CONTROLLING GERMANY

Evening Star, Issue 25495, 28 May 1945, Page 6

CONTROLLING GERMANY

NO HALF MEASURES BY ALLIES ALL WAR PLANTS TO BE BEHOVED OR DESTROYED LONDON, May 26. All German' war plants which are not removable as 'reparations, or convertible to the production of essential civilian goods, would be destroyed, said l Lieutenant-general Lucias Clay, General Eisenhower's deputy military governor of Germany. He added that the Allied authorities would liquidate the laboratories and research institutions where the " V " weapons were evolved, and would carefully supervise any future German research. German cartels would be prohibited, and exports and imports would be strictly controlled and manufacturing activities geared to the immediate needs of the occupying authorities. Germany would not be permitted to manufacture any aircraft, not even gliders. The Germans would be forced to grow and process their own food, enforce strict rationing, and establish distribution methods ensuring a minimum consumption by Germans. PROMINENT NAZIS AT LARGE. Though most of the prominent Nazi leaders in Germany, except for Ribbentrop, are now accounted for, many members of the. party are still at large, and may cause considerable trouble in underground activity, writes an observer in Europe. More than 30 Nazi and over a dozen regional S.S. commanders remain to be caught. There are also the national organisation staff of the general S.S. and the armed S.S., the Gestapo, and its volunteer spy organisation the S.S. security service, as well as the national and regional organisers of Storm Troopers and the Hitler Youth Movement, whose leaders are still at large. UNDERGROUND ACTIVITY. . Allied intelligence officers are find-' ing scores of secret arms and explosive dumps in the forests and mountains of Bavaria from which the Nazis evidently planned the Werewolf campaign, says Eeuter's correspondent with the Third Army. Recently there has leen a noticeable increase in German underground activity. More and more army wires have been cut, and there are daily reports of ambushes. Attempting to hide his identity under the name of Dr Gibbs, Karl Frederick Griesenberg, the Nazi administrator of all confiscated estates in Poland, has been caught—with von Ribbentrop's visiting card in his pocket—reports Reuter's correspondent with the Fifth Army. He was ambushed 1 yesterday by a'handful of American soldiers. There will bo 25.000 Canadians in the force-participating in the occupation of Germany, according to Luxemburg radio. Hamburg will be the centre of the Canadian occupation zone.