THE 'CHINA MAIL, MAY 16, 1941.
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EDEN VISIT TO HESS HOSPITAL SANCTUARY
Hush-Hush Attitude Still Adopted
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THE FOREIGN SECRETARY, MR. AN- THONY EDEN, HAS MET AND TALKED WITH RUDOLF HESS, IT WAS REPORTED YESTER- DAY AT THE SECRET HOSPITAL SANCTUARY WHERE HESS IS BEING HELD INCOMMUNI- CADO. THE REPORT IS UNCONFIRMED BUT HOSPITAL ATTACHES WOULD NOT DENY IT.
While the whole world continued to won- der about Hess's fanastic flight and the motives behind it, Hess is confined to bed and is brooding over his own ultimate fate.
According to doctors his ankle injury is painful but not serious. Hess is able to walk
SENATE
ISOLATIONISTS DEFEATED
The U.S. Senate yes- terday defeated on isolationist effort to veto the transfer of shipping from one belligerent to another, despite orguments that such transfers would be "needless provocative acts
war.
of
It will be recalled that the House defeat- ed a similar amend- ment on May 7. Reuter.
Britain's
but so far has not responded to the cajoling War
of his medical staff, who are trying to get him to exercise.
One authority said that,"
Hess is "finicky with his S.M.C.
food and dislikes red meat, and alcohol."
HRC
The prisoner listens to newscasts, largely concerned with himself, and according to hospital attaches, who tremble every me they speak, he reads English newspapers and Agatha Christie
thrillers.
Scotland Yard detectives and members of the Yard's Political Branch are quartered neur the hospital, where members of the staff formerly mingled with news- papermen with the utmost free- dom.
A clammy silence now reigns there, broken
only by furtive whisperings.
It is understood that this "conspiracy of silence" was or dered directly from 10, Down. ing Street, so whatever secrets Hese may have divulged stili are secrets known only to Mr. Churchill, Mr. Eden and Mr. Kirkpatrick.
Meanwhile, German propaganda is still trying to convince world that Hess flew to on a peace mission.
"Truthful Joe"
the Britain
Yesterday Goebbels' department put out a warning that powerful new Axis military smashes within the next few weeks would clearly prove Hess flew to Britain to
start a peace drive as the only
way to avoid the destruction the British Empire."
of
The Germans s'lli allege that documents Hess left behind show- Duke of Hamilton, inspire action by "the anti-Churchill clique" and then fly back to the Reich within two days,
ed he planned to talk with the
Hess felt himself a "Messiah,"
seys Berlin, "and had an absurd idea he could fly back to Germany when he had fulfilled his mission of rapprochement."
PROTESTS
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Losses
Authentic
DUKE OF HAMILTON AUTHORISED TO SEE HESS
THE DUKE OF HAMILTON saw Rudolf Hess within 48 hours of his parachute des- cent in Scotland, it was revealed in London d yesterday.
The Duke was on duty at an R.A.F. aero- drome when, on official instructions, he flew to Glasgow and met Hess in the presence of representatives of both the Intelligence Ser- vice and the Foreign Office.
Thereafter the Duke returned CINEMA VANS ON "CONSTITU- to has duties.
FION HILL."
Hess is stated to be in an isolat- ed room with an officer in atten- dance and guards nearby. His condition is said to be improving rapidly.
Later it will be taken to Trail gar Square where members the public will be able to vir the plane.
Reuter.
MR. CHURCHILL'S NEW SECRETARY
Meanwhile, Hess's 'plane is to be on show in Trafalgar Square as part of Loudon's War Weapons Week during which it is hoped to raise at least half of the total subscribed by all provincial towns.
Martin J. H.
has been TO-NIGHT, THE PLANE appointed Principal Private Secre- WILL BE HOUSED IN ONE OF try to the Prime Minister in sic- LONDON'S MOST HISTORIC cession to Mr. Eric Seal, who has duties
Mr.
been released for special figures of BUILDINGS AND TO-MORROW
MORNING IT WILL HEAD A under the Admiralty, according
British casualties on the
PROCESSION OF NATIONAL | to
British #1
Mr. Jack Liddell, new British Western Front and inSAVINGS CARTS AND MOBILE from London, chairman of the Shanghai Council, delivered his
Provisional Norway, were given by a Rest protest to the local Chinese Government udininistration after a bare month in the Commons yester- spokesman
in office when he wrote to Mayor Chen
Kung-po regarding the day. shooting affray
day.
between S.M.P. Į
Oi
Total troops sent to France Li officers and Wang Ching-wei to June, 1940, were 437,000. police and armed guards on Tues- these 384,000 were brought away and 40,000 were left as prisoners Mr. Liddell asked the Mayor's of war. men to comply with the requests Corresponding figures for Nor- of S.M.P. officers in the Settle-way were 23,800 troops sent, 22.- ment. International News Ser-600 brought away and 95 left as vice.
INTO
prisoners.-Reuter.
PUTTING IDEAS
HEADS OF GERMANS
THE
THE B.B.C. HAVE BEEN broadcasting at fre- quent intervals to Germany about Rudolf Hess, in connection with whom the Prime Minister stated in the Commons: “I shall take the first opportunity of giving authentic news regarding Hess and the Duke of Hamilton but in selection of the opportunity I shall be guided by the public interest.”
In one broadcast yesterday the speaker said: “I want to discuss what Dr. Goebbels would like you to think about the Hess incident.
"Five days after Hess left Augs-į (lost U-boat aces) and their un- burg, Goebbels released his ver-named colleagues? sion. His experts have taken "May not he know more about their time in dealing with the America than some of his col- letters Hess left behind.
have leagues who
never been
In A Few Weeks Nazi propaganda trumpets: "The British Jubilation will be lived when they discover Hess's true intentions. We believe that in a few weeks England will have We agree with German pro- things to occupy, herself other than
pagandists that Hess wants peace "Hess."
abroad? short
"I wonder if you find it as dif- England, out of mad sympathy for ficult as I do to believe ho flew to the British people.
!| for the German people. We agree It was semi-officially claimed in he possesses secret information but Berlin that Hess will not be able is it not possible this concern is to give the British any concrete for the German and pot for the military information.
Dj English people?
Hess was not informed about Reich military plans which are, zle It Not Rossible? available only to a very small
#1.jeava (t:to you a to deal de whether it, was a very sṛne;con- cern for the Gorman people or a very^mad sympathy for "Eng- land that drove him to take this stop.
"Perhaps, after all, we have found out why Goebbels is so anxious to prove his ..comrade mad.
"Hess must know a lot about the Doctor and his other colleagues. It was his job: to do so.
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