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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 30 July 1945, Page 6

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ART UNION RESULT WELLINGTON, This F. P. Walsh, President o£ the Wellington Trades and Labour Council, to-day handed the Mayor, Mr William Appleton, a cheque lor 1253,500, the lesult of a Dominion-wide art union conducted V»y the Trades and Labour Council for patriotic funds.—-P.A. SOLDIER ACCIDENTALLY KILLED MASTERTON, This Day.—A soldier, Ernest Albert Wilde', Palmer, ton North, a.married man with four children, was accidentally’ killed at Mt. Molds worth yesterday. No detail.- are available. —P A. GERMAN CORPORAL TO HANG ■LONDON, July 29.—A German corporal. Ernest Wa'ldmann. aa- sentenced to death by hanging at Munich. He shot dead an American airman who a, bomber over Regensburg in December, 1944, TRIAL TO COMMENCE SOON LONDON. July 29.—The trials of 48 Bel sen Camp guards, including 15 women, on charges of brutality, are expected to begin in three days, sav ; . the Associated Press of Great Britain, Member." of the Belsen staff, totalling 77, have been imprisoned in cells for the past month. There is no charge oi brutality against 29, who were mostly S.S. men working in Belsenj ortices. They had no direct contact with the inmates. MASS GRAVE FOUND IN SILESIA j LONDON, July 29.—Lublin radiofanj nounccd that the Russian-Polish Com. mission discovered a mass grave con. gaining the bodies of 80.000 war p: oners, mostly Russian, m the ralken-j • burg district of Silesia. Most of prisoners were victims of .starvation . and others were by the Hitleij Youth. l ■ 1 1 '