European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse The room mid from Page til Ling about Japan As the wandering collecting information on what the Imperial a Power unto itself and Independent of government control actually doing or planning to and de Vou Keltsch would make his rounds As a touring Man Churia and swapping stories with other correspondents at the club he was an Extension of Serge and often probed More deeply into subject that the ring Leader but basically it Wai All Sorge the journalist ferreting out facts and drinking with the younger staff he could match Veteran Sake Drinker in for leave them drunk on Tatami mat floors and go Home and write a report on what the officer in their cups had Sorge also had a taste for and he ran from Geisha to Brothel to friends Vlf with the greatest of i head always thrust Forth Ai if dating the girl to argue with Sorge the press attache advising Ott on Poull Cal on on Tapanen intention Rumor Hai it that he even bad an affair with Otti Sorge the agent working 20hour he would write his reports in the Early then have a party Ai a cover for inviting blueprint maker correspondent de Koukell Tab and Cabinet Secretary Oakl to my cuu Aen would transmit the menage while the others sometimes from Serges House but More often from hotels toward the end from a Small yacht in nearby Sagall Sorges successes were but two stand out the first Wai predicting the place and strength of the German inv Avoni of the soviet Union in he flashed the warning to Moscow not once but several limes Ai new detail of hitlers planned drive to the East were revealed in the German it Wai undoubtedly one of the major errors i Premier Josef stains career that he failed to heed the warning of nil trustworthy far East Sorge Wai Only two Dayi off in Hli Day timetable and on the Button Ai to place and the other major Triumph was of ails report of the meeting of july during which the Imperial meet ing i the pretence of emperor decided on the thrust to the South and toward the United Britain and Holland possessions and ignoring the vulnerable soviet siberian this information permitted Stalin to strip the defences i the far East and to throw the entire siberian army into the Battles for Stalingrad and German War histories mention time and again the Shock their troops received when mongolian troops suddenly appeared outside Moscow and fresh from the Long trip in that single the siberian army for action Sorge probably d d More to influence the course of world War h than any other Tingle Sergei downfall As it must to most Ager the game circumstances of the downfall Are not dear even despite the japanese governments recently published history of the Sorge but Sorge knew things were closing to on he had word that the Jap anese thought police bad a new radio finder from Germany and were Hunting a Clandestine radio he knew that be Wai being More closely watched than but he went seeking one More Host report agree that a minor figure in my yogis group of informers was trapped by japanese police and made to he was forced to reveal his Fel Low and the Trail led to and then to a great Deal of careful police work went into the How with the police closing i on Ozaki from one Side and the Kem Petal on Sorge from the Sorge and the ring were arrested ambassador Ott was and re faced military at b laches numbly went Over past Conversa 1 tons they had had with a re i Check of police records in Germany 1 quickly uncovered Sorges communist i and it was All Page 14 German ambassador Ott was uni Hing help to the spy in after a protracted japanese court convicted Sorge and Oakl and sentenced them to death by Sorge filed a lengthy Appeal which Wai carefully he also wrote a de tailed history of Hla and Oakl penned a series of poetic letters to his wife when collected in Book became a brat Teller in postwar on Sorge and Oakl were hanged at Sulamo later to House japanese War the Sorge Story probably ends but the third Secretary to the German embassy in prewar paniotto in his Book Der fall want quite he pointed out several curiously significant items the Long in the exec Uon of Sorge and Oakl the political climate in Japan was hardly favourable to foreign and while the japanese have a Nice sense of orderly judicial would they have waited that Long did Sorge get a new new false Teeth and other medical treatment Ai records How redid just a few Days prior to Hli execution were there no foreign witnesses Ai Wai customary in japanese executions of foreigners what happened to the records of the of the investigations and interrogation they disappeared from the notional diet Library shortly before Mai Gen Charles Gen Doug Las Macarthur chief of sent i Itaf to get in was there governmental Swap of of some Jap anese spy or agent Meissner Book relates the strange tale of a japanese one of Sorges last who was thought to have informed on Sorge and helped police trap she died in in b us Winou w Shanghai in 1947 in mysterious Circum when he decided to play ame just a Little bit the she was dancing in a Shanghai night club at the during her act the customarily danced about and Between the As the spotlight flickered Over the faces at the tables it paused on a Lone Man sitting with a bottle of Cham pagne in front of the girl saw the mans face and then dashed off the the Man threw Money on the and scurried minute later the girl was shot and killed Ai the left via the stage Entrance to the in the club at the time was an Ameri can news correspondent who had been in prewar he thought the Man Wai a army also a Tokyo swore that he saw Sorge in a Shanghai bar about the same but with the soviets turning the Glare of publicity on the Case it appears certain that Sorge died in u they had been Able to save their there would be Little reason to conceal the fact now that his useful career would certainly be Over he would be at any theres Little doubt that in Tokyo the old hands still talk about do you remember the time Sorge came in an policy in spotlight broadcasts in curious a 7z the during the preceding spotlight program Wai broadcast on 13 i enjoy listening to and missed it on that name withheld by request editors note an re piles the program spotlight is prepared by an news from network programs aired two weeks previously in the an Effort is made to select a program that is both interest ing and and care mail be exercised to assure that the i selected does program prepared for on u Wai panel the airing on of state remarks of the it Naploi la on the morning of the 13th there was an attempted coup de Tat in and As of air time that evening it was a Lull unclear whether or not the Nguyen Khanh regime had been since most of rusks remarks were predicated on the it gallon that Carea in sub does not Deal existed 14 Dayi previous to the Sta topic have it to de changes concurrent travel i am stationed at an isolated air Force site in i have been notified of my Vonrec Tulve Oversea tour to i have also been granted concurrent what i want to know and cant find a definite answer tour do i Nave to travel directly to Japan from Here i have con current travel approved and want a delay in route to the state to pick up my family and then proceed to Travis Lete the retired personnel is it Poisl ble for retired military personnel living in France to have their privately owned vehicle registered with the military for the Pur pose of being Able to Purchase gasoline coupons recently in the army it Wai indicated that the 1 personnel living in what effect will this ban have on the availability of Esso gasoline Coupon to the retired personnel will the gasoline Coupon be available from the american embassy name withheld by request editors note u8ar fab for shipment to name withheld by request editors note Safe re replies Yea Are assigned u Japan against a specific line a tuber for a specific Nail or Molech you malt arrive in Nova wind Civ to Meel the prices eur replies it u lot possible for retired Mill the transportation office at tary personnel living in France origin of travel Mast Lecure a to have their privately owned doable port arrangement vehicles registered with the must be they in Garif Ujj to Purchase Emo gasoline coupons from the american embassy or any other the reason for thai restriction u that in the terms of the status of forces for must made at Germany Aad Travis the transportation office completes All travel reservations and All arrangements for shipment of household goods and travel of dependents and related items la connection with this shipment must be made from the authority u Para of manual agreement by which the m 1111 a r y Are authorized the Purchase of duty tree retired personnel Are not considered to be of the a reminder to b bag correspondents All letters to b bag must contain full name and address of the and must be All correspondence is the writers name will be deleted upon the editors re serve the right to edit and condense Goren on Bridge 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