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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 11, 1940.
Hitler On Defence In Pep Talk To Munition Workers
FIGHT
EVEN DISCUSSED BY FIGHT
DEFEAT --RHETORICALLY
(By Reuter's Chief Diplomatic Correspondent) HITLER'S SPEECH IN BERLIN YESTER- DAY WAS PITCHED IN A DISTINCTLY MINOR KEY; THE WHOLE TONE OF THE SPEECH WAS DEFENSIVE RATHER THAN AGGRES- SIVE, AS ARE HIS USUAL TIRADES..
There was less of the customary boasting and, strangest feature of all, he referred, al- beit rhetorically, to two dramatic possibilities
of defeat, which he said would mean "the end not only of our socialist system but also of the German people, and of the possibility of an attempt by Britain to gain a footing on the Continent.
Emphasis on the double- effects. of defeat is significant, for it ad- mits a distinction between Na- ziism and the German people which most Nazis would hesitate to confirm.
Hitler's defence of unrestrict- ed bombing of open towne fol- lows the lines of, Goebbels pro- pagando.
WEATHER
UPSETS FLYING
BOMBERS
BAD WEATHER PREVENTED It was always the other side OPERATIONS "IN: 'SOUTHERN. that began it, although there is ALBANIA. ON MONDAY. BUT. "indisputable evidence to the con-R.A.F.
MADE AN trary
|OFFENSIVE RECONNAISSANCE- IN THE VICINITY OF VALONA. Bombs fell south of, the harbour and jetty and others fell among buildings nearby.
"On The Raw”
One revealing passage showed that despite his ignorance of foi-
Aircraft of a Rhodesian squa- eign languages Hitler must be in-dron attacked a defended position formed of opinions regarding him north-east of "expressed abroad..
Kassala, causing considerable damage.
Other aircraft of the same squa- and enemy troops motor transport concentrations at
This was his outburst about: the suggestion that he suffers dron raided from an inferiority complex.. The violence of his reaction Khoraftit, on the Chown Condar suggests that the accusation touch- ed him "on the raw."
Another detail that may or not be significant was the
absence from the meeting of Rudolf Hess, the deputy leader, who has
not
been heard of since the bombing of the Munich beer cellar when he spoke in the name of Fuehrer.-Reuter,
QUIET MOOD ON STOCK EXCHANGE
the
road, south-east of Metemma, troops and considerable damage to causing many casualties to enemy motor transport-Reuter,
U.S. STUDYING EMPIRE SCHEME
Lt.-Commander Wanamaker and Lt.-Commander Taylor, of the United States Air Arm, arrived in Ottawa yesterday on a tour of Canada to study the Empire
air
One air battle during the third London area raid looked like a trapeze act, according to an eye- witness. He said;
"The R.A.F. ́fighters zoomed and dived and the bombers made frantic efforts to keep in formation. They failed, Ono was detached.
GARNARVON CASTLE SEA AGAIN
H.M.S.. Carnarvon Castle, which put into Montevideo for refit- ting after her clash with a German raider, soiled at 8.15 last
evening. madly round
"Jerry, know he was trapped, and he ciroled and round in a bid to dodge a fighter which was marking, him
while the other two flew out of sight on the: talls of two other
Germans.
"Then the fighter pilot, tim. ing his dive magnificently, swooped in for the kill. Rat- tat-tat of bullets, the flare from the tracers, and—whoops-it was all over, with smoke, pours. ing from the bomber
at it dived to the ground."
Down In Flames
B
A woman living on the high- ground above a district in the London aren said: "We .saw. "formation of German machines tearing across the sky like silver arrows darting about. They were being chased
"Then we ran into the scullery and looked through the window. They went over almost over our house, and one of our machines was on top of a. German,
"In an Instant a silver-look: ing 'plane
was diving to, the ground. Its tall suddenly burst into flames."
Six Fight 80`
In one encounter six Spitfires dived out of the sun, on about eighty, Messerschmidt 110's fly- ing three miles high in four cir- cles of twenty..
Twenty Messerschmidts then hurtled-down in-line storn-and: joined in the battle, Two were crippled.,and. were last seen falling with white smoke. pours
ing from them.
One Spitfire. pilot was forced to bale out but he landed safe. ly in Kent.
Air Collision
A terrific fight in which a Spit- fire and a Heinkel collided in planes crashed to the ground, was mid-air, and in which three
eastern rural district.
Germins, who
All repairs had been completed, it stated:
was
Despite rain a large crowd, assembled at the quayside and cheered. Carnarvon Castle on her, depar- ture.--Reuter.
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TURKEY
SPIES
CONFESSED MISSION
After the two spies ex- ecuted in Britain yester- day had been arrested, they confessed and told of instructions they had received.
This fact was disclosed in. a broadcast last night by an officer'. whose business it is to prevent leakage of information to, the enemy.
The officer stated that- Jose Waldberg, the German, might have acted from patriotic mo- tivos, but that the Dutchman; Kari Meier,, acted simply for money.
In addition to 21 wireless transmitter and ja considerable sum in English money, the two men brought iron rations with
hem.-Reuter,
PEIPING
PREPARING RUMOURS
ACCORDING
ΤΟ UNCON- "IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT BE-FIRMED BUT PERSISTENT. TWEEN NOW AND NEXT RUMOURS SPRING THE LARGEST POS-CHINESE
AMONG BOTH SIBLE NUMBER OF AIR RAID CIRCLES
AND JAPANESE IN PEIPING THE SHELTERS BE PROVIDED IN MURDERER. OF THE JAPAN- TOWNS AND TURKEY," STATED. THE OF 29 HAS BEEN ARRESTED ON VILLAGES IN ESE COLONEL ON NOVEMBER FICIAL ANKARA NEWSPAPER A
ULUS" YESTERDAY.
CHINESE RICKSHA
COOLIE'S INFORMATION.
The murderer, it is. rumoured, turned out to be a Japanese who donned Chinese dress for the occasion.
The newspaper publishes de- signs of the Anderson (the small, shelter, with the recommendation back garden, semi-sunken type) that all municipalities study, them Reason for the murder is said and start providing similar struc- to be due to internal quarrels
among the Japanese.--Réuter.
tures.-Reuter.
HITLER SHOULD HAVE BEEN SHOT
Mr. Morrison
seen by people living in a south- UNDER THEIR POWERS the Home Office had not dealt with enemy aliens and other internees im- properly or spitefully, declared Mr. Herbert Morri son, Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security, replying to the debate in the House of Commons yesterday
.
| training plan, with a view to in- The Spitfire ssuadron dashed Although sentiment on the corporating features of it in the in among the London Stock Exchange yester- United States training programme, scattered, and fights broke out day was brighter, business gen- erally ruled quiet.
They said the United States in all directions. Greek and coastal defence scheme, envisages
Suddenly a spitare came nose- For Eastern loans, Chinese,
especially a force of 25,000 fully trained diving to the earth, followed im- moyed higher but pilots of the Naval Air Arm alone mediately by a Junkers in flames Brazilians bccasionally ·
and a Heinkel, which exploded offered. Oils met with a good
were
by 1944.-Reuter.
in-mid-air.
They had seen what happened in Belgium, Hol- land and Norway. Mr. Morrison said, and added enquiry, Anglo-Iranian advanc- Kaffir dividend payers further The R.A.F. pilot, who- baled "We knew we had our own Quislings in this country ing from 31/3 to 35/-. Several appreciated local support, out, landed safely and rushed off ready to play their part.
industrials strengthened while Wall Street was quiet-Reuter.
to rejoin his unit.
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"The lesson of Nazi Germany is that republican politicians at the time respected very fully those. principles which are now urged upon me.
The result was that Hitier was dealt with under a very gentle law. He was put into prison but given rights of ag gera to portain persons and in two months he was outputs "If I had been running the Ger- man Government at that time he would never have got out and would never have survived." ·
Ought To Have Been
Shot:
"He was an enemy of the State Lord ought to have been shot. -- and that would have been a very fing, thing for Germany and the world.
"If I have to take. any action In defence of the steurity of the State, I will take It." The security, of, tha, Stato, in Lima ol war comes, beforo, anything.", Reuter.