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CHINA MAIL
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No. 30,924
MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1940
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HIMMLER ORDERED
SHOOTING OF UNITY MITFORD
EXPLOSION IN
STOCKHOLM
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Berne, To-day,
The official German News Agency (D.N.B.) reports that a time bomb has exploded on the premises of Stockholm's Com- munist newspaper "Nydag." Ma- terial damage only was caused. -Havas.
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Paris, To-day. MYSTERY
"Himmler ordered his
minions to shoot Unity Mit- MESSAGE
FINNISH ATHLETE KILLED IN ACTION
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL)
Helsinki, To-day, Another world-famous Finnish ford!" athlete, Birker Vassenlus, has been killed in action north of Lake Ladoga. Vasenius won Finland's speed-skat- ing championship in 1935 and world title in 1939.-Havas.
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INTIMIDATION OF S.M.C. BEHIND ATTACK ON PHILLIPS
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)
Shanghai, To-day.
This is the sensational headline of a story in the "Daily Mail.”
"She was shot on Septem- ber 3, the day after the out- break of war, from some dis- tance in Munich Park, where she used to walk.
"Two shots were fired by Storm- trooper Scharenbach, who was acting on Himmler's orders.'
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The "Daily Mall" adds that Himmler suspected Miss Mitford of spying and of having a dangerous, sentimental influence on Hitler. Hitler told Himm- ler he was completely indifferent to these suspicions.
FOUND
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Stockholm, To-day.
ious sources
Propaganda from myster- was revealed yesterday by the Stockholm paper "Afton Bladet," which printed a photostatic copy of a pamphlet found by advan- cing Finnish troops in re- cently abandoned Soviet trenches.
Hitler's personal relations with Unity reads:-
Mitford have always been strictly
IN AN INVESTIGATION into the terrorist attack on Mr. Godfrey Phillips, Secretary-General to the S.M.C., your correspondent personally ascer-paganda, chiefly among the British tained that three gunmen held responsible for nobility. With declaration of war, her Stalin's ideals and wishes. the shooting are being held in custody by the presence in Germany was considered Japanese Gendarmerie at 94, Jessfeld Road. Although I definitely ascertained this on Saturday
The pamphlet, printed in Rusalan,
"Comrades, turn your arms against governed by the needs of Nazi pro- your own officers and Commissars who are pursuing the Finnish war against
not only useless but dangerous.
The "Daily Mall" concludes:-
"She was allowed to
she keeps absolute allence regarding
return to
"Kill the warmongers! Stop the war and you will obey the true orders · of Stalin, the father of our proletarian fatherland."-Hayas.
her pro-Hitlerlan activities."
afternoon, the Japanese authorities were last Great Britain only on condition night still denying the arrests on being ques-Nazi affairs and was threatened with of tioned by newspaper representatives and turned reprisals consisting of the disclosure Havas. down S.M.C. requests that the men be turned over to them for questioning.
It is still a miracle how Mr. Phillips escaped death. One of the nine bullets fired at him traversed the left door window, entering the seat uphols- terly only a fraction of an inch from him.
TYPHOID IN QUAKE ZONE
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Istanbul, To-day. Typhold fover has broken out among the victims of the recent earth- quakes and floods.
He, however, calmly walked into a Settlement Police station not far from the scene, and said:-
"They've taken a pot-shot at me! I guess you had better look at the car.”
Subsequently, he left for his office, where he took up his usual duties. He received thousands of phone-calls and letters con- gratulating him on his escape.
REASONS FOR SHOOTING The S.M. Police immediately sup-
Measures for preventing the epide- mic from spreading are now beingplied him with a strong bodyguard. taken. Havas.
VISCOUNT KANO ON WAY EAST (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"} London, To-day. Viscount Akira Kano, London mana- ger of the Yokohama Specie Bank, and vice-chairman of the Board of the Bank of International Settlements, following his recent speeches éxpress- ing optimism regarding the prospects of an early peace in China, Has left for Japan. He is travelling by air through Hong Kong-Havas.
consisting of foreign detectives. Mr. Phillips is, at the moment, the only foreigner in Shanghai guarded in this manner; Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, British Ambassador, is now in Chung- king.
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Reasons for the shootingʼare self- evident. Although the greatest secrecy surrounds the police In- vestigations, it la held as cortáln that the assassination was planned
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