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Evening star., 1945-05-06
Manila Monument toJapFailure

MANILA, P. I-This fire. e-and-b bomb
twisted capital is the Jap's own Asiatic
monument to his co-prosperity sphere.
In death or flight, he left behind him
vast amount of evidence of his total
unfitness to rule or even effectively eX-
plot to his own advantage the country
he infeSts.
Even when the Jap thought he was
here to stay he repaired nothing, re-
stored nothing, added nothing, but like
some rat emerging from sewer he de-
voured everything he did not pollute,
destroy or scurry away with.
Bomb craters dating back to the Jap
invasion were ignored, sewer breaks
went unrepaired, the water system ran
down, public utilities went to pieces
and the Jap stole so much farm prod
uce the natives simply quit cultivating
their fields and rice paddles.
Jap soldiers, and even their officers,
lived in filth, squalor and degradation
around Clark Field, and its satellite
military airports to the north. They
plugged up sewer mains with pollution
when the plumbing system needed re-
pairs, and lived in American barracks
amid heap of rubble of their own
making-empty beer bottles, cast-off
rags and rancid garbage.
The opinion here is that the trans
planted Jap lost sight OF whatever de-
cency he may have had at home and
degraded himself to the level of the
beast.
Sanitation became one of the first
and most urgent problems of the re-
turning Americans. The Americans
have cleared up insect pests on what
ever islands We have visited from
Hawaii to the Philippines, with the ex-
ception of mosquitoes still surviving in
bomb-swept Manila. The job always
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to France, the conquered power that
was trying to work out modus vivendi
with it's conqueror by turning out tanks
in the Renault plant and guns and
shells to shoot at the Russians at
Schneider -Cruesot.
But an occasional German soldier was
being knocked off in France by the Par
tisans and the Maquis, the French
forces of the interior. After Herr Best's
arrival the killing of hostages was re-
vived, a medieval horror that occurred
at times during the Crusades and in the
sieges of moated castles and walled
cities In those days it. was an incident
of war. In France the Nazis used it to
implement police power.
After Herr Best's arrival in France a
German soldier was found garroted In
Nantes. Fifty citizens were arrested ana
it was announced they were going to be
executed. Nothing deferred the Nazls
The so citizens were shot. Another SOL
dier was found-killed in the same man.
ner. This time 100 citizens were TO be
shot, but Vichy obtained their release.
Punished Families
Herr Best decided that the best way to
discourage sabotage was to punish the
families of the alleged saboteurs. He
made an announcement to that eject
and the policy was carried out
Then Herr Best went to Denmark and
the Danes were made to realize Der
Fuehrer was disappointed in them, too.
They are not all from the middle class
and Marks proletariat, these war GRIM
inals. One who escaped by suicide was
monocled Prussian aristocrat, Col. Egon
Won Brodowsky He was the ofhcer who
massacred the women and children OF
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Konrdd Henlein, Nasi Gdu-
letter of the- Sudetenland,
named by the Czech govern-
naent in Grille in its indict-
n1ent.
Wide World Photo
the SA Sturmabteilungen). In the blood
purge of 1884 the SIS killed off the SA
leaders like worker bees killing drones
when the drones' possible usefulness has
ended. After that the SIS was the thing
They revived dueling. 1t was a small
army by the time the war began. 1t
had the best equipment and Himmler
and its other leaders were determined
to show that these fanatical youths
were better in battle than the soldiers
of the Wehrmacht Irregular army. They
were better shock troops, better at TAX
ing objectives under intense fire. They
did things and suffered losses that no
ReichsWehr commander would want to
equal. And there was another side to
them. They had fun.
" al % " SllStlO WdS ldl &c City III
Itself. Four hundred and thirty thou
sand Jews lived there. Some of the
Jews defended themselves with arms.
Some of them fortified themselves for
the ordeal of death by reading the Tai
mud as the shooting was going on. The
SIS boys had fun setting fire to Jewish
dwellings with fame -throwers and keep
ing the Jews within by covering all
exits with their rifles. They shot the
Jews who ran out. 1t was fun.
That was Himmler Remember all
those pictures of the concentration
camps, Belsen, Buchenwald and Da-
chau. that we said were DR.. Kalten-
Drummer? They were Himmler, too.
Himmler was Kaltenbrunner's boss and
the SIS was Hinlmler's creation.
And he wanted to surrender to the
Anglo Americans so he could 60 on
fighting the Russians. Madness?
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Let's come back later to the No. war
criminal. He is Heinrich Himmler. He
must know it. But he had the effrontery
to think that he could call off the fight
with the Anglo-Americans by surrender
ing and still go on fighting the Russians.
Madness?
Himmler's Lieutenants in Crime
Let's look at some of the characters
who serve as Himmler's lieutenants first.
There is Obergruppenfuehrer Ernst
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servicemen were fighting for democracy
and ito lot of the men the word
meant nothing more than the slick
patter of politicians"
Then, he recalled, he came home to
England to find that for the civilians
the war had been five long years of
darkness. that factory workers got up
In the darkness of the morning to go to
work and came out of work to the
darkness of the blackout.
Out of all that came Convoy, a maga-
zine in which the young people in the
factories and their counterparts on the
fighting fronts could talk to each
other" as Capt. Vaughan explained it.
They Have Hope in Common
Now he's in America at the suggestion
Of the owl in Britain to carry his idea
one step beyond bridging the gulf be-
tween soldiers and civilians. He visual
lies Convoy on this side Of the ocean,
American edited, owned and controlled.
He's looking for an editor currently-an
American veteran who shares the idea
that though young people throughout
the world are divided by language and
outlook, they are united in their COM
mon hope for the future"
That's what he learned from his tank
men on the desert, from the miners be-
side whom he worked and now, from the
American servicemen with whom he
likes to swap battle stories like those he
recounts in his war diary. Come to
Dust" soon to be published in book
form In England. A section OF 1t
Evening star., 1945-05-06
BY George Kennedy

The appointed the at
Never before had attorney
crimes
The the waiting
statement justice
An impressive hand he said
"There will be delay"
He will Europe of session.
President him chief for the United
States chief With Hitler and Musoini
gone who thew
Evening star., 1945-05-06
He Is the Liais0n Officer
Between Civilians and GIs
BY Miriam Ottenberp


idea between battles
Son of former
Mugham Capt Vaughan
size quarter to signify pieces
his head-ouvenhs
last fanand of
bvouac drinking
the British partially
turned
there isn't click
of
sitting
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made the pilgrimage to Berchtesgaden,
one of the items of Hitler's ultimatum
was that Seyss-Inquart should be made
Minister Of the Interior. 1t was he who
ordered the Austrian Army to make no
resistance. That is why Hitler's first
conquest was bloodless.
Thirty Thousand Die
There is Gov. Gen. Won Falkenhausen
of Belgium, nephew OF the man WHO
governed it in the last war. In the
first few months the number of Belgians
executed exceeded his .uncle's four-year
reign. This Won Falkenhausen ordered
10000 Jews deported to Poland. 1t Is
estimated 10000 OF them are dead.
And Vidkun Quisling, the man who
gained infamous immortality for his
name. The Nazis gave him power In
Norway for time and while he had
it he deported Jews by the hundred.
And there is Gauleiter Simon, who had
Luxembourg. He said that it was an
honor for young Luxembourg girls to
come back from their tour of forced
work in Germany-pregnant.
And the dragnet may pull up Prof.
Hirth, surely one OF the most odious
specimens of the human race. Prof.
Hirth has only recently come into
prominence. His biological experiments
have come to the attention of the
French Academy of Sciences, some
thing for which any Nazi scientist
would give one of his degrees in peace
time-but not this kind of mention.
War Criminal No. l
With unusual interest and mounting
disgust, the scientists listened Tuesday
to the findings of two of their members
on the contents of bottles in Prof. Hirth's
laboratory at Strasbourg, found after
he had fed back into his native Ger
many. They were human genitals, the
investigators said, evidently taken from
living prisoners in the concentration
camp at Struthof nearby.
But now let's get back to war Grim
inal No. !, Heinrich Himmler. There's
a defendant who would fascinate any
court.
Himmler's character in the Nazi press,
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-AP Wirephoto.


-AP Wirephoto.
to Austria. He was made secretary of.
state for police. His ruthlessness was
unlimited. Those whose loyalty to the
Dolfuss government had blocked the
putsch were purged. There were too
many for the headsmen and the hang
men. They were lined up against walls
and shot down.
But it is not for his treason to his
country and his executions of his coun-
trymen that DR.. Kaltenbrunner will be
tried if he is caught in the dragnet now
drawn across Germany. Kaltenbrun-
ner's ruthlessness gained him the IA
vorable attention of Der Fuehrer and
Heinrich Himmler. He was appointed
successor to the brutal Reinhard Heyd-
rich, killed by an assassin in Prague
in June, 1912. Heydrich had run the
SIS (Schutzstaffeln and its branch, the
Gestapo, for Himmler and Kaltenbrun-
ner took over responsibility for the
operation and the brutalities of both.
The concentration camps and the
cIdINdGiOllo, Illc gas Ci1dAlUClS dllo Vic
crematories within them were under his
control
Looking for Herr Best
Do you remember those pictures 10
days ago of the naked Jewish men in
Buchenwald upon whom malnutrition
had wrought such indignities? DR.. Kali
tenbrunner And the -trenched
graves with the thin legs of the cadavers
visible, one after another as far as the
eye could see? DR. Kaltenbrunner And
the SIS women who clubbed the prisoners
and were more feared than their brother
guards? DR.. Kaltenbrunner.
And there is another of Himmler's
lieutenants for whom those fisher for
men with the dragnet are looking. He
is Obergruppenfuehre Werner Best.
Herr Best is another lawyer. He was
q judge in Hessen and high official
in the Gestapo when Himmler first Or
ganized 1t in the mid .20s.
It was Herr Best who taught migrate
full countries that it is dangerous to
disappoint Der Fuehrer. He was sent
Evening star., 1945-05-06
BY w. H. Shipper, Jr.,
Star War Correspondent.

SLQT w Ut CO7TeSpOUueHL.
was biggest where the Jap had been
most recently.
They Had Burrowed Like Rats
A negative suicidal turn of mind is
further displayed by the sick and
wounded Jap prisoners trickling into
prison hospitals here out of nearby
mountains from which cannonades echo
over this city when the wind is right.
Most of them are bone-thin with mall
nutrition, spotted with open sores, ma
larial, or the victims of dysentery and
various social diseases. They had bur-
rowed like rodents into caves, terrified
of capture lest they. be tortured as they
had tortured others. ~~ =
Some died and a few survived after
biting off their own tongues in an effort
to bleed to death.
We visited clean airy surgical ward
today where these wounded and manned
creatures we're receiving the best medi-
cal attention. Some had been carried
in by guerrillas with arms or legs blown
off or chunks torn out of their bodies
by explosives.
They Expected Torture
These men who had seen their COM
rades dangle naked Filipino women out
of windows under fire, and all manner
of atrocious behaviour, clearly expected
similar treatment when they arrived
here We saw a number of newcomers
today whose eyes were still clouded with
fear and bewilderment in the old walled
city.
Mines still are exploding amid a
tumble Of masonry, sealing off the dead.
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1,500 near Limoges the famed porcelain
city in the valley of the Charente In
Southern France.
Burned Alive
The men of Oradour- sur -Glane were
away, some prisoners of war, some
forced labor The Germans herded the
women into the church and the school,
then burned both buildings with fame
throWers.
Col Brodowsky was not the only one
who enjoyed that sadistic orgy that
day. One report has it that general
ordered the massacre for some failure
of the people of the village to collab-
crate. The identity of the general and
of the men who operated the flame
throwers is being carefully looked into
The psychological warfare division of
Supreme allied Headquarters has COM
pleted 13-volume study of the atroc-
tiles that occurred in the four-year
German occupation of France. 1t is the
product of British and American off,
GERS assisted by the French intelligence
service. 1t will shortly be published
both in the United States and Great
Britain
The Judge Advocate Generals Office
in the Munitions Building has staff
of uniformed lawyers working at the
preparation of cases against NaI per-
sonalities, identified as war criminals.
They are particularly interested in the
several instances of execution of Amer
ican prisoners of war early this year to
prevent their falling into the hands of
advancing Americans.
Volume of Records
The Wehrmacht fondness for paper
work-which is exceeded only by that of
the American Army-should be of great
help in listing the personnel of groups,
SIS and others who committed war
crimes. A huge volume of records has
been piling up since the Americans be-
gan overrunning German divisional
headquarters in the final battle for Ger
many.
Even Hitler's proconsuls, who prided
themselves on their moderation, may
find themselves defending the record of
their administration before the un-
precedented court that will try the war
criminals The Nazi system was so in
humane that no administrator could
function in it without violating the
tenets of civilization.
"Even If There Is No Evidence"
Take Artur Seyss-I -Inquart, the limping
Sudetenlander, who was Hitlers gov
ernor general in the Netherlands. He
was determined to keep a glove on the
mailed fist. But soon the resistance OF
the Dutch had him making such state
ments as action will be taken against
such persons (resistance) even If there
is no evidence Of their participation in
such acts"
Action may be taken against the kind
ly governor general whose subjects failed
to appreciate the goodness of his inten-
tions-and there will be evidence. For
one thing, he ordered the deportation Of
Dutch Jews to Poland to the con-
centration camps of Lublin, Lwow and
wilma. That must have cost lives. He
may be called to account for it.
Seyss-1nquart was Vienna lawyer, q
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General Baron Alexander
Don Falkenhausen, member
Of the German general staff.
-AP Wirephoto
He's an early Nazi. His card is No. T.
And he's the man Albert Strasser, one
OF the strong arms of the early party,
said would not go far In National So
cialism because ne had not enough force
On the night of the blood purge in 1884
Himmler's SIS men killed Strasser and
lot of other tough guys among the early
Nazis
Lidice Was Himmler
You've heard of Lidice? That was
Himmler. Walther Daleuge is known as
the Butcher of Lidice." He will be tried
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Star Stan Photo.
column in the eastern realm. While he
was serving with Schussnigg on Austrla's
Cooperative Council. the murderers OF
Dolfuss were meeting at his house.
When Schussnigg, as Prime Minister,
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kaltenbrunner of Linz. ss-Inquart
was somebody in Vienna. an attorney
with wealthy clients. No one suspected
that he was the head of Hitler's fifth
Evening star., 1945-05-06

Capt. Robin Maughan,
q. When they come home
from the 1Dars they haze the
odd feeling that They're lost
sonnething." Star stan Photo.
appears currently in an American
magazine.
He's found, he said, that when they
come home from the wars they have
the odd feeling that they've lost some-
thing.
II think / know what it is," he
added. ITS comradeship. That's what
I'm trying In some way to carry over
to civilian life and to all young people" y
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-AP Wrephoto.
Oradour sur Glane, a pleasant town of
1,50o near Limoges, the famed porcelain
city in the valley of the Charente In
Southern France.
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SET-ASIDE BUYING
OF MEAT STOPPED
Suspension Expected To
Mean Increase In Sup
ply For Civilians

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 = WH =
Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P.
Anderson today bolstered predic-
tons that meat rationing might end
this fall by announcing indefinite
suspension of Feoera1 set-aside
purchase of beef, veal, and ham.
The suspension. effective tomor-
row, is expected to mean increases
soon in the supply of these meats
for civilians.
Anderson said lard and pork
loi1s and shoulders will continue to
be set aside for government buy
ers for the time being.
His announcement on beef, veal
and ham was the best food news
for civilians since the removal ear
lier in the week of all canned fruits
and vegetables from rationing
Anderson said fats and oils, how
ever, would continue short prob
ably into next year." and that sug
ar would be scarce through 1916.
In addition to the ending of set
asides of Beef, veal, and ham, the
Army is reported to have told An
derson it no longer will need set
asides of beef, veal, and ham, the
He did not, however, confirm this
report. t..
The terminated beef and veal set
Continued on Page Nine; Col. 6,
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UNRRA WILL HELP
EXILED REFUGEES
Council Overrides Dissent
OF Russia, Others In
Adopting Policy

LONDON, Aug. 10 - up Over.
riding the dissent of Russia, Pc
land, Yugoslavia and Czechoslova-
kia, the council of the United Ma
tons Relief and Rehabilitation Ad.
ministration today sanctioned aid
for war refugees who wish to re.
main in exile.
The 28-to-4 vote in an open lie.
nary session was taken after op.
poaents charged the step would in
volve UNRRA in explosive Europe
an politics.
Delegates from Yugoslavia anc
Poland declared that if UNRRA
cares for persons unwilling to be
repatriated, the organization would
be violating a rule against mixing
in the politics of member countries
Russia. Poland, and Yugoslavie
declared they reserved full
rights,'' meaning they kept the
right to consider the measure in
operative so far as they were con
cerned.
Yugoslavia amendments which
would have imposed tight restric.
tons on relief to repatriates
had been defeated earlier in q
Continued on Page Five: Col. 81
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RED SPEARHEADS
REGISTER GAINS
$4,000 Surrender In Two.
Days But Many Others
Continue To Fight

LONDON, Aug. 18.-(AP)
japanese troops laid down
their arms in growing num-
bers in Manchuria today while
Soviet spearheads swept with
in 70 miles of Hsinking, pup
pet capital of Tokyo's stolen
empire, and plowed out gains
of 10 to 81 miles toward Har-
bin.
Moscow's war bulletin, although
ambiguous, indicated that more
than $4,000 enemy troops gave up
the fight during the day for a
two-day surrender total of $4,000.
But thousands of other japanese
troops had not obeyed the "cease
fire" order. The Russian army
newspaper Red Star estimated
there were more than 1000, ZOO
crack japanese soldiers in Man
churia. KeCea, Inner Mongolia
and Southern Sakhalin Island.
Slashing forward on three fronts
Soviet columns narrowed to 255
miles the closing pincers thai
threaten to split Manchuria in two,
outflanked the old capital of Muk-
den and drove within 145 miles
of Hardin. great central Man
churian arsenal city.
May Be In Conference
Meanwhile at the headquarters
of Soviet Far Eastern commander
Marshal Alexander M. Vasilevsky
presumably at Khabarovsk--con.
ferences were believed progress
with a Japanese surrender ennis.
sary who was picked up by a Sow.
let plane today at Hardin.
This envoy, identified in a Khab
arovsky radio broadcast as Gen
eral Hata", was believed making
arrangements for the complete
surrender of Gen. Otozo Yamada'.
Kwantung army in compliance witt
a Soviet ultimatum to lay dow
arms by noon Monday.
Surrenders thus far have beer
the unorganized equalization O.
small japanese groups and units
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
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STORM SWIRLlNC
ACROSS ATLANTIC
Disturbance Reported 500
Miles East OF San Juan,
Puerto Rico

MIAMI, Fla, Aug. 18.-P)- A
tropical storm of nearly hurricane
intensity was reported sweeping
north of the lesser antilles tonight,
swirling across the Atlantic in a
north northwesterly direction.
The storm is getting near hur-
ricane force, attended by winds OF
at least IS miles per hour or
more" said Grady Norton, chief
forecaster of the U. S. Weather Blu
reau in Miami.
'It is circular storm, pretty
well formed"
Norton hesitated to predict wheth.
er the disturbance would strike the
South Atlantic coast of the United
States, declaring: ut will take
about a week for it to get here
| if it does get here-and a Aurri
cane can play a lot of tricks in tina
time"
BY latest reports, sent in by Arm,
and Navy hurricane hunter
planes, the storm was moving ap
proximately 500 miles east of Sal
Juan, Puerto Rico. Shipping in tn
area was advised to take caution.
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ALLIED NATIONALS
AWAIT LIBERATION
100000 Expected To Be
Freed When Jap Sur
render Completed

MANILA, Aug. 18.-(P-1n pris-
oner of war and internnlent camps
scattered from Manchuria to Sin
gapore and the Netherlands Indies
as many as 140,0 900 Allied nationals
may be awaiting liberation after
completion of japanese surrender
negotiations.
A summary of the prisoner of
war and internee situation released
by the American Red Cross here
today said that of 100000 Allied
nationals confined, probably $4,000
died in camps or on torpedoed
ships. Most of these fatalities in
volved prisoners of war. APPROX
mately 10000, mostly civilians,
have been repatriated or liberated.
More than $4,000 prisoners and
internees are Americans; nearly
100, 1000 are British, Australians AMI
Canadians, and the remainder
Dutch.
CA British foreign office COM
mentator quoted the Swiss Charge
D'Affaires as saying $500 Allied
MISUNDERSTANDING $50 Americans
were liberated by the Japanese
in the Shanghai district Aug. IS. He
said the Swiss intermediary at
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
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$5,586,21O,OOO Spend
By. Army In Southeast

ATLANTA, Ca, Aug. 18.-UD-
Maj. Gen. Edward H. Brooks
commanding general of the Fourth
Service Command, announced to
day that the Army has spent S.,
$50. 100000 in the southeast since
1899.
Brooks said that during the past
fiscal year expenses for all pur
poses averaged $3.50, 1000, 1000 pei
month. This covered all expendi
lures by the Army in the raining
of hundreds of thousands of sol
diers in seven southeastern states
Brooks said.
He said that more than 1900, 00(
men were accepted from the area
covered by the Fourth Service
Command since the first man was
indicted under the Selective Serv
ice Act. Of these. Brooks said
some 100000 were assigned te
the Army and more than 242,00l
indicted into the Navy.