THE CHINA MAIL, Wednesday, APRIL '19,`1049.
GERMAN DIPLOMATS Invader In
FOUND GUILTY OF PLANNING FOR WAR
Nuremberg, April 11.
An American War Crimes Court today found five top Nazi diplomats guilty of planning Hitler's aggressive wars,
The "Wilhelmstrasse" trial. of 21 former German officials and advisers neared its end when the, Judge, Mr. William Christianson, of Minne- sota, began reading the 832-page judgment early today.
The verdict, the longest in the 12 Nuremberg war crimes trials, will be read in rofays by the throe judges in four full Court days.
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The tribunal said that silver- haired Ernst Vun (Welzsaecker, former Secretary of State of the German Foreign Office, guilty of planning the invasion of Czechoslovakla, but that he explicitly warned Britain of Hitler's impending attack Poland.
The others, found Kuilty of planning aggressive war, were: Wilhelm Keppler, Hitler's spretal economic adviser, Ernest Worr- mann, former chief of the Poh- tical Division of the German
Paul Foreign Office,
Koerner. Goering's
permanent deputy for the four-year plan, mut Hans Lammers, former chief of
the Reich Chancellery
The court ruled that none of the 17 former Nazi diplomats are cused of waging appressive war had acted under corpion duress. Any of them who had op posed war schemes had sat as little as he could, and i words
and crimes peace, war crimes
I found that against humanity. Welzsnecker, as an implementer and not mu un originator, hadi
done everything in his power to invasion of Poland. warn Britain of the impending Murder Of R.A.F. Officers
The court found four .top Nails guilty of war crimes in- volving the murder of 50 Royal Air Force officers who escaped from a Staingluft and the lyn ching of other Allied Ayers. The pulgment dealt at length with attempts by twen of the guilty Nazis, Gustav Strengracht Von Moyland, forms German Secretary, Foreign Offre State TAPACE Kurt Ritter, Baison offeer between the Foreign Offley anci the Wahruncht, to cover up the RAF morders by seating false diplomatic notes to the British Government.
The tribunot found that the "Talte reports which Ritter help-
as soft and innocuous as he could) ve to draft and which Steen-
find,
gracht transmitted, stupkt ond
The
other
two Nazis found guilty on this war crimes charge were Hans Lammers, chief of the Reich Chancellery, and Gottlob Berger, one-time 85 Lieutenant Colonel and chief
95 of the Headquarter.
The Tribunal found that Rii- ter was instrumental in fabri- cating a note to be relayed to the British Government atating bad that certain "death zones" been established for testing ac- erot weapons in which escaping
stood in clanger prisoners being shot as spies.
False Report
of
The Clyde
Glasgow, April 11. The 7,000-ton `Lematerkerk, the feat of five Dutch ships "Invading" Britain in an at- tempt to snatch freight in the India
rate-sluching "war," arrived in the Clyde today.
Bhe was two days late ow. ing to stress of weather on the way from Oslo. She an chored off Greenook and did
take on not
any cargo, nor did she unload any,
She was supposed to picking up merchandise con. algned to India, Pakistan and Ceylon, Tomorrow she calle South for Liverpool-Reuter.
KRAVCHENKO CASE APPEAL
COCHIN CHINA POLLS:
TREND FAVOURS UNION
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Saigon, April 12.
Early returns from Cochin China's Consultative As- sembly elections favour Vietnamese candidates who support union with. Annam and. Tonkin under former Emperor Bao Dai, according to reports reaching here yesterday.
Cochin China is the area at the Southern tip of Indo- china and has been administered directly as a French colony.
ever
The French Government re- subject to execution 1f cently approved the establish- captured by the robola. ment of n Cochin China
French Military authorities an- Assembly, and decided to permit nouneed that land, air gud naval the union with other Indo-forces hind inflicted heavy losses Chinese areas If the inhabitants on Viet Minh wish it.
Moon.
near Longthan,
rebels recently some 12
miles
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Bao Dai, with France's bless-East of Saigon. Ing. is expected to resume bis Tho forces ralded A series of throne In Anaam ond Tunku rebel supply depots and destroy- ed guns, ammunition and petrol, the French said, They said the Navy captured niore than 200 elated Prese
The electors are to name mem-
Paris, April 11. While this notice was designed
An appeal against the judg- in deter further escapes, the tri- bunal also interpreted its actualments in the libel case brought| meaning as a camouflage to con-by Victor Kravchenko, Russian-bers of two branches of the Con- small Viet Minh vespela.—Asso- | ceal the murder of other escap-borg author of the anti-Soviet
ing prisoners.
Ritter was also implicated in drafting a note to Britain which reported that the 50 Royal Air Force officers had bern shut while resisting copture, though he' knew that the police teletype re- ports on which this information was based were false.
The judgment sold that, as
best-seller "I Chose Freedom,"
against the French Communist weekly. "Les Lettres Fran- caises,"
was lodged by a Paris lawyer, Maitre Marcel Jarry, today.
residents and the other for Viet- namene. First reports showed a high percentage of abstentions Among qualinect Vietnamese voters. French authorities put this down to either indifference or fear of reprisals.
sultative group one for "French
The Viet Minh radio previous- Maitre Jarry was neling on be half of M. Claude Morgan, mana-y had carried threats against any participated In ger of "Les Lettres Francaises," Vietnamese who Mr. Andre Wurmser, writer of an the vote. In one Saigon section article In
registered Vietnamese, the weekly which of 4,800 Kravchenko complained of, and only 389 cast ballots. the paper Itself.
Hresult of conversations to- tween Wolzinecher and Bir Nevile Henderson, then British Ambaxandar in Berlin, it was,
M. Morgan and M. Wurmser open to Britain either to en were each fined 5,000 francs and deavour to block the execution | Kravchmko wes awarded dam- of any pact between Germany ages of 50,000 francs on euch of and Rusala or, if this were im three plaints by Judge Henri.
Maitre practicable, otherwise to pre Durkheim on April 4. pare for the event.
Jarry appealed against all three Judgments.-Router. "L is significant
that Weiz-
Only 17 of the defendants were inept as they were, were intend- in court today. The other four vd in deceive both the pro-sarcher plolnty warned the Bri- berting power (Switzerland) and tish of the danger of war and of The tribunal aequilted all 15 Greet Britain. and at least to ler's attitude before the Su
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was signed (August 23, 1939), and informed Sir Nevile Henderson that he believed that the Soviet Union would even in the end join in sharing the Polish spoils."
The Cochin China election re- sults are not expected to affect rebellion which Moscow. the
has been trained Ho Chi-minh waging against the French for the pust two years.
secret radio Ho chi minh's already has branded Bao Dal a "traltor" and a "war criminal"
UN HAS RIGHT TO PROTECT AGENTS
The Hague, April 12.
Court of Justice yesterday ro- cognised the right of the United Nations to protect its agents in the performance of their duties.
The judgment spiel Keppler The International played an important part in the mivasion of Austrin and acted willing participant in nego- tiating the fall of Czechoslova- klu.
An opinion had been re- Faked Incidents quested by the UN Assembly in the light of attacks on UN Woermann provided the border agents, following the assassina- Incidents, intended to place on tion in Palestine of the UN Poland the responsibility for the mediator, Count Folke Berna- outbreak of war, but the (ribunal | dotte. exonerated him from blame in
The Court deelded by
for
recognition of the United Na- tion as an entity able to bring
ments
AUSSIE LABOUR DISPUTE
Melbourne, April 11, Forty thousand coal and in- dustrial workers in New South Wales are estimated to have struck work in protest against the imprisonment of a trade union official for contempt of court.
Reports suggest, however, thut the country-wide wave of labour hold-ups, inspired by the sen- ience, may be subsiding, despite renewed calls for strike action.
Stoppages have already cost the country thousands of man- hours, and more than 37,000 tons of enal have been lost in New South Wales pits.
Melbourne
dockers 'seamen, and Iron-workers re duc to walk out tomorrow but Sydney Iron-workers have agreed to re- turn to work. Vietoria railway- men have also agreed to stay at work,
legal action against govern. The spute is over the one- month imprisonment of a union At Lake Success yesterday, the official-Leslie John McPhillips, Political Committer, overriding Assistant Secretary of the Asso- the Soviet bioc's objections, vol- Federated Iron-Workers
41 to six, with France, eiation-and hos been freely
11 to Australia and the Yemen abstain- described in the press here as
a special 14-nation a struggle between Communists
United Nations velo-Russia. Į
Russin, Poland,
the Ukraine and Czechoslovakia opposect. The Commission will include the United States, Rus
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the attacks on Russia, the Low four vote that the UN has the ing, to create a Countries and nine other nations. right to claim reparations for commission to investigate und and moderates for control of key
or on behalf report on the establishment of untons. Lammers wns said beyond damages to itself
a criminal of a UN agent, doubt to have been
However, the Court also held, participant in the German plans
by n 10 to
Ave
vote, that the UN aggression against sovel
reparations from a in claiming European countries,
state, may do so only by claiming deputy, Paul that reparations are due because sia, France, China, Britain, Aus- As Goering's Koerner must have been aware of n
tralia, Brazil, Colombia, Czecho of the aggressive nature of the The dissenting votes in the slovakia, Greece, Pakistan, Swe- plans under consideration, the first, and principal, decision were den and Haiti, tribunal thought, because the cast by judges from the United The proposed UN guard will real aim of the four-year plan States, the Soviet Union, Poland be a force of between 800 and 5,000 men-Associated Press and was to prepare Germany fer und Egypt.
war.
The court found Gottlob guilty of having actively helped to plan the murder of General Mesny, of the French Army, as a reprisal for the killing of a German general by the French Muquis, General Meany was killed by
SS men dressed Os ordinary soldiers while being moved from une camp to another, but was cially reported as having been while attempting to escape. Lammers was also found guilty of helping to carry out à secret order to prolect German civilians who murdered Allied airmen 1 Reuter.
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