European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Page 3 getting their stuff together for cease fire Mission seamstress Joyce Coombs sews . Patches on army fatigues at Canadian forces base Petawawa Ontario wednesday while soldiers prepare to take off for the Middle East As observers of the Iran Iraq cease fire. Members of the Canadian monitoring Force were issued . Patches and new kits for the duty. New allegations link Waldheim with Row deaths London not allegations linking Kurt Wald Heim to the execution of a British army officer in Greece during world War ii were made wednesday by a member of parliament who once worked for Wald Heim and by a British historian who commanded Al lied operations in support of the greek resistance. If True the allegations would provide the first direct link Between Waldheim the austrian president and former United nations Secretary general and the kill ing of an Allied officer. We have now found the smoking gun said Robert Rhodes James conservative . For Cam Bridge who worked in Waldheim s private office when he was United nations Secretary general in the 1970s. In a Telephone interview Rhodes James added that the newest findings were a very significant development in efforts by the British government to investigate Waldheim s possible role in the exe cution of British servicemen in Greece where the austrian was working As an intelligence officer for nazi Germany. In Vienna Reuters reported a senior official i Waldheim s office said of the latest allegations we reject this As devoid of Rhodes James in announcing the latest evidence Ina speech tuesday night in Cambridge said what is so important is that these cases link Waldheim person ally and directly with War crimes rather than general involvement As an intelligence officer with massive events in which he was Only the the evidence will be submitted to the defense ministry which is in the Middle of an inquiry authorized Are expected to be published before 1989. Nury until now the Brit ish government and an International commis Sion of historians established in Austria have failed to find evidence directly linking Wald Heim to War crimes or ordering the deaths of soldiers or civilians. In february a com Mission of historians As signed by the austrian government to look into Waldheim s wartime re Cord reported that he must have been aware of atrocities committed around him and did nothing about them and that he tried to con ceal his military past. But the panel said Thad no evidence that Waldheim himself was guilty of War crimes. The newest evidence against Waldheim was uncovered by Christopher Montagu Woodhouse commander of the Allied Mission to the greek resistance in world War ii. Details of Woodhouse s allegations will appear inthe september Issue of the British Magazine encounter. Woodhouse an authority on Greece has been Diplomat a minister of aviation and a conservative . He has also written books on Greece and is a professor in the department of byzantine and modern Kurt Waldheim greek at King s College University of London. In addition to the author s personal recollections of the military situation in Greece at the time Wood House s article cites an interrogation report from the German archives that was first sent to Washington at the end of the War but then returned to the West Ger Man Federal archives in the 1960s. Woodhouse did not say when he first saw the document. The interrogation by Waldheim suffered massive deletions with a Brush tipped pen Woodhouse said. In the article As Well As Over the Telephone Woodhous Esaid it was unclear Why deletions were made. Woodhouse writes that Waldheim As an intelligence officer signed an interrogation report naming a prisoner capt. . La touche Warren an australian born British army officer As a Leader of a sabotage Trup pen or commando group. Thus Woodhouse writes Waldheim knowingly sealed the Fate of Warren executed on May 14 or May 15, 1944. Less than two years earlier Hitler issued a com Mando order decreeing that All Allied sabotage troops captured in German occupied countries were to be completely at the time of his capture Warren was in charge fan attempt to evacuate a group of escaped prisoners of War mostly russian and polish soldiers from Greece to Italy. The Waldheim commentary said Warren was involved not Only in sabotage but also in an Agenten Netz a network of secret agents helping russian and polish prisoners escape. All this was pure fantasy Woodhouse wrote. We had no such Agenten Netz. For All we knew the prison ers had All escaped entirely on their own players bad Luck traced to poker game Kitty Boston a an outbreak of pneumonia and other illness among 12 poker players was spread by a cat that gave birth near their card table medical researchers reported thursday. The players got q fever a bacterial disease that is sometimes spread by farm animals said or. Joanne m. Langley and colleagues from Dalhousie univer sity in Halifax Nova Scotia who pieced together the Story and published it in thursday s new England journal of Medicine. The eight men and four women met two or three times at week at one of their Homes in Halifax to play poker. Usually seven of them played while three or four others drank Beer and waited for a seat at the table. On feb. 14, 1987, the Homeowner s cat gave birth to three Kittens in the poker room during a game. The cat s owner was the first to become ill on March 5. During the following two weeks the others got sick. All had been present the night the cat had her Kittens. One of the card players died but the rest got bet Ter on their own or after taking antibiotics. Doctors later found that the cat carried Cox Ella Burnetis the microbe that causes q fever. The bacteria is found in High concentrations in the amniotic fluid placentas and fetal membranes of infected Ani Nova Scotia the disease is largely confined to Rural areas. The researchers believe the cat caught the germ from a our hypothesis about How the cat became infected is True they wrote then it is possible that fever May become an Urban disease in Nova
