OCCUPIED GERMANY

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 September 1945, Page 6

OCCUPIED GERMANY

ALLEGED OUTLAWS LONDON. Sept. 14. “Between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 persons imported as slave-labour are said to be forming an outlaw nation within Germany’s borders, says the ‘Daily Express.’ “Rioting, murders, looting and sexual offences by these displaced persons are providing a .problem for lhe Allied authorities, who are seeking new guidance from Whitehall and Washington. The matter also is being referred to the Council of Foreign Ministers now meeting in London.” CHEMIST CONDEMNED. VIENNA, September 15. . An Austrian People’s Court has sentenced to death Dr. Jorn Lange, .one of the world’s most brilliant professors of chemistry, on charges of shooting two fellow scientists who attempted to prevent his destroying one of the finest electronic microscopes in the world, to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Russians. RED ARMY* LAWLESSNESS. (Rec. 12.40 p.m.) LONDON, September 16. The number and frequency of acts of nocturnal lawlessness perpetrated by irresponsible Red Army elements are subjecting inter-Allied relations in Berlin to a good deal of strain, says the “Daily Telegraph’s” correspondent. Crime figures for Berlin tor the period May to August show that out of 41 unsolved murder cases throughout the city, 25 suspects are members of the Red Army. Simultaneously, Russian political police or German agents appointed by them are secretly abducting Germans dwelling in the British and. American districts and under British and American law protection. GERMAN WEALTH

LONDON, September 16. American military authorities in Germany have frozen all of the German safe deposit boxes in their zone. They are searching the zone. It is one of the greatest treasure hunts in history, says an Associated Press correspondent. The German owners are denied access to the deposit boxes. The Americans at the same time are opening those boxes . belonging to Nazis and also to Nazi sympathisers. The Americans will endeavour to locate looted precious stones, metals, and foreign exchange assets. The correspondent adds: The confiscated valuables may, ultimately, be added to foreign exchange assets already seized. These assets are being considered as a possible sources ol reparations. RUSSIAN YOUTH SENTENCED LONDON, Sept. 16. A British Military Court at Iserlohn sentenced to death an 18-year-old displaced Russian, a former prisoner, Nicolai Kowziga, for killing a British officer, Captain N. Dixon and a German woman after Captain Dixon had gone into the woods to investigate the woman’s complaints that Russians from a nearby displaced camp were causing a disturbanco.