GERMAN GENERALS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25848, 19 May 1945, Page 7

GERMAN GENERALS

NO FURTHER INTERVIEWS • INCIDENTS CAUSE CONCERN IN MOSCOW (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, May 17. Official orders have gone out that no more interviews will be allowed with high-hanking German leaders or generals, says the Daily Telegraph’s correspondent at Supreme headquarters. From now on these prisoners will be treated as the Geneva' Convention allows, but no better. There may perhaps be better quarters for those of high rank during interrogation, in order to put them in a susceptible mood for questioning. The Times Moscow correspondent says the Soviet press is united in concern about the reports of recent incidents involving Goering, Guderian and Busch, and finds grounds for misgiving in them and one or two other features of Allied policy towards Germany. The accounts published in Mos-> cow of the reception given to Goering in the name of military etiquette are considered by the Russians to be the last word in cynical indifference, while Busch’s broadcast from Flensburg caused real anger. But the Russians are looking beyond the superficial aspects of the incidents, which unfortunately have provided material for those who-argue that in spite of the war the fundamental sympathy between capitalist countries remains. The Red Star correspondent points out that there are already signs of political mobilisation of the friends of defeated Imperialist Germany. The Moscow paper Red Star publishes a cartoon dealing with the situation at Flensburg, depicting Doenitz and other Germans seated under a sunshade on a daisy-covered hillock bearing the notices, “Don’t Touch,” “Don’t Worry,” "Don’t Tease.” Another hillside notice carries a swastika. and reads, “Northern Military District.” •

The statement by Allied headquarters on the position of Doenitz and the Flensburg Germans is printed in the same issue.

Report that the American Seventh Army received Goering with open arms are indignantly denied at Seventh Army Headquarters, says Reuter’s correspondent at Supreme headquarters.

Goering was treated strictly in accordance with the Geneva Convention, declares the headquarters statement. Goering arrived at the command post, in an ancient four-seater, and was led to the office of the Chief of Staff. Major-general White, who ignored the offered hand. Goering and his adjutant, von Brauschitsch, were removed to an interrogation centre, where treatment depends on information given. General Patch, when he received Goering, remained seated, and left him standing while he answered several questions.