JOHN AMERY REMANDED

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24614, 10 July 1945, Page 5

JOHN AMERY REMANDED

Charge of High Treason (Rec. 12.30 a.ro.) LONDON, July 9. John Amery, aged 33, son of the Secretary of State for India (Mr L. S. Amery), described as of no occupation, was charged with high treason at the Bow Street Magistrate's Court today. The charge, as in the case of William Joyce (“Lord Haw-Haw”), was laid under the Treason Act of 1351—“ that he, being a person owing allegiance to the King, adhered to the King’s enemies elsewhere than in the King’s realm, to wit the German and Italian realms and those parts of Europe occupied or controlled by the King’s enemies contrary to the Treason Act. 1351.” The prosecution applied for a three weeks’ remand because Mr L. A. Byrne, who is prosecuting, would in the interim be engaged on the Joyce case at the Old Bailey. Another reason was that a number of witnesses had to be brought from the Continent. The Magistrate (Mr McKenna) said that the reasons for the application were evidently not those which had been given wide publicity elsewhere. He granted a remand to July 30. In contrast to the Joyce case, there was apparently little interest in Amery. A trickle of people formed an early queue for places in the Court. Amery is bronzed. He was neatly dressed in a blue suit, with his black hair brushed back. He was brought in when the Court opened, although his case was nineteenth on the list. Detective-Inspector E. W. Jones, the only witness, said that Amery had arrived in Britain by air under military escort on July 7. He had told Amery that he would be charged with high treason. He was formally charged and cautioned on the night of July 7, Amery replied that he was not in a position to make a statement and would like to wait until he could take legal advice. Amery, when remanded, bowed to the Magistrate and was taken from the Court. The hearing lasted five minutes. DISPLACED PERSONS IN EUROPE PROGRESS ACHIEVED IN REHABILITATION (8.0. W.) . RUGBY, July 5. “The gigantic task of locating, registering, housing, feeding, and finally repatriating displaced persons is being rapidly cleared away in the Allied zone in Germany, and prospects are that the problem will be substantially reduced within the next two months,” says a statement by the Combined Civil Affairs Committee (Anglo-American Group) issued by the War Office. “All reports indicate a steady improvement in handling displaced persons and Supreme Headquarters has estimated that the entire problem may resolve itself by September 1 into caring for the remainder, non-repatriable and stateless persons. “On June 22, the nationalities of persons repatriated were: French. 1,243,600; Russian, 1,393,902: Belgian, 247,790; Dutch, 195,000; Italians. 136,043; Czecho-, Slovaks, 33,488; Jugoslavs, 2051. Of 2,530.000 displaced persons still not repatriated the largest group by far is comprised of Russians.” General Eisenhower, at a press conference in Washington on June 18. said that the displaced persons ' problem which faced the Allies when they overran Germany was terrible, “It was a terrible job to get an organisation set up to take those people out," he said. “When you talk about persons in that number, their feeding and their housing for a night at wayside stations and so on, you have a real task. The personnel in charge of displaced persons have done it beautifully and the process of getting them out has been working most efficiently.”