Churchill Declines To
Be Drawn On Subject Of Hess
NAUSEATING RHAPSODIES IN PRESS
MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL REFUSED TO BE DRAWN ON THE SUBJECT OF RUDOLF HESS WHEN QUESTIONERS BOMBARDED HIM IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS YESTER- DAY AFTERNOON.
Major Vyvyan Adams asked whether it had been established whether Hess's visit was planned with the German Government's connivance.
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Major Adams then asked Government have actively in mind the pouribilty that whole stunt may be mon or garden plant; also whe ther they will disgourage the press
from renewing their "nauseating rhapsodies on this blood stained crook." (Laughter and cheer3).
The Prune Minister: "1 certain- ly do not feel ought to retract in any way from the vehemence
Major Adams' statement. (Laughter).
of
Delicate Appetite
Komrenorating the eighth antiversary of Hess becom- ng Deputy Fuehrer, and said: Some time ago just before the outbreak of this war. Rudolf Hess was once described as "the con- seience of the party"
"If we ask why the Fachrer's Deputy was given this honourable mume the reason is clear.
Reason Is Clear
There is no single aspect of our public life with which the Deputy Fuehrer does not have to concern himself, His sphere
FRENCH PILOTS MEANING OF
OF THE DEFECTION
IN SYRIA DESERT
The Cairo corres- pondent of the In- dependent French Agency says a certain number of French 'planes have been flown over the Syrian frontier by their pilots to join General de Gaulle. --Reuter.
ULSTER TO
CONSCRIPT FOR WAR
was omitted the Con-
OF HERR HESS
HOWEVER MAGNIFICENT his military machine, Hitler can hold his success only if he satisfies his own people, says the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer.”
Whatever the primary cause of Hess's disaffection, one element very near the cornerstone of the Nazi edifice has crumbled. If that breach can widen, the whole unsound structure may collapse.
This would benefit the German people, who entnot hope for peace or for a healthy national develop- ment while the frenzied leader- ship, with each victory, looks for new worlds to conquer
Henri Bernstein, in a letter to the "New York Times," says that when Marshal Petain orders the French people to follow him along the path of honour, he is follow
OUR
him down his road to treason.
"WHAT HE INTENDS
FALLUJAH CAPTURE IMPORTANT
The
great
strategic COUNTRY TO DO IS PLACE IT. value of the Iraqi town of ENCE ON ITS MORTAL ENEMY, British from the rebels, is SELF IN COMPLETE DEPEND- Fallujah, captured by the GERMANY.
stressed in Cairo military circles.
"England kept her promise to
Conscription is to be actually suggesting they of activity is so wide and many-imposed in Northern sided that
it simply cannot be Ireland and Government's described in a few words.
And it lies in the nature of the decision to do so will be Deputy Fuehrer's duties that the announced shortly by the public hears little of his influence. Very few people know that many Premier, Mr. Andrews. Mr. Robert Tylor (Labour) | Government ineasures especially
US. She has done more than that. Northern Ireland complained of press descriptions those concerned with war produc-from the Statute of
"In the hour of defeat, in of this man's very delicate option and with the party
the hour when We left her which scription Act imposed in Britain petite and the means taken To
alone in the Reid of battle, she are particularly applauded by the in 1939, on account of
Fallujah Bridge is the only Satisfy it
revealed herself to public because
be a most crossing of the Euphrates between they take Strong account of the real feelingment by Mr. de Valera, the Fire such representation made to Govern-
generous friend. No word of re- Habbaniyahı and Baghdud. of the people, are to be attributed Premier, who stated that if im-
proach fell from the lips of Had this narrow. one-way her statesmen."-Reuter. to the personal initiative of the posed it would lend
traffle bridge been destroyed- Fuehrer's Deputy." British We-opposition from
to strong
and it is thought that the rebels the nationalist
CONSULATE CLOSED had mined it-labbaniyah would Bority in Northern Ireland.
The
thave been cut off fron British position has changed The offices of the Consulat de land-borne since then with the bombing of France, will be closed to the gen- since
reinforcements, and Belfast, in which homes
the Euphrates is in full of all eral public, to-morrow. 22nd May, loud, would have caused consi- parties were bombed alike and being the Feast of the Assumption, derable embarrassment to British assistance was given from Eire of Our Lady.
"
Mr Tylor added: "Our people believe there are many people concentration camps who hod just as delicate appetites, and they
are pnl sutislled in this case "
The Prime Minister Yes.. vertanly, but as far as I am present advised, he is being treated as a prisoner al war and will
jess.
receive treatrieul appropriate for} NEW U.S.
a prisoner.
Nazi Efforts ECONOMIC
than
The German propagandists are still trying to explam away Hess menfent, says the diplomatie correspondent of "The Times "*
ADVISER
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"I The whole affair is now closed, they attuneed at the week-end,
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT after a week in which they had CALLED IN MR. LUBIN, COM- declared with equal fervour that MISSIONER FOR LABOUR STA-
TISTICS, Hess was mad that he was per
ECONOMIC AS HIS fectly same, that he knew nothing ADVISER ON THE LEASE AND of importance, that the British LEND PROGRAMME, AND PRE- would torture him into revealing PARED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER vital German secrets, that he had TO CREATE A NATIONAL been lured acruss the
DEFENCE North HOME Sea into tish
* cunning Bri-TION,
trap. tell he
was
an
ORGANISA-
While Mr. Lubin's appointment idealist who treely undertook has not been announced officially, it is learned he will head the division of economic defence de- signed to check and counter the
a dangerous mission for the sake of the fatherland, that he was Hitler's successor and that he was not Hitler's successor.-Reuter.
"Entertaining"
Asked if he had noticed a Press description of Hess as an idealist, Mr. Churchill replied;
"I do not think I can indulge
in this retrospective
of the Press.
censorship
"There was very, great public interest in this matter.
We were
---International News Service,
a strong
by their fire and ambulance scrvlees,
It does not look, therefore, as
if there will be any great surring of minority public
in opinion Northern Ireland when the deri- Sion is announced. Reuter.
AUSTRALIA'S TEXTILE PRODUCTION
Australia's textile pro-
Axis barter drive for world trade. duction for war purposes¦
was outlined by Mr. A. W. Fadden, Acting Premier, yesterday.
FRENCH AND MARTINIQUE
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
He said that as a result of the Delhi Conference last year Aus- tralia was asked to supply very large quantities of equipment for other parts of the Empire which were partly met from accumulat- ed stocks but, with large orders
not able to give any guidance.
It was announced in Vichy yes- "The Germans gave
different terday that the Government was now to fulfil from Delhi, the most guidance every day and the suspending all transhipment visus intensive effort on the part of in- Press naturally endeavoured
to the French island of Martini-dustries and some sacrifice on the satisfy the public by recording all, que and possessions in the Carib- Part of the community would be
kinds of details that came their hand.
to.
I bean, on account of the uncer-
necessary.
With recent overseas orders,
to tainty of the situation of these work already allocated plus local
"It seems to me that the whole episode has been entertain- ing as well 18 important."
\\Nazi “Guidance” -The different and contradictory "guidance" which the Nazi propa- ganda machine has been giving on the subject of Rudolf Hess and to which the Prime Minister referred in the Commons yesterday must
islands.
requirements for the next ninc Lately, United States warships months, would throw an enormous have been patrolling the areas strain on the spinning, weaving, around the French islands.-Inter-knitting, woollen and associated national News Service.
GERMAN GROUND STAFF AT ALEPPO
be sorely tried to find an explana- Aleppo airport, in Syria, is oc-
tion of a laudatory article printed cupied by a German ground staff,
industries, also the boot industry. Total value of recent orders up- proximated £7,000,000 while those under immediate discussion were estimated at another £4,- |000,000.-Reuter.
RUBBER QUOTA
The International Rubber Re- in the official party newspaper and all the 20 or more Syrian air-gulation Comunittee yesterday Ax- "Essener National Zeltung," once ports are available for German ed the quota for the third quar the property and still, frequently use, says the Ankara correspon-ter at 100 per cent. This is the mouthpiece of Goering. dent of the Columbia Broadcasting unchanged from
The article was published on System, quoted by Reuter,
quota, Router.
the previous
operations in this area. Reuter.
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