ATTACKS BY GERMANS

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24742, 6 December 1945, Page 5

ATTACKS BY GERMANS

WARNING TO BRITISH TROOPS

CONDITIONS? IN WINTER (M.Z. Press Association—Copyright) , LONDON, Dec. 4. "Troops in the British zone in Ger- ; many have been officially warned to be on guard against attacks by Germans," ; reports Reuter's correspondent at the Rhine headquarters. 'Twelve thousand servicewgmen must be accompanied in their move* ments by an armed escort besides a driver, and they must be quartered in guarded premises. • •"The warning, which follows the murder of two soldiers and the wounding of a third, said that conditions for Germans in the winter were likely to be aggravated by food and fuel snortages. It was improbable that billets and headquarters would be in danger of attack by a large number, but attempts might be made to set fire to' them or throw a bomb through the windows.

"The greatest danger would he at-, tacks against isolated personnel, particularly after dark. "The statement added that a defence scheme had been prepared." -

CENTRALISATION IN GERMANY

FRENCH OPPOSITION

PROPOSALS FOR RUHR AND RHINELAND

LONDON, Dec. 4. -General de Gaulle's Cabinet has approved a policy of opposition to a centralised Germany, says the Paris correspondent of the Associated Press. .

The Foreign Minister (M. Bidault) stated France's position as follows; "There will be no French consent to centralisation of some aspects of German life until Germany's western boundaries are determined," , The correspondent, says "that boundary determination .-means to the French a decision, on France's proposal for internationalising the Ruhr and detaching the Rhineland from Germany proper. A French delegation is at Pre* 1 sent discussing the proposal with Russian officials in Moscow.

NEW CONTROL LAWS FOR GERMANY'

FARBEN PLANTS VESTED' ' IN COUNCIL, . LONDON. December 4. Two new laws—one to knock out a large section of war poten- , tialby smashing for ever,the I. Q. Farben trust, and the.second to: knockthe martial spirit out of Germans, by outlawing military training under eny; guise—have been published by the-Al- - lied Control Council. The Allies have already seized the majority of the 1.. G. Farben properties in Germany, but the latest law formally vests in the Control Council the legal title to all th: 300 Farben plants. The Control Council stated: "Thii law will be enacted to ensure that Germany will never again threaten' 'her neighbours or the world's peace." ,'* The ; commanders .of the four occu» patioii zones will serve as the Farben control group.

■2 FREEDOM TO BE MAD"

CZECH MINISTER Otf Sfete ft

LONDON; December' 4.': England, in addition .to the' Four; Freedoms of the Atlantic Charter, -had;' a fifth freedom—freedom "-tp Mr Jan^_Masarykvr*the' Czech Muus^er/agree^:wll}i'' v by a journalist aj a when- he ,vjas; discussing-the purchase:' of Hitler's bust and, the' existence in. England of a sect glorifying "My people at home were horrified : r. about this, and. so "probably", will "the Russians," said Mr Masaryk.^3. unfathomable England during;my long, sojourn here, so I am not-worried' about, the matter,, but I shall have a" hell of a job v explaining it to. the Czechs. V ■■- .- • / ;v ! :< v ' ;,. : : v..

Mr Masaryk revealed that part of' Hitler's personal art collection was receritly found hidden w a monastery U* South Bohemia. It consisted of paintings and sculptures 'of "stinking media*i crity" and many indecent'nUdes.-:-vV<-"The Czechs mean to bermastersbi their own land, said '. Mr Masaryk; "When you hear that we are being" interfered with, don't believe Jt," v■■ r: He emphasised that the Czechs were finished with the .Germans. "We 'iivßil under the same umbrella, witbVxtheni and got very wet," he said; ; ■

BRITISH SECT MURING CULT OP HITLER

MINISTER HAS "NO POWER?)

TO INTERFERE »

** LONDON, December 4. The activities of the Christian Re-; form' League which, "under the guise of. religion seeks tomake a cult- of Hitler and the. forces of evil which tha United Nations have recently overcome," would be carefully said the Home Secretary (Mr. Chuter Ede) in the House of Commons, in reply to a question. "I entirely share the feelings of revulsion against this movement,", he said. "I have no power to interfere merely because it is unpopular or ridiculous, while its advocates commit no breach of the law." , The league, which is reported to regard Hitler as a i divine instrument to break the power of Mammon, has its headquarters at Kingdom House, Surrey, where a number of members, some of whom were formerly detained under the defence regulations, live in seclusion.

JEWS MIGRATING IN GERMANY

RUSSIAN TO AMERICAN ZONE

PARIS, Dec. 4. . In spite of the poor living conditions, several thousand Jews are crossing monthly from the Russian zone into the American zone of Germany," a-aid Mr Joseph Schwartz, an American Jewish relief administrator in Parish 'The majority of the 60,000 or 70,000 Jews in German relief camps now concentrated in the American zone will constitute a major problem unless a home is found for them. Migration to Palestine is virtually at a standstill."

British Nationalisation Plans.—The non-party Committee of Inquiry appointed by the British Coalition Government in June, 1944, has submitted a report recommending the nationalisation of the British gas industry, a step which the Labour Government, as already announced, has decided on. The committee's report recommends that the industry should be controlled in regions by boards appointed by the Minister of Fuel.—London, December 4.

Belsen Gnard Executed.—Erich Toddel, aged 31, a former dairyman and Belsen camp guard, was executed yesterday for killing a Polish girl. A military court sentenced Toddel to death before the Belsen trial was held, but his execution was postponed. At the Belsen trial he was found guilty of kicking prisoners to death and killing a sick man with a length of iron piping, and was sentenced to forced labour for life.—London, December 4,