LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 September 1945, Page 4

LATE MESSAGES

’ ARRESTS AND*DISCOVERIES. LONDON, Sept. 16. British soldiers after raiding a displaced persons camp at Fallingbostel, wherein they found quantities of daggers, knives, razors, pistols, bayonets, and truncheons, arrested 149 people, reports the Hamburg radio. The British occupation authorities arrested Walter Siemens, former director of the north-west German coal cartel, the last of coal mine-own-ers for whom warrants were issued. Allied officers in Berlin found information in a handbook for Himmler’s agents, paying tribute to the British secret service’s baffling efficiency reports the Associated Press correspondent. The handbook expresses deep suspicion of the boy scout movement, as a training centre for spies. It says the secrecy of the British secret service starts with its official designation, which nobody exactly knows. Like the Freemason who does not know his superiors in the next higher grade, the British secret serviceman knows only the man who assigns him tasks. He never betrays what he knows, not even under hypnosis. The most important question is to find out who is the leader of this organisation. Hankey and Vansittart may be among the men holding the reins of control in their hands, but this is uncertain. Kramer and his associates will be accused of causing the deaths of a Britisher, Keith Mayer, and other named persons of Franco-Belgian, Dutch, Polish and Italo-Hungarian nationality, when his trial opens before the British military court in Lundburg to-morrow, says Reuter’s. This is part of the first charge in the indictment against Kramer, Doctor Fritz Klein and 46 other Belsen camp staffites. The charge also alleges ill-treatment of Anglo-Polish Nationals, a Russian woman named, Alexandra Siwodowa and others. The second charge accuses Kramer, Klein, Peter Weingartner, and a group of women of being concerned in the death of the Polish Rachella Silberstein and others at Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

JAPANESE NAVAL VIEW TOKIO, September 16, The Union Jack will be raised over the British Embassy at Tokio at noon on September 17. More than 400 men from British ships in Tokio Bay will participate in the ceremony. This does not mean that the Embassy is reopening. The building will oe used as a residchce for high-ranking officers. Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, a member of the War Council, interviewed, said the Japanese Navy opposed the Pacific war. However, once the decision was made all naval men were duty bound to fight. The Navy had standard long-range plans which included a ’thrust against Pearl Harbour. Yamamoto simply put the plans into operation. There were never any plans for invading Hawaii. “As naval attache at Washington in 1924/2 I knew America’s great production capacity and realised Japan could- not win. I thought Yamamoto knew too.” He added that the Navy always deplored the tri-partite pact and the Army’s unrestrained imperialism in Asia. He described the Supreme War Council as a body of semi-retired leading officers to advise the Emperor when commanded.