which fod, there are many small pri- from furs to electrical gadgets and vale shops selling on a free mar Dr. Dalton complained, may have created. It is that in secking information about British--and | European-conditions, plans, and prospects the United States are serking wantonly to interfere with our domestic concerns. But there can surely be no resentment that the United States should be acting towards us as we should: undoubtedly have had to act to- wards then if the roles were reversed. Recognition of this fact was, indeed, implícit in Mr. Bevin's "grasping with both hands" at Mr. Marshall's sugges- tion of aid to Europe. For the | suggestion was that, as a condition | years

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art work to hams, roast chickens and liquors, Modest brick buildings are cropping out in the residential sections,

Top-Level Talks Street cart and buses have glass windows Earlier today, reports from Vulnerable Mr. North thought"|

might (Dealer: South. East. West val- - Again, traffic cops wear neat white Karachi-the Pakistan capital that not-vulnerable West

nerable), coats and a god proportion of the predicted a top-ovel confer Have been "payching" with

first If East bad robid hearts, North pedestrians are well dressed.

ence on the rioting in Lahore heart bid, so doubled the

time and thawed the suit himself rebid diamonds and South had Positive Effort

tomorrow between Lord Mount

on his second turn. After that called elubr, spade, and then No Rebuilding is going on much batten, the Governor General South decided to see if game was Trumps, what should West lead

in Berlin, of the Dominion of India, and (From the files of the "China mora noticeably than

not better makable in the major, against the No Trump game? where destruction, robusticised by Mr. Nehru. Mail."')

experience, came home to roost Mr. Nehru told correspon- It will be observed by a Goytrieved portion is small in rela and bestiality to an extreme with a vengeance. Warsaw's re- dents there had been "brutality crament notification that the lion to the enormous mass of the degree," on both aides in the

rubble, but it definitely shows Punjab. 24 years. This is a measure we extended for the further term of Dositive effort.

Officers of the Government On one side of the area of advocated in the f frequently

from Karachi, Lahore and else- destruction greatest

thewhere, had not shown that

have

land leases

are

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timation of the Chinesa, Into

run

standing-a relative term

the

Britain Blamed

Punjab

For Carnage

London, Aug. 28. Mahatma Gandhi's appointment as the Governor

the European countries (includ- ing ourselves) should prepare full belief that it will tend to give details of how they stood, what Hongkong property an established avenues General Sikorskiego and they could do for themselves, and and substantial value in the esorczolimskie. They form a wide sense of responsibilky which *3= | thoroughfare and the side still must govern all utterances at what help they wanted to restore whose hands a great portion of the line of buildings is

since the present moment, he said. their economies on a permanent it will ultimately fall, the present liberally with ruins ook out and Imminent danger for the

punctuated “At this time of grave crisis . General of India In place of Viscount Mount- It is understood that the European inhabitants being but

batten, who should be “recalled at once,” was .ver vast zone of complete deso. large numbers of people, preparation of these particulars birds of passage.

lation. On the other side of the only way in saving the situa

the only solution to the widespread massacre street stood one of

the world's

the Dominions taking

of Moslem men, women and children in East-. If further official aid is to flow The most contradictory reports finest railway stations. It and its tion is

ern Punjab, Ali Mohammed Khan, the Presi awift action as far as possible from America, that is the channel continue to arrive regarding the rubble or crazu skeletona.

surroundings are now fields

in cooperation."`

dent of the Moslem League Branch of Great through which it will flow. The ton. One gentleman in whom the facing the ruins, stands the hotel necessary

atste of popular feeling in Can-

On the Avenue Jepozolimskie,

Stressing that cooperation is Britain, told a press conference tonight.

between the two proof is in Mr. Snyder's state tullest confidence may be placed that was spared by the Germans Governments in the Punjab, these massacres fals, directly urgently, however, a situation "The responsibility of all area. Unless the Britleh act ment that the delegation under writes that all is quiet, that there becau Sir Wilfrid Eady in Washington are not more idlers than usual in because they were using it and Mr. Nehru said that, as well as

or indirectly, on Lord Mount could well arise in which either *** | which now did not ask for a new loan. Of the neighbourhood of the Fat personnel, newspapermen and a Defence Council meeting in Am Chairman of the Boundary the

shelters diplomatic the Lahore Conference and a batten, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, the the tota Moslem population of torica and that the respectable fow visitors.

subcontinent would be course it did not. The question Chinesa express az alarm at the are dingy and inadequate.

Its acermmodations bata (Punjab), Indian and Commission in India, Major steadily wiped out by mas. could only have arisen if he present state of affairs.

Pakistan ministers, with General T. W, Roes,, the Com-saere, or negotiation of out- British Government had sought Another, who we are sure has. Ham And Eggs ministers from the two Punjab mander of the Punjab Bound- side assistance would precipitate to anticipate the Paris response to neither motive nor wish to mis In its dinning room,, nowover, provinces, wou'd tour the riotary Force, Field Marshal Sir a third world war.” (FARE)

the Marshall suggestiun, More-represent, writer us:

the wasser himself suggesta ham torn areas.

Claude Auchinleek, the Supreme Moslem Bitterness "I never saw so many idle and fand eggs—and he brings three Tues., Thors, & Sat....... HK$180,-

as Mr. Snyder has also lose characters abrut

As far as the Government of Commander In India, und the

Mohammed Khan asacrted, the, fac eggs, mit one. It is a far cry from India was concerned, the pre- British Government," Molfum that every Moslem was today made clear, though Britain may lories as I saw the

other

day. London. In Warsaw the waiter sent problems were to bring med Khan declared." 300.- need help before the Marshall Many of the shops in China Street serves thick steaks, abundant

blaming Britain for every Mos- · relief to Isolated minorities In 400.- plan matures, the American Gov. are shut up, and a foreigner can vegetables and rich less topped West Punjab fand to arrangement's moral duty to stop im- the Hindus wore exploiting the British Govern- lem death. At the same time, inment could not grant if, oven noi stop to look at anything for with heaps of whipped w.ces for the evacuation of the re-mediately the horrible blood-Lord Mountbatten's name if they wanted to. It is, how by a mob of fifty to a hundred are shocking, judging by the ela fugees, he added-Router. ever, clear that Britain's own lirty, ragged and squalid idleration of the zloty to foreign cur- planning must be begun before who appear to have no employ-rency and Polish salary levels. the Paris report, Some outline mont."

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shel of innecent and harmless continue their systematic people. Lord Mountbattenlaughter. Moslem bitterness, should be recaled at once. As he added, was intensified by the soon as the responsibility falls fact that having repeatedly Lon Hindu loader, the blood placed faith in Britain's word, given by the Eady delegation in

shed and

should they had so often boon lot down. Washington, and more, by, Sir so late, and wasted so much time the workers to purchase at lower

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All over the boundaries in. Even Nanking, Aug. 28. Stafford Clipps, in his talks with upon actions which undoubtedly prices under state control, but of

this late hour, the the Punjab as well as in Bengal Mr. Clayton about Imperial Pre-not only in American eyes, have course this dzes not give them the Foreigners and overseas Chi-altuation could be. redeemed If and Assam, Mos em majority ferences. All these talks, includ-weakened it. But it is not, even leeway

as those with nese will be, exempted from the Britain would withhold, notl-¦ areas near the boundaries had capital lovy imposed on private fication of the clauses in the þren given over bystomatically ing those on the financing of the so, a hopeless case or any mere money to spend, British zone in Germany, those appeal for charity involving loss to numerous, however, to

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The Council also approved ¦ and :Hindustan, thus creating af, an-Reuter, idaman ont Poles do have money to spend selve interlocked with the Mar the recovery of Britain and The question of whether the drastic measures against hoard- situation which could be dealt 300,- shall plan. In them bargaining Europe. The United States can-cated stones will survive ing and speculation following with by the United Nations

London, Aug. 26. is not improper. It is inevitable; not be an oasis of prosperity in n indefinitely is one of considerable ti riss cf commodity ⠀ prices "Pakistan must today show Edward Temme, trainer and and, since a tase muist be poverty-stricken world. Any such debate. Many think they will be id all cities, which is blamed by the spirit of Is am to the world adviser to the Peruvian ramer, stated, our part is to make the idea would be as foolish as ferced out of business, gradually officials and merchants on Gen--the spirit of absolute, talor: Daniel Carple, announced today. most convincing case possible. It own Government's original at least, by state enterprises. But oral Wedemeyer's undiploma-ance," said Mohammed Khan. that he will go Dover tonight to there la enough, hope, how, ori fle farewell atément" urging "Whatever happens in India, discuss the possibility of making of course, a great pity that notion that Socialism would

enough gambling spirit or shor the Government started actions automatically generate greater necessity to keep them going immediate Government reor. we, in Paklatan, are going to a channet attempt, tomorrow,

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