OCCUPIED GERMANY

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 October 1945, Page 6

OCCUPIED GERMANY

PARLIAMENTARIANS’ VISIT. LONDON, October 3. A message from Hamburg says that Miss Ellen Wilkinson (Minister of Education) to-day begins to study the progress made in Germany s denazified education system. She is ac r companied by eight other Parliamentarians, including two Conservatives and one Liberal. General de Gaulle left Pans to-day on a three days’ visit to Germany. The eviction of Germans from Czechoslovakia is to be held up in the meantime. The Czechs ere to make a census of all Germans they wish to deport, and present it to the United Nations.

GENERAL DE GAULLE’S OFFER (Rec. 12.20 p.m.) ’ LONDON, October 3. General de Gaulle, in a speech to the German civil officials .at Saarbrucken, during his unannounced visit to French occupied territory, said: “We are with you as Europeans and Westerners despite whatever happened between us. We must work together and understand each other.” ANOTHER ARREST (Rec. Noon) LONDON, October 3. Kurt Kausch, former commandant of the Lodz concentration camp, was recognised and arrested by the British military police in Luneburg today at the reburial of exhumed bodies of French prisoners. AUSTRIAN - ]HANGED (Rec. 10.50 a.m.) PRAGUE, Oct. 3. An Austrian, Frank Korst, was hanged three hours after his conviction by the People’s Court on charges of killing several Czech prisoners.