THE CHINA-MAIL, OCTOBER 27, 1989
DEFENCE MEASURES
IN NORTH
London, To-day,
Norway and Sweden have decided to spend £5,500,000 for defence, chiefly for their air forces.
The Norwegian Minister for De- fence announces that £3,250,000 will be spent on supplies for the army, navy and air force, while on Wed- nesday the Swedish Parliament pass- ed an appropriation of £2,250,000 for 120 military aeroplanes. Reuter.
HUGE GERMAN CONCENTRATION
Paris, To-day.
Big concentration of German troops and planes and incessant movements of material are taking place along the German North Sea coast from Emden to the mouth of the Ems and past Bremen as far as the mouth of the Elbe, as well as in Switzerland, according to an Amsterdam telegram.
HITLER IS INSANE,
Reuter.
SNOW FALLING
TANGANYIKA PROFESSOR SAYS IN SOUTHERN AREA
ASKS END OF MANDATE
London, To-day.
The British Association in Tangan- yiką cabled the Colonial Office yes- terday, urging the abolition of the Tanganyika mandate.
Members who volunteer for war service want to be assured they will be fighting for their own country and not merely for a country under man- date. Reuter.
ANDRE MAUROIS WITH BRITISH ARMY
London, To-day.
M. Andre Maurois, the well-known author and writer, is.one of the army of French war correspondents who have now arrived at British Army Headquarters in France.-Reuter.
GERMANY
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Hitler is suffering from an in- curable mental disease, according Professor Henry Steinmetz, the prominent American psycho- logist.
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The professor says that Hitler is under constant observation by an alienist, reports the "Dally Mirror" New York correspondent. Discussing Hitler's allment at psychologists' conference at Palo Alto, California, Professor Steinmetz quoted details of Hit- ler's disorder given him by an American research physician who had recently returned from Germany.
"Hitler's affilation is paranoid maniac depression. It is an in- curable mental disease which causes Ita victims to have alter- nate fits of depression and elation, complicated by delusions that they are being persecuted, said. the professor.
ISOLATED
IN THE STRUGGLE
London, To-day.
OF MAGINOT LINE
Paris, To-day.
SNOW IS NOW FALLING behind southern sections of the Maginot Line and bitterly cold weather and heavy rain are preventing and major action on the Western Front.
Another unsuccessful German attempt was made on Wednesday to drive the French from the hill- tops overlooking the Varndt Forest.
A German raid east of the Moselle was repulsed without any of the Germans reaching the French lines.
ARTILLERY ACTION
It is now estimated that the Ger- mans lost between 2,000 and 3,000 The following communique has been men during attacks on Monday (last issued: "There have been encounters week). The French had already between contact units, and reciprocal withdrawn the bulk of their troops artillery actions at various points and the German losses were due to the front-Reuter.
the fire of the French artillery cover-
ing the withdrawal of the outposts.
The Nazi Government is appar- ently hesitating.
LONG CONFERENCE
BANK RATE LOWERED
London, To-day.
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On Wednesday night and yesterday Hitler had long conferences with the leaders of the army and air force. The Bank of England has lowered Marshal Goering and later they were Yesterday morning, he also saw Field- the bank rate to two per cent., bring- to the pre-war level.---- Joined by General Brauchitsch, head Chief of Staff.
of the army, and General Keitel,
This may be the prelude to another German offensive (German troops are still reported to be moving up), or it may be an indication of Hitler's
Reuter.
FURTHER EXAMINATION of neutral opinion on Ribbentrop's Danzig speech confirms the early impression that it has done nothing to modify the view abroad, that Germany is deservedly ́al- most isolated in the present struggle. Considered opinions now expressed by responsible extreme perplexity.
English newspapers agree that his special plead- ing and invective were addressed to the German people who, says the "Daily Telegraph, have been screened by Dr. Goebbels' propaganda de- partment from contact with the truth and have been disciplined to limitless credulity.
Almost the only true statement which he made in the course of it; was that the British people would
"But there are two damning facts] which cannot be concealed from the outer world, however they are recon- cilable to the German conscience-at, heart like to live in friendship the rape of Czechoslovakia in flat de- flance of Hitler's promise, and the spoliation of Poland.
Those were hardly the achievements of a government which had, as Rib- bentrop claims, done its best to avoid
war.
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Nor do they inspire confidence in the renewed - protestations that German frontiers are now definitive, that stable conditions have now been created in Europe and that the conso- lidation of the Reich has been cluded."
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BUNGLER'S APOLOGIA "The Times," which describes speech as a "bungler's apologia," re- calls the failure of Ribbentrop's mis- sion as Ambassador in London, and says this arst failure has been fol- lowed "by a series of blunders which have landed Germany in the worst diplomatic position in which she has ever found herself-far worse than that in which, her allies round her, she stood at the beginning of the last
war.
with the German people, and it was perhaps the consciousness of his own heart that he and the Fuehrer had between them made this impossible that drove him to make the fantastic charges of a man who feels him cornered and lashes out right and left.
ROSENBERG THEORISTS There is not the slightest doubt that Ribbentrop has antagonized large sections of opinion in his own country-honest Nazis and others who genuinely consider that Communism is an evil; Rosenberg theorists who believe in the doctrine of expansion northeastwards; admirals who do not care to see the Baltic become a Rús- sian lake, and, industrialists looked to southeastern Europe willing partners in German trade. `-
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-All these in greater or lesser degree have seen their. hopes and their alms miscarried..
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The author of their disillusionment is now trying, by bluster and false charges, to absolve himself from the consequences of his own ineptitude and to put upon the generals the re- ofsponsibility for getting the country. out of the difficult position into which he has thrust. it..
The Danzig speech suggests that he has in fact abandoned the uncongen- ial role of diplomatist for that blustering demagogue.
HYSTERIA
To those who listened to dominant note of his harangue was: hysteria, and hysterlát
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on which to conduct what the themselves" describe
nerves.
He ended his lamentable, speech", with ''a' dall to that, war: against Britain Which Itself" fälslfies his "and" déclares the nkruptcy of, his own policy,· ***
Wiraidos,
NORWAY'S
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ing it back Reuter.
***It will be recalled that the bank rate was raised to four per cent..just before the outbreak of war. It was later reduced to three per cent. The further reduction is probably the pre- liminary to the early issue of a new War Loan.
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