UGHTING-UP TIME WEATHER FORECAST 8.57 pjn. 6 a.m to Midnight, Monday—Moderate TIDE TABLE FOR JULY southwesterly winds; mostly fair: occa­ Date High Water Low Water Sun- Sun- sional heavy local showers. ,„ A__F FJt A.U. p.M. rise wt YESTERDAY'S WEATHER 16 2J1 2ST 8.32 855 623 826 Maximum t„mp«ra_iirf 82 a Minimum temperature-...— 707 17 300 3.50 919 9.54 624 826 g31^11 • — .07 "inche- Sunshine 12 Hours, 24 minutes Hire SUnjal (Hazgtfr aitit (EnlmttHl iatlij VOL. 25—NO. 165 HAMILTON, BERMUDA, MONDAY, JULY 16, 1945 3D PER COPY—AOl- PER ANNUM JUDGMENT IS DELIVERED KING LEOPOLD DECIDES "Big Three" Reach Berlin; Talks NORTHERN JAPAN BOMBARDED FROM AIR AGAINST ABDICATION IN "FAIRY TALE" ACTION BRUSSELS, July U (AP).— Will Begin Today; War In Pacific & SEA BY U.S. THIRD FLEET FOR TWO Premier Achille van Acker said Illegitimate Child Fails To King Leopold had decided against abdicating but, never­ Recover Property In Dispute May Be Shortened From Decisions theless, would not return to Belgium, thus leaving the whole SUCCESSIVE DAYS; B-29'S CONTINUE "royal question" in a state of VERACITY 0FPLAINTIFF IS By ERNEST VACCARO 6 DANIEL uncertainty. QUESTIONED BY DR. HALLETT FRATERNISATION BAN OFF DE LUCE LONDON, July 1* (Reuterfc—-, BERLIN, July 15 (AP).—Bronzed An unconfirmed French press The judgment in the involved IN BRITISH, U.S. ZONES by eight days on the Atlantic Pre­ BOMBING OF HOMELAND'S OIL CENTRES agency report Dram Paris to­ "fairy talef* case was given on Sa­ sident Truman arrived to join Prime night said the Belgian Premier, turday afternoon by the Assistant Minister Churchill and General- M. Achille van Acker, today had Justice, the Hon. Dr. R. C. Hollis Troops May Now Converse issimo Stalin for the Potsdam con­ announced at Brussels that ' Hallett The case involved an ac­ ference which may shorten the war SUPERFORTS ATTACK OIL King Leopold had decided sot tion for the recovery ot a piece of With Adult Germans against Japan and decide the fate No Aerial Or Shore Opposing Fire to abdicate. Mr. van Acker was land and house by an illegitimate of Europe for years to come. PLANT IN HONSHU reported to have added that the child under section 8 (l) of The The President and tlie UJS. Secre- King would delay his return to Legitimacy Act, 1933. By McFEE KERR cretary of State, Mr. James Byrnes, Belgium for "a while yet." flew in from Brussels just after four As Capital Ships, With Enemy Land The judgment was awarded to TWENTY-FIRST ARMY GROUP EarUer today Brussels radio the defendants, Randolph and Flo­ pan. They had spent two hours Aussies Drive To Within HERFORD, Westphalia, July 14 (Ren­ and fifty minutes in Belgium after reported that M. van Acker was rence Swan, who were defended by ter).— TSie fraternization ban has back in Brussels, the Belgian Mr. David Tucker, M.C.P. The disembarking from the cruiser Au­ On 3 Sides, Move Close To Muroran 5 Miles Of Sambodja been lifted in toe British zone in gusta at 11.10 a.m. capital, after a week of confer­ plaintiff was Millicent Thompson, Germany. Field Marshal Sir Bernard ences with King Leopold at his who was represented by Mr. J. E. Tomorrow the President will sit Montgomery announced this in a down with Generalissimo Stalin and KANHSIEN AIRFIELD TAKEN lakeside villa at Saint Wolfgang, Pearman, M.OJ». statement today to his troops which Ry LEIF ERICKSON near Salzburg, Austria. The Judge Informed the court Prime Minister ChurchOl at the was afterwards broadcast to the Ger­ Berlin suburb of Potsdam in Kaiser BACK BY CHINESE FORCES that the case had given him much man people. GUAM, July 16 (Monday) (JP).—It was announced that the trouble and had involved consider­ Wilhelm's former castle. It will United States Fleet continued its series of heavy attacks on north­ able research on his part. He sug­ Great progress has been made in be the President's first meeting ern Japan on Sunday causing widespread damage in both carrier GUAM, Sony 16 (Monday) (JP). — COALITION OF GERMAN gested that the order in which the eliminating the Nazi influence in with Generalissimo Stalin. Japan's dwindling fuel supply was occupied Germany and removing President Truman has completed plane and surface bombardments. evidence had been given in court struck again last night by between POLITICAL PARTIES had been so misplaced that he had prominent Nazis from all responsi­ a draft of the proposals he will make. It was said there was no Japanese defence, either aerial or 50 and 75 Superfortresses who show­ found it most difficult to put it all bility in German life, Field Marshal The President is ready to offer surface. ered high explosives on a big refinery in chronological order. Montgomery said. American cooperation toward Eu­ on the inland sea coast of Honshu rope's rehabilitation so long as he Two of Japan's biggest steel mills at Muroran in southern "It is now deemed desirable and Striking from medium altitude, Russian Approved Pattern COSTS ARE DEFERRED timely to permit troops in Germany receives the assurance in return Hokkaido were left shattered and flaming after yesterday's heavy the bombers hit the Nippon Oil Com- to engage in conversation with adult that the European countries will shellin; and 1.000 planes from the Fleet's carriers bombed Hok- j pany plant at Kudumatsu, once the Has Fwe Point Programme The question of costs was deferred Germans in the street and open work together and adjust the dif­ fourth largest in the home islands by the court. ferences that might result in war. kaido and northern Honshu for a second day. Following is the judgment in places," be declared. The bombers returned in an at­ By DANIEL DE LUCE A senior staff officer at 21st Army It was announced that the two days of United States naval air tempt to finish the job which they what is considered to have been an PACIFIC WAR TO FORE unprecedented civil suit here. Group Headquarters said that his and sea bombardment of Japan cost the enemy 128 vessels and 92 failed to do on June 39 when their BERLIN, July 15 {JP).— The pattern interpretation of the relaxation of The Pacific war is bound to figure planes destroyed or damaged. first raid caused only slight damage. approved by the Soviet Union for The late Sarah Matilda Swan, the ban is that it does not include prominently in discussions but Rus­ Germany's political rebirth was dis­ formerly of Antigua, B.W.I., had American planes covered the sky The refinery is about five miles playing games with the Germans or sian attitude may not become known GUAM, July 16 (Monday) (AP).— southeast of Tokyuama where B.29 played* in the Berlin press with the one illegitimate child, toe plaintiff. walking in arm or drinking with as the ships went into an area sur­ Subsequently she married one Tay-j for some time after the Potsdam Admiral Chester Nimitz's commu­ rounded on three sides by enemy strikes seriously damaged oil refin­ formation of a united front of four them. conference concludes. nique said that over 1,000 tons of eries on May 10. political parties. lor and, after his death and immi-| land. The battleships drew in dar­ grating to these Islands, she mar­ But other people might have a Prime Minister Churchill flew to shells were fired into industrial, ingly close. Nine ot the enemy's fuel centres Contrasting sharply with the Potsdam from Bordeaux whence he transport and harbour areas of Anglo-American policy of stifling ried Stephen Addison Swan. different interpretation. It is un­ have now been attacked. likely that the soldiers who have motored from his vacation retreat Mororan during Sunday morning. FIRED SCORES OF SHELLS all poitical activity in western Ger­ By an Indenture dated August 3, near Hendaye, and Generalissimo "Very large explosions and fires" WASHINGTON, July 15 (JP).— many, the Soviet authorities gave 1922, S. M. Swan purchased in fee broken the fraternization order this week will be severely dealt with. Stalin, accompanied by his Foreign were noted at the Waxushi Iron This ship fired scores of shells. Superforts struck again at thej the widest possible pubicity to the simple the property, the subject Commissar, M. Molotov, headed Works which was devastated with Each weighed 2,700 pounds. The Japanese oil refinery at Kudumatsu coalition of the Communist, Social matter of this action. The senior staff officer added that ship barrage totalled over 810 high for the second time in 16 days. here from Moscow. many buildings demolished or burn­ Democratic, Christian Democratic On April 22, 1933, The Legitimacy although the relaxation officially President Truman is as heavily ed, the communique stated. explosive projectiles divided between The US. War Department said that Union and Liberal Democratic Par­ Act, 1933, came in force, section 8 came into operation at sis pm, if a rthe Nihon steel and Wanishi iron a sizable force participated in the supplied as Mr. Churchill with a An open hearth blast furnace, a ties achieved here. (1) of which is as follows:—"Where, soldier was brought to him at 5.30 military brain trust, and it is pro­ chemical plant and warehouses were works. attack by night (July 16, Japanese pm. he would deal with him lightly. It was terrifying enough even Herr Wilhelm Pieck, long time after toe commencement of this bable that Generalissimo Stalin will heavily hit, and a coal liquefaction time), showing demolition bombs on Moscow exile, headed the Commu­ Act, the mother of an illegitimate In his opinion, the behaviour of use the advice of his Marshals in plant, including gas and storage aboard battleships.