20 GERMAN SHIPS

Grey River Argus, 29 June 1945, Page 5

20 GERMAN SHIPS

TO BE HANDED OVER BY SPAIN (Rec. 11.10) LONDON, June 28 The British United Press Madrid correspondent’ stated: Spain is nanoing over twenty German ships to the Allies. They include nine merchant ships, two naval tankers, one submarine, one auxiliary training ship,* and one M.T.S. The merchant vessels include two ten thousand ton* ners, one six thousand tonner, and one five thousand tonner. MYSTERIOUS “FRAU” (Rec. 5.5). LONDON, June 28. A hooded woman known as “Frau X” is delivering into Allied hands in Norway leading S'.S. rnen and Gestapo torturers. Her name is known only to highest Allied intelligence officers. Many members of the S.S. and Gestapo took refuge in German military camps disguised as soldiers. Frau X” personally know's several hundred of the most dangerbus of them. She dresses in a long overcoat, wearing a black hood and heavy boots, and she accompanies Allied intelligence officers, who swoop on these camps and pick’ out Nazi thugs. In a raid on a big camp in the south of Oslo she identified Hans Zeidler, commander of the notorious Grinl concentration camp, where twenty thousand Norwegians were held during the war.

Soviet and Turkey FORMER’S DEMANDS NOT ACCEPTABLE. LONDON, June 27. “The Times” Istanbul correspondent says: Russia has apparently put forward four tentative conditions for the new Russian-Turkish treaty, as follows: (1) The retrocession to Russia of the Turkish districts of Kars and Ardahan. (2) The granting to Russia of bases in the Straits, enabling her to defend them in common with Turkey. (3) A revision of the Montreux Convention on the Straits. (4) The acceptance of certain changes in the Balkans in favour of some of the smaller States. The fourth condition, which was evidently added as an afterthought, is the subject of some speculation, because of its vagueness. ' The Turkish reaction to the first, second and fourth demands so far is absolutely negative. The only point which might be open to discussion is the third, subject., of course, to the concurrence of other Montreux signatories.

FRENCH ZONE IN. GERMANY. PARIS, June 27. . The French Government announced the creation of a French Command in Germany, undei' the command of General de Tassigny. FRENCH COMMISSIONER. June 27. Gaston Bruneton, Vichy Commissioner in charge of the recruitment of French labour for Germany, was committed for trial. The Faris radio says Russians arrested him in, Berlin and handed him over to the French. GERMAN ELEPHANTS TAKEN. "LONDON, J'une 27. Marshal Montgomery presented two elephants ‘“captured” in Germany, to the Antwerp zoo. The first reached its destination in a large cage drawn by an army truck. The zoo authorities promptly named.it Monty. The second elephant is being named Ike. 380,000 WAR PRISONERS. TO BE KEPT WORKING IN U.S.A. WASHINGTON, June 27. Able-bodied prisoners of war will be retained in the United States as ■long as the American manpower is not available to replace them in essenial work. Announcing. this the War Department added that 421,291 Italian and German- prisoners were in the United States on June 1, ot whom about 3000 sick, unfit, or wounded, will be returned to Europe in the coming summer. A total of 225,000 had been assigned to work on military and naval installations, and 155,000 assigned to agricultural work. GESTAPO IN PARIS (Rec. 5.5) LONDON, June 28. The French police have discovered an underground organisatiomin Paris. .This organisation was headed by Gestapo men, who had a powerful radio transmitter. The chief of the organisation, Louis Schmiat, was rested in a'Paris flat- . ’ . .’ .