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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1949.

U.S. WAR CRIMES COURT

POCKET CARTOON

-London Express Servtet).

Italy Seeks Her Former Colonies

Ethiopia Resists

Claims

FINDS NAZI DIPLOMATS GUILTY

wars.

Nuremberg, Apr. 11.-An American War Crimes Court today found five top Nazi diplo- mats guilty of planning Hitler's aggressive The "Wilhelmstrasse" trial of 21- former German officials and advisers neared its end when the Chief Judge, Mr. William Christianson, of Minnesota, began reading the 832-page judgment carly today.

The verdict, the longest in the 12 Nurem- berg war crimes trials, will be read in relays by the three judges in four full Court days. The tribunal said that silver-haired Ernst Von Weizsaecker, former Secretary of State of the German Foreign Office, was guilty of planning the invasion of Czechoslovakia, but that he "explicitly warned" Britain of Hitler's im- pending attack on Poland.

The others, found guilty of planning agres- Hitler's sive war, were: Wilhelm Keppler, special economic adviser, Ernst Woermann, for- mer Chief of the Political Division of the Ger- man Foreign Office, Paul Koerner, Goering's per- manent deputy for the four-year plan, Hans Lammers, former chief of the Reich Chancellery..

The court ruled that none of į Henderson, then British Am- the 17 former Nazi diplomats bossador in Berlin, it WBS accused of waging aggressive open

Britain "either 10 under coerejon jendeavour to block the execu-

to

Lake Success, Apr. 11.war had acted Ethiopia, victim of Italian or duress. Any of them whoįtion of any pact between Ger- aggression in 1934, today had opposed war schemes had many and Russia or, if appealed

as he could, and were Impracticable, to the United "said as lille

this otherwise

signifienert that

In word as soft and innocuous to prepare for the event,' Nations to save her from he could And." another Italian "pincer" in Only 17 of the defendants "It Eritrea and Somaliland, were in court today. The other Weizzancker plainly warned the which should place her once more in the "jaws of lion."

Mr Alo Aklilu, the Ethio- plan representative, told the Political Committee, which debating the fate of the former Italian colonies, that Italy could show a "lamentable re- cord of occupation in Eritrea."

four are ii in hospital.

sus

British of the danger of war The tribunal acquitted all 17 and of Hitler's attitude before who appeared today on the the Soviet-German Pact charges of evolving a plan or signed (August 23, 1939), and crimes informed Sir Neville Henderson conspiracy to

commit against the peace, war crimes that he believed that Russian and crimes

to the Poles would against humanity, resistance found

us an not only be entirely negligible Welzsaecker, implementer and not as an but that the Soviet Union would originator," had donc titing in his

every-even in the end join in shar- to warning the Polish spolls." Britain of the Impending in- vasion of Poland.

power

INVASION OF AUSTRIA

The judgment said Keppler played "an Important part" in the invasion of Austria and

Georges H. Westbeau plays with his pet lioness, Tyke, which the sheriff's office at Auburn, Wash., has or- dered Westbenu to keep either penned or tied. It seems the 200-pound animal makes

some folks nervous. Tyke and Westbeau live on n ranch near Auburn.- AP-Picture.

$8,000 Damages

Awarded

JUST BEING FRIENDLY

Israeli

Has Role

To Play

Plea For War Time Filipino Guerillas Rejected

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Washington, Apr. 11.-The Army Secre- tary, Mr Kenneth Royall said today there. would be no point in giving unrecognised Fili- pino guerilla units another chance to qualify for back pay and veterans' benefits.

He added the "army considers the re- cognition programme properly terminated" on June 30 last year.

Mr Royall made these sinte out of their rightful claims and ments in a letter reply to a he made a special appeal that query

by Senator Millard this alleged wrong be righted. Tydings.

The Embassy military al- A group Identifying them fache, Colonel Jaime Velasquez, selves as the Washington mis- said he never heard of the "Fil- nion for the "Filipino Guerilla pino Guerilla Veterans Lagion" Veterans Legion" petitioned Senator Tydings,

as Chairman Mrs Block brought her problem to him. But he Indi- of the Senate Armed Services ented that both he and Ambas Committee, to introduce a bilizador Elizalde saw a basis for to reopen the guerilla recogui- Pamintuan's grievance. tion programme and to re- Colonci Velasquez appropriate 200,000,000 pesos to that the Philippine Ambassador reported pay oft additional Luerillas had written Mr Royall asking found deserving.

to look into Mra Mamerta Block, a Filipino

the matter. is now The Embassy and her husband Isaac, a United for a reply. States citizen and a former GI

Meanwhile, the Philippines, told the United Press today they head said the army was "fully cogni- Senator Tydings, Mr Royall the mission here. They began

sant of the splendid services In December to press the case

retno rendered of 151,000 Filipinos who they guerillas and the matter of re- by the many Filipino asserted, are Insuficiently re- warded as "legitimate claimants,” i vi

THE CLAIMANTS Mrs Block catalogued claimants us. follows:

in

these

1. Elghteen thousand gueril- Ins with papers to prove it.

2. Thirty-six thousand mein- bers of bonn Ade guerilla units" whose papers, were lost.

3. Thirty thousand unpaid "bona Ade USAFFE service men."

thousand

guerillas in

him

waiting

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Royal said guerlin units not favourably considered on In- Envoy's Address To Prewar Philippine Scouts who itini examination were permit- turned guerilla and whose led review of the case" and in Pres. Truman

clolms were unpaid.

many Instances more than two 5. Forty thousand "war; distinct field investigations were Washington, Apr. 11.- Widows, orphans and parents" made. President Truman

legitimate said

Including

political The Army Secretary contend- prisoners of wor.

ed that "all claims" were re- today that he was “firmly

Mr Mario Pamintuan, whose Investigated when the "evidence convinced of the necessity papers indicate he was a resis- warranted" and all'enrefully For the speedy establish-tance colonel in charge of an adjudged-United Press, ment of a true and equit northwest Pampange military

estimated 7,000 able peace between Israel district, joined the Blocks here

ATLANTIC PACT and its neighbours."

and helped them present the Washington, Apr. 11-Tho YE The President spoke at the case to Senator Tydings.

North Atlantic Fact is expected was replying to the

ceremonies at which the newly

to be presented to Congress to- BASIS FOR GRIEVANCE earlier speech of Count Carlo

RAF MURDERS Sforza,

appointed Ambassador of Israel,

morrow, it was stated officially. Pamintuan contended that only Mr Charles Ross, the Presiden the Italian Foreign

The court found four top

Mr Eliahu Elath, presented his 1,793 of his guerillas were re-tiat Press Secretary, sald Preal- Minister. Mr Akillou said the Nazis gulity of war crimes in-

credendals to the President. four-power Commission report valving the murder of 50 Royal acted as a willing participant Reversal Of Supreme

cognised despite the fact that dent Truman's message accom Ambassador Elath showed clearly that over 30 Air Force officers wito escaped in

sold that higher army headquarters au- panying the Act would deal only percent of the population

Israci "will seek to express her thorised the recognition of all with the treaty and not the arms of from Stalag Lufi und

moral heritage Eritrea

was opposed to a re-lynching of other Allled dyers.

make yet another contribution administrative slipup cut, 6,007-Reuter.

and to the 7,000. He charged the army programme for Western Europe. turn of the Italians.

The judgment dealt at length Woermann provided the He added that he was parti.with attempts by two of the "border incidents," intended to Judicial Committee of the

London, Apr. 11-The to civlisation

He said cularly shocked

Gpince aguilty as

the .respon- member of the italian delegate Steongracht Von

ability for the outbreak of war, Privy Council today set her progress may contribute to of former German Foreign Olled but the tribunal exonerated aside a judgment of the East and be of benefit to the Ethiopio, who has stood by State Secretary, and Karl Rit-him from blame in the attacks Supreme Court of Canada | entire world."

men and women were ter, liaison officer between the on Russia, the Low Countries and awarded a Canadian boy Continuing, the Ambassador T President and and his

$8,000 stated,

deeply damages against a Canadian ful

for the great contri. gasoline company.

bution made by the Govern- runt of the United States and its people to the establishment of the States of Israel.

to see

a former Fascist Governor

while slaughtered. -

PRESENCE "SHOCKING"

"That

the

SVET

man

Was

Nuzls,

negotiating the fall of the Czechoslovakia

on Poland

Foreign Office and the Wehr- and nine other nations. macht, to cover

up the RAF murders by sending false diply- matic notes to the British Co- onvernment.

As Goering's deputy,

Court Decision

father

own

"that Israel hoped

the development of the Middle

of

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COMMENCING the dying gratitude and ad-

TO-DAY Isracl Jis miration of

and the Jcwists

people."

Lammers was said "beyond doubt" to have been a criminal participant in the German plans criminals' tist The tribunal found that the European countries.

for aggression against seven In the summer of 1910, the of the London Commis- "Taiss

reports, which Ritter:

boy, sion," he added. "His presence helped to draft and which Steon-

Wiliam Yachuk, then un the delegation is shocking." gracht transmitted, stupid and Koerner must have been aware "Red Indians" with his seven- Paul ked nine, wanted to play at (Mr Aklilou was referring to inept as they were, were in- of the aggressive nature of the year-old brother. To enact

Enrico Cerulli, former tended to deceive both the platis under Governor of Ethiopia).

consideration, the scene they had seen in the Earlier, Dr. Jose Aree, of the

protecting

power (Switzerland) tribunal thought.

tnade torches by movie they because the and Great Britain, and at least real aim of the four-yene plan soaking butrushes in gasoline. Argentine, proposed that Italy give a colour of legally to what was "to prepare Germany for should be given trusteeship over

was beyond the pale of inter-war."

William went with Libya, Somalland and the natural

W

brother to a gasoline station at northern part of Eritrea,

Kirkinnd The other two Nazis found The

Luke, court found Gottlob

where they Ethiopia be given the southern gulity 011 this

an assistant dent Truman for war crimes guilty of having actively helpedved, and told part of Eritrea.

charge were Hans

that Lammers, to plan the murder of General "stick down the street." They and for the prompt recognition

for Jewish displaced their mother's Mr H. T. Andrews, of Souil chief of the Reich Chancellery, Metsal for the killing were supplied with about a pint of Israel's independence.

of the French Army, as Africa, proposed that Britain and Gottlob Berger, one-time a should be Stiven

trusteeship SS Lieutenant

Truman Colonel

Replying. President over Cyrenaica, France trustee chief of the SS Headquarters,

and German general by the French of spirit. William was severely

Maquis.

Important spoke about "this General Meshy was ship over the Fezzau, and

Further step in the strengthen Flain CAMOUFLAGE NOTE Ethiopia

dressed as SS by taen nn outlet to the sen

ordinary soldiers

ing and consolidating of rela while

being Eritrea, but

The Tribunal found that Rit-move 112 է

A claim for damages brought tions between our two coun- one from

camp wherever practicable

moveri

10 was instrumental in another,

on behalf of Willäm the crsl-

by his fries." while Kallan colonies should be fabricating a note to be relayed reported as having been killed damages, went before a Cang Truman added.

oficially father, who also claimed special WILS to the British Government stat"while attempting to escape." under Trusteeship.

returned to Iinly

United Nations

mn

Union

and

have the

A

ter

ing that certain "death zones" had been established for test-

CRUSHED TO

DEATH

П

car was

burned when it caught from a lighted, buïrush.

dion court

FIRST AWARD

Are

the

He went on to thank Presl- his concern persons

These relations. President

had reflected

"sincere Interest of the Government and people of the United States in the deep- Tooted aspirations of your They were awarded $2,000 and $678 respectively, the judge nation.

people to found an independent finding

nation. three-

am firmly convinced of quarters negligent and the com-the

for the speedy necessity pany--the Oliver Blais Com-establishment of a true and! Limited one-quarter équitable peace between Israel

party, negligent.

and its neighbours and for the

The Court of Appeal for On-resolution of all problems out- tario then held that William was standing between them

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Joint responsibility

had not

Lammery was niso found provided success where tried,

ing secret weapons, in which guilty of helping to carry out u as shown in Germany, and he escaping prisoners stood In

sceret order to protect German danger of being shot as spies. doubted whether the Trusice-

civilians who murdered Allied While ship Council would

this notice was de-

airmen. Reuter,. authority and the financial sigued to deter further escapes, means for International the tribunal also interpreted its

actual meaning os trusteeship.

camoudage Government to conceal the murder of other could not support the Italian scoping prisoners. claims to the whole of Libya! Ritter was also implicated in however. A large section of the

drafting

a note 10 Britain, Arab population In Cyrenaica which reported

not guilty of contributory neg accordance with the solemn might

even resist an Italian Royal Air Force officers had Santa Monica, Calif.

recommendations Apr.ligence and awarded him and administration by force been shot while resisting cap 11.-The

of

crushed body of u his father $8,000 and $2,712, But Nations with respect to Pales- ture, though he knew that the negro

tine. The Government of the workman, Robert Lacey, the Supreme Court of Canada South Africa recognised the police teletype reports on which | 63, was

States United Inte todny restored the judgment of the

is recovered

deeply validity of the British wartime this information WOR based from beneath

of trial Judge with

desirous the collapsed

assisting by all damages as pledge to the Senussi tribesmen were false.

means in appropriate

the roof of a reservoir.

assessed by him. that they would not again be The judgment said that, as a

fuiniment of these objectives." placed under, Hallan rule.esult of conversations between Lacey

trapped Was

of-Reuter, Welzsaecker and Sir Neville concrete forms collapsed, pin- the Privy Courici! today set

ning him under 100 tons of fresh his decision aside, and restored Celebrations Ban

Arm.

Reuter.

"It's the grocery boy.

that the 50

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the Anding of the Court of Ap- peal for Ontario, with damages

of the United

Belfast, Apr. 11. The Northern Ireland Government

In Northern Ireland of the de- claration of the Republie of

The cave-in of the reservoirs assessed by them. It dis roof injured 11 other persons missed a cross-petition by the todny banned all celebrations working above the forms,

gasoline company, Doctors who examined the "To put a highly-inflammable body after it was brought out substance into the hands of a Eire at Engler. An order made by firemen maid Lacey had small boy is to subject him to under the Special Powers Acu killed instantly, United temptation and the risk of said demonstrations might lead

jury, and this is no less true the boy has resorted to deceit to disorder.

been Press.

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HK Delegates

(From Our Own Correspondent.}

London, Apr. 11.—Mr Rees Williams, Under-Secretary for

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