POTSDAM DECISIONS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25301, 7 September 1945, Page 7

POTSDAM DECISIONS

DEPARTURES SEEN ADMINISTRATION IN GERMANY (Herd. R.IO p.m.) LONDON. Sept. G "Something is going very wrong with the carrying out of the Potsdam decisions about administration in Germany," said the Daily Herald's diplomatic correspondent. "Marshal Zhukov's recently appointed German Government for the Russian-occupied zone seems quite contrary to everything agreed on at Potsdam." The correspondent points out that it was implicit in the Potsdam programme that-there should be no zonal German Governments. It was disquieting that the Russians should have taken such a step without consulting the Western Allies, but even more disquieting ns foreshadowing a move toward the economic separation of Eastern and Western Germany.

PLANE AND SHIP LOSSES TOLL TAKEN OF JAPANESE TOKYO, Sept, 5 The Domei news agency says the Japanese Diet was informed that Japan lost 51,109 planes during the war and at present lias 15,886 aircraft. Naval losses in the war period were 684 ships sunk or damaged of a total of 1217 of all categories. When the war ended, Japan had not one battleship that was seaworthy. POSITION IN SIAM (Reed. LI. 10 p.nn) LONDON, Sept. 6 The .Japanese at Bangkok. Siam, have handed over most of the information demanded by the British Commander of the Seventh Indian Division so that he can arrange for the carrying out of the Tokyo surrender terms. Japanese forces in Siam are said to number 114,000. WAR CRIMINAL TRIALS WASHINGTON, Sept. f> Mr Justice Robert H. Jackson, chief American war crimes counsel, said the Nuremberg trials would not beg];i before November 1 because of poor European communications and scattered witnesses.