BRITISH CASE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 45, 3 December 1945, Page 4

BRITISH CASE

WAR CRIMES TRIAL OPENING EXPECTED TO-MORROW (N.Z. Press Association— Copyright..) (Roc. 12.30.) NUREMBERG, Dec. 2. Sir Hartley Shawcross, chief British prosecutor, has arrive?! from London-to complete preparations, for'- the. British ease in the war crimes trial, which he will open on Tuesday. Reuter’s Nuremberg correspondent says that Mr Sidney Alderman will q conclude the American case to-moi-roW, when he will present /0 documents .showing how Germany took over Czechoslovakia and used it as a springboard for the drive to subjugate Informed quarters say that Sir Hartlev Shawcross and his colleagues think the prosecution’s case so rar is too long and too detailed. They are believed to be planning to present then case in three days, laying before the tribunal a compact mass of evidence to prove, the charge, “crimes against British will introduce about 180 documents, including certified copies of treaties which the accused are charged with breaking. ... , Sir Hartley Shawcross, m his address, which is expected to last most .of Tuesday, will show how Nazis followed aggression in Czechoslovakia with planning the execution of the attack on Poland. He will describe thedevelopment of the war against France, England,. Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, ugoslavia and Greece. He is determined that all his team shall adhere to a strict “time-table. Each will deal with specific phases in order to. avoid a wilderness of “single instances which has already put the prosecution many day's behind schedule: