1948-10-27 — Page 5

Of War And Its Aftermath

Grieving relatives kneel before the flag-draped caskets containing the bodles of French war heroes of the North African campaign. In ceremonies at the Invalides, in Paris, the first contingent of French war

dead was returned to native soil.

Bridge House War Crimes Trial

The Prosecution

(Continued from Page 1)

will call John near to death, Blenkinsop states that from his own personal obser- vatten there can be no doubt that Iutton had been subjected to some terrible form of torture which re- sulted in his death.

Martin Watson who whi give evidence of his own imprisonment

Jessileld Road. in

Watson Is at present the Divisional Superlaten- dent of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Asscelation In Shanghal but at the lime in ques- tion he had been a member of the Shanghai Municipal Police imme- diately prior I his internment, Watson will say that us a result of a false and revengeful statement by a elvillan policeman both he and Hutton were arrested оп morning of August the 2nd 1943. Hutton also had previously been a member of the Shanghini Municipal Police with the rank of Inspector These two men were removed from Haiphong Road Camp, where they had been interned together will other civillons, and they were both taken to 94 Jessfield Nood where they in the were searched and placed cells which had been constfutted

there.

the

CARVED OWN SKIN Stephen Douglas Sturton, OBE a Doctor of Medicine saw Hutton on his return to Halphong Road and has described certain marks which were cut into Hutton's flesh. These marks were in the form of letters. This evidence will be corroborated by on affidavit of Dr Calame who, as leader of

of doctors, carried group of fot out a post mortem examination of Hutton's body in the presence of Dr Croset representing the Swiss Consul The Prosecution General.

will

Shove that before he died

while Hutton, in a mental and physical state of degeneration due to his tortures, had carved various letters and words onto his own skin. The Prosecution on'a will produce photographs of Hutton's body, taken during the post mortem examination which clearly show the deep wounds on the wrists, where the victim was so tightly bound that the ropes cut deeply into the flesh, and the general condition of the body.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1948.

Communist Aid To Greek

Guerillas Condemned

Paris, Oct. 26-After two days of East-West skirmishing on pre- liminaries, the United Nations Political Committee began today to debate the Greek problem. The Committee had before it a report by the Special Committee of nine nations on the Balkans, which called on the General Assembly to con demn Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania for helping the forces of General Markos, the guerilla leader.

The Committec's report said:1 "Great quantities of arms, am- munition and other military supplies had been furnished to the Markos' forces with the knowledge of these govern- ments."

But it added that there was "less evidence" of supplies from Yugoslavin "In recent months."

After the Committee had rejected Yugoslav application for General Markos to be heard, the debate proper was opened by Mr. P. Pipinelis (Greece), who demanded that the Assembly should not allow Its authority to be flouted by Greece's thrée northern neighbours,

DECREE NISI GRANTED

over

{

Mr Pipinella asked two questions; measures being taken by the Sevlet

extend its power 1. Are these countries prepared Union to to put an end to their activity which Berlin. is keeping aflame the Arcs burning "Wherever one looks, there # relentlessly. in Greece?

apparent the came pattern ot 2 Ara Uley prepared to show their effort-namely, the Incitement, from and fear and goodwill by allowing United Nations without, of coercion investigation on the spot, as Greece, violence within, to achieve inter- has donor.

national political objectives" MUST DECIDE

Mr Dulle said that looking at the Greek case, where the Balkon Com- He added that, if no satisfactory mitice found unanimously that the replies were forthcoming, "the As-northern neighbours of Greece were sembly must take decisions which guilty of intervention, people would will impel respect." He said that he tempted to think that the United the licilcnic delegation would not Nations had failed. hesitate to propose, at the right moment, the lines on which such decisions could be taken.

Mr John Foster Dulles, who is the US, Republican Party's foreign affales expert, said: "Ia Greece Communist are attempting to over- throw

the government by violence, and In this effort

they are receiving nid from other countries that are already Communist-controlled.

CONCLUSION UNJUSTIFIED "Such a conclusion is totally un- Justified. In fact, the General As~ It has not embly has not failed. achieved immediate obedience to its will. But the General Assembly depends primarily on the power of public opinion and to build that up inkes power, pallence and per- gistence.

"There can, I think, be no doubt Mrs Dora Marjory Begdon, secre-

"This violent effort to established that the norther neighbours of

Gresce tary, residing at the Helena May in

a Communtet government Greece have in fact been restrained Institute, was granted a decree nist is but part of a general effort to ex- by the presence of the Committed by the Chief Justice,

Lestle tend the power of Soviet Commu- and its power of exposure at this

of the world. "Tho

Sir

Gibson, in the Divorce Court thisnism throughout the world. The town cord before as is bad-it

morning. The suit was against Security Council has been consider- Klerim Begdon, of the Public Belaing another phare of this problem is dismally bad--but it is not faini- tions Division of the Ministry of when it denit with the coercive

ly bad, for Greece survives."

Mr Dulles Postwar Reconstrution in Australia,

declared that the and was undefended. The ground!

United States, Britain. France and

for divorce

desertion. WIS

The

China were submitting a joint re- decree is to be made absolute in six

Rolution, which would call on the months with liberty to apply.

Assembly to continue the Balkan Commission in its work of persund- ing the countries ON

Greece's northern border to desist from sup- plying old to her insurgents.

Mr Charles E. Loseby, Instructed by Me M. A. da Silva, appeared for petitioner.

GUN BATTLE IN

SHUMCHUN

Meeting Of China Underwriters

After Mr Hector McNell of Britain had spoken, the Committee adjourned allow delegates to prepare for Yugoslavla's

first

thing speech

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The 20th annual general tomorrow.-Reuter. meeting of shareholders of China Underwriters, Ltd. was held at noon today.

Present at the meeting were Mr I. W. Shewan (Chairman of the Board of Directors), the

Hon Leo

A gun battle In Shumchun yes- terday morning, in which a Chinese soldier was killed and two others wounded in a clash with bandits, is reported in the Chinese D'Almada, Dr J. W. Anderson, Mr Li Tse-long (Directors). Mr E. R.

Director), It appears that

Childe (Managing bandits entered East Gate Street the following shareholders: Messrs Shumchun and opened fire on the

Dreyer, J. Leung Nal-yuen, H. Dick, F. G. Borros, A. A. Botelho and Koksang "Woo.

press,

3t

troops.

about 7 0.71,

The two wounded men were re- moved to Kowloon Hospital

in

and

The Chairman reported a net pro- nt of $32,833. He stated in part:

Political and economic conditions in some of our more active flelds,

Malayo, Soule- notably

the Netherlands

Mrs Kasenkina's

Own Story

(Continued from Page 4)

"Oh, it's just nerves, must be a rash.' I remarked, dismissing the matter. At the time nothing else could have entered my mind.

It was

only many days later, when I was already recovering from my injuries in the Roosevelt Hos- during plial, that my experiences that night assumed a sinister signi- The note of Molotov to ficance. the United States Ambassador was read to me, in which the Soviet Foreign Minister had put special emphasis on the cause of the spots on my arm as they were exhibited to the press while I was held In the Soviet Consulate. I then re- called my condition during the night of July 30.

Patrick Samuel Gibbons, Alexander Haindrava, Morris Joseph vitch, Evans Daw, Borris S. Frank Indies and particularly Burma, give who rise to some anxiety but the direct and Boris Topas, all persons

result of claim the dge effects on us as a Bridge the were Imprisoned House, Shanghai. In addition there arising from the disturbed condi- are three men who were ill-treated ttcns prevailing have been

small and it is hoped that our in the Union Jack Club premises on Myrburgh Hoad In Shanghai, these business will not be seriously inter- China has remained fered with. are: Eric Davies, J. A. Cook, B. F.

practically a closed field owing to currency conditions.

Young.

BRUTÁLLY BEATEN Watson will describe the treatment] which he received, while he was detained in these cells.

He will describe how He was brutally beaten, He will describe how he was sub- jectext to the

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painful water With this, and other evidence, the

The Prosecution will call evidence torture, and he will describe how his Prosecution will, 1 submit, ennel to prove that, in the case of each torturers gave him electric shocks sively prove that the persons men- in order to make

of these civilians, they were im- bim confess to tioned in this first charge, were imaginary offences. From the evi- brutally B-treated and inhumanly

prisoned in the places mentioned, usually without any charges being Yoshida, preferred against them. dence of this witness the Court will tortured by the nccused

Watson was imprisoned in and that at the time of these tor- the cell opposite to that in which tures the accused Kinoshita was the William Hutton was confined and on Officer-In-Charge of the Kempeitai

very

Molotov accused my imaginary abductors of "violently administer- ing a narcotle substance to Kasen- weakening her will" king clearly with the purpose of

FIRST YEAR PREMIUMS First year premiums are far above any previous year's figures in the Company's history. Renewal war premiums do not yet reach prewar level. owing to business which

This fantastic Invention provided went off due to the wur, but our The Prosecution will prove that total premium Income of $969,365 clue to the mystery of those marks It Portiniakov had already exceeds that

1940 on my arm. In

slipped some drug into my food, several occasions he saw Hutton-be-Units in Shanghai, including the they were imprisoned in unhealthy(15)

and will bring ($715,088)

The Inducing deep sleep, it would have

been no problem for him to

that

body.

of tortures, continuous and inhuman,

Super-

were concerned in his ill-treatment

SECOND CHARGE

Kinoshita:

that all these vorious

Fira

Revenue

Account:

Las

was

enter

ing beaten mercilessly by the accused branch in which there war crimes and dirty cells,

to show cyldence heard Hutton's took place against helpless and itt- Yoshida, and ho

Agures Bre much larger than men were subjected to screams of agony while Yoshida hit nocent civilians.

kinds of 1-treatment and tortures 1948 owing partly to our increased my room and administer a couple of hypodermic Injections. After all, Hulton with rifle and stamped

however, in the show trials of the Great business which, The Prosecution will prove that the carried out with deliberate inten-direct on hils broken, yet living. | death of William Hutton followed as

still rem na below prewar Agures Purge, the official Soviet records tion by the Kempeitai personnel Watson witnessed Hutton

a direct result of tortures which he

working under the accused General but mainly to our resumption of growing gradually mad as the result received at the hands of the

The accused was often participation in worldwide Treaty cite evidence of the NKVD use of

such methods. present in the same building at the reinsurance business. Unfortunate

Come the critical morning of The Prosecution will brine vidence Japanese, and that these accused men

time of these repeated atrocities. ly, while our direct business was

July 31. bade goodbye to Porojnia- satisfactory, our Treaty business re-

kov, wh

whose wife was in the coun- The Prosecution will, I submit, flected the

DI experience most try, and left by cab for the pier. prove conclusively that General Companies with worldwide connec- Kinoshita was well aware of the tions in showing a somewhat ad- orojniakov said that he would be

at the boat later. appalling conditions under which verse result. these prisoners, and numerous other However, in total, the balance of Evidence the account is more than sufficient to cover the usual 40 percent reserve

unexpired, risks, ' Shareholders will be glad to hear that, although we carried very large insurances on the Kowloon Whart and Wing On godowns in Hongkong suffered disastrous which recently

reinsurance fires, our conservative

to show Hutton was eventu...ity strip-} and denth. ped naked under Yoshida's vision, and that flutton was then tied

The Second Charge is laid against up with a rope-like one would the the accused General Kinoshita Elich up a pig. Yoshida assisted in this only and it deals with the - was treatment and death of a Chinese being tied

in this up

way male named Vong. Mutton shouted that he wag The Prosecution will prove that being killed, but the more he shouted Vong was imprisoned in the Bridge tions in the cells and the methods the more he was beaten by Yoshida House cells in November 1942, and und others.

brutality. While Hulton

Waston will tell this Court his own protests to the

but

was

of

civilians, were confined.

will be called to prove the condi-

of torture.

to

almost completely mud

wrists

ment, and he will recall how, on

Into

WHI

worked their way deep

naked flesh. Watson

to untle these ropes,

undoing the

knote with his teeth. This occurred

In

TORTURES DESCRIBED

On the way had fears of possible pursuers. I proceeded to Zenzinov's apartment, where he awaited me. My tension must have been sear breaking point.

Most of my hand luggage

I left Mr in

Zenzinov's place before Tolstoy form. proceeding to the The suggestion was made that I spend the weekend in a New York lotel, but this terrifled wanted to get out of New York as quickly as possible.

Sua

me,

Kasenkins found

I

(Tomorrow: Reed Farm and what Mrs there.)

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that he died in those cells as a direct result of the inhuman ill-treatment which he then received. The Pro-

In the case of witnesses who are guards secution will prove that Vong was over Hutton's pltlable condition as deliberately starved to death.

now at remote distances the Prose- Hulton ay groaning and calling in

The Prosecution will call the evi-

culon will lender their evidence in pain, but Watson's only answer

dence of Mr H. F. Pringle who will the form of affidavits or other writ-policy reduces our net loss to a com- paratively small figure which will be from the Japanese a beating

say that Vong was imprisoned for ten testimony. for himself.

I would mention the following easily taken up in the current year's Nearly all my savings had been 27 days. During the whole of this

Prosecution figures.

unk in articles which were at that MENTALLY DERANGED

tortures to which the starved of all food perlod he was

EFFECTIVE STEPS

moment being loaded On to the Hutton was left in his cell, bound and water. Ho was thrashed and witnesses will testify.

Prisoners wero slapped and Accident Revenue Account: This ac-Soviet vessel. Mr Zenzinov and I with ropes, for five days; naked and beaten almost daily until he died.

beaten

count continues to do small although travelled by motor bus to the farm kicked.

with They were Althy and mentally

last deranged. Pringle will describe Vong's

exceed those which was to be my shelter. objects.net nemturns at $70,730 days of starvation and death.

bamboo poles and other Finally Watson was ordered to go

In prewar years (1940; $002).

at the restful When I arrived Our claims experience was not good, Their naked bodies were subjected into Hutton's cell and release him Pringle will describe how Vong's

terrible torlures includnit, the principally in the motor car section or Reed Farm, to be welcomed by the from his ropes. At that time Hut-hands were kept in handcuffs for

our business, but the underwriting has gracious Alexandra Tolstoy,

premiuma in- been tightened up and pitiable sight, still bound the whole period of his imprison- water torture which rendered them ton was a Dow

unconscious through had into them created, a gind to say at these thought that my woes had come to

of water into them. steps appear to have been effective and an end. after his days of continued agony one occasion. Your bad of shords in addition to this these prisoners the 1948 results to date are very much

ropes lying his

manacled outside the bars the cell

to eletric better. The white his hands were beaten with

were often subjected

31_ necessary to transfer $8,000 tromm Pront and Loss in order to carry for shocks applied to the tenderest parts made for merey, but received

a rope. Vong screamed and cried

iled They were

ward the usual 40. percent of premiums no mercy. of their bodies,

and helpless, while

fai unexpired risks. Vong died after 27 days and Pringle down, naked and

· Marine Account: This account reflects on Friday 13th of August, and an will tell of the condition of the

in the furishing trade conditions in 1917. burning cigaret.cs were placed

Fatal Air Crash this mame day Watson and Hutton corpse when he helped to remove their nostrils, and applied to sensi- net premium at 1100,445 comparing with causing $142.87 In 1940 and $250,233 in 1940. The were driven back to Halphong Rond

live parts of their bodies

Italian latter figure was swollen by high war

26. Two Turin, Oct. being businessmen, Michele will prove that excrutating pain and often renderik, premiums, the 1930 ngure the 15th

Vitre and Camp. On Sunday

$130.434, August Hutton was removed to the the accused Generni Kinoshita Ing the victims inconscious.

Claims were light at $30,090. Asli Serció Favosi, were killed in an air also prove The Prosecution will

plane Country Hospital where he died the inspected the cells during Vong'a

Imprisonment and that Kinoshita that prisoners were subjected to prewar chama have now been finalised crash today. Their tourist

was found that our estimate for

crashed in the Alpine foothills near same day.

been overstated order to these had

by about condition, these and other tortures in

Casale Monferrato. Reuter. saw Yong's A statement by Hans Rechlin will personally

confess

to imaginary been carried into account.

$25.000, a release of this ametint has be tendered to corroborate

was in complete

Balance Sheet: Vald up Capital in- evidence. Rechlin states that he Kinoshita identince Yostida as the man who absolute command of the Kempeltal tortured Hutton. Rochlin describes units at that time, Including the swom statements of the accused in standing entis bald during 1947.

further Calls were paid during 1948 and which General Kinoshita states that 19.791 shares which were still in default

visited the Units un-in respect of the 1040 call were for

6, Programme Summary: 4.01. "Count and re-allotted; so that all shares ara of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas, testify that the accused personally new fully paid to the extent of $7 per (BBCTS): Eplode : "T715 31st of May":

conditions under share.

0.30, Wednesday Serenade": 1, "t's in I will now deal with the Third saw the revolting

Thoadoption of the Report and the Air". Variety Request Programme Rechlin states that when Hutton Charge which lies against Kinoshita which theso prisoners were con first came into the cells he appear only, and which relates to the all-

Aned, and in the light of this, and Accounts was seconded by Mr 11. Dreyer. Presented by Susan Howard (studio): 0. Confirmation of Mr E R. Childe's World and flome News (London Relay): "London Calling Europe", The ed to be normal ant in good physical treatment of the following civilians, other evidence, the Prosecution will appointment as Director was proposed by 8.15.

Mr J. Dick and avoonded by Mr Loung story at the European Services of the condition.

B.B.C. (BECTB); D.18, Purcell: Sulle for J.E.P. Blenkinsop, who was a Chier mentioned in the charge, resulting show that General Kinoshita

Closing Times Ely Bea & Train Air A. A. Botelho proposed, and Mr Birings....Philharmonto Symphony Orch concerned in the ill-treatment of Inspector in the Shanghai Municipal in physical suffering to them nil:

in The Roverend W. II. Hudspeth, these persons mentionel

"Anthology" Pronted Canada Vin Vancouver, B.C.. (Sea) 5 p.m. the G. Barros seconded the re-election of of NY 9.30,

Anderwort and the Police, has stated that when Ifulton

Iton Leo by

Davies (Ahudio): 10, Clifford

Amey (ta) 3 þm. World and Home News (London Stelay); || Mania (Bes) 3 p.m., was taken out from the Haiphong Henry Forsythe Pringle, Edwin Ar-Charge, and that this ill-treatment d'Almada, MC, as Directors.

amounted to a War Crime against the Meats Lowe, Bingham and Maithawi 10.15, "Fleet Street' A Feature Pro Halhow at Hangkok (Rea) 3.pm. Road Camp on the 2nd of August thur Thompson, Kenneth William

and Memrs Percy, Bullh & Co., were ramme by dordon Cruikshank (Londors Macao and Thington (Ron) 4 pm. he was in perfect health, but that Jolinstone. James Robert Canning, Laws of Humanity, and against the

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Leung Nal-yuan, seconded by Mr Kok. tre: 11, Radio Nawereet (London Relay); | Canton (parcels)

8. p.m. The trial is proceeding.

Kong Woo.

11.18. Weather Report and Chee Down unconscious state and apparently cent Toovey Dean, C. D. Kumareff,

it from the cell.

of The Prosecution

and offences

this The Prosecution will show that make them that the Japduce the cludes more than $53,000 of old out-

his own beatings and tortures and he Bridge House, and further, that he

The pition will

Some

states that Yoshida and other Japanese | ignored Vong's crica for food and he person command, Witnesses will foited in March last and afterwards sold

used to enter Hutton's cell and water. lighten the ropes with which he was bound.

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