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THE CHINA-MAIL”, AUGUST 9, 1941.
DOUBT OF
NAZI GENERAL'S SUICIDE
(By Reuter's Special Correspondent)
IS A BREAK in the Nazi front going to come in the Luftwaffe? That is the question which is on many lips in London. Rumours of dissension be- tween Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering, air chief, and Herr Hitler have been too persistent to be ignored and have culminated in a report that the field-marshal has been replaced by 49-year-old Field Marshal Milch, who has the honour of having train- ed parachute troops who created such havoc in the invasion of Holland.
The mystery man of the week however is dash- ing General Ernst Udet wha is said to have com- mitted suicide while under arrest by the Gestapo. This news was published in the "Daily Telegraph" in London which claims that its New York office has documentary proof. Berlin denied it.
official
The Nazis did
not do the obvious thing of allowing foreign correspondents to see the presum- ed suicide. Therefore London not only believes the story but claims that it is all in keeping with the pattern of events which i includes the flight of Herr Rudolf Hess to Scotland, the alleged dis- grace of Marshal Goering and the developing crisis between Herr Hitler and the General Staff,
GERMAN INTEREST
IN ULSTER
German agents are be- Dead or alive, General Udet lieved to have been study- will always remain one of the most fantastic figures in thing British Army manoeu- motley gallery of personalities vres in Northern Ireland, thrown up by the Nazis.
He was
an ace flyer in Baron Mannfried Where the troops have von Richtofen's famous squadron been repelling a mock in- in the last war. One day he
found himself in a single combat vasion.
with the brilliant French ace Guy Reports of the manoeuvres could Nemer, After several bursts of be taken to the German Legation fire the German's machine-guns in Dublin without difficulty, and jammed and he thought the end the German Minister receives had come. Nemer saw what had diplomatic privileges for com- happened, he waved his hand and flew away with all the chivalry in the world.
"Flying Down”
came to
When lean days Germany after the last war General Udet became a
sort of
flying clown. He used to put on a false beard, baggy trousers and a top hat and fly recklessly a few feet from the ground as if it were all an absurd joke. Then he became a flying "stunt merchant" in films and perform ed some breathstopping feats in the "White Heil of Plta-Palu."
to
Brains Behind Luftwaffe
When Herr Hitler came power Marshal
Goering took on the task of building the largest air force in history and General Udet was summoned as his chief assistant. The famous ace was still a young man not yet forty and he possessed amazing gifts of l'organisation.
INVISIBLE
ANTI-TANK
WEAPON REPORT
London newspapers make cautious refer- ence to a secret wea- pon invented by a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, aged 24.
It is an anti-tank device, which is invisi- ble to approaching tanks, and is said to have "devastating powers of destruc- tion."
The "Daily Express" says: "The British be Army may soon equipped with the device. High officers believe that it may be of a certain means stopping Panzer (mechanised) troops. The device already has been used by the Army and Home Guard in one area."
EMIGRES
municating private information to BACK THE
Berlin.
а
SOVIET
A senior officer said he was sure the German Legation knew every- thing about the troops and their dispositions in Ulster. There was
Eire was no suggestion that party to the German activity. In a manifesto, issued by the Lieutenant-General H. E.Young Russian ("Mladorossi") Franklyn, commanding the Bri-Party in Shanghai, Mr. U. A. tish forces in Northern Ireland, Stepanoff, leader
the party, essential to the Army if the Bri- all political controversies and to believes that ruthless discipline is calls upon Russians to throw aside
tish are to beat back the Germans, help their native land as much whose army must be taken as as possible in its struggle against the only worth-while yard-stick Germany. of efficiency.
of
a
"The German army la experi- The party, although antagonistic enced, self-confident, and well toward the Soviet Government, led," he said. "Its soldiers are will forsake its previous policy hard, ruthless, and determined. toward the present government in They represent a tough proposi- Russia as long as it defends the tion, and we have to be tough native soil. to take them on successfully. "We must achieve the highest "Mladorossi"
The manifesto states that the
have expected otherwise faults in training reap- possible standard of discipline, German attack against Russia for a long time and that, although pear in tragic fidelity on the bat- unable to take active part in the tlefield: Training must aim at defence of Russia,
they will in physical fitness,” alertness, and self-reliance. The offensive spirit words, faith and thoughts belong In fact it was obvious that he and speed-physical and mental only to their native land. was the brains behind the Luft--are essential. We must encour. The party has always been waffe while Marshal Goering age
a suspicious people in the guided by interest in Russia and collected medals and filled news world.
The rigid control imposed. her family of peoples and in this reels: In 1937 he visited England by out-dated formations cramps difficult moment," when Russiari where he received a cordial wel- the initiative. of the soldier." come from his old. enemies. He
paid many compliments to the British Air Force without. appear-
Ing to be terrifled by its size. ARMY
His final disgrace and presum- ably his death came over Russia. He said it was.madness to expect the Luftwaffe to fight the Russian Air Force and then the R.A.F. As he proved to be right he was placed under arrest. Germany's bravest airman has paid for his courage in speaking his mind to the great Adolf Hitler-Reuter.
DIVORCE FOR.
ACTRESS
TRAINING
LINGUISTS
!
►
blood flows from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea, when the Rus stan people are resisting every and each. German thrust into their country, the members of the party, who are sons of Russia, re- peat once again that the place of each Russian is on the side of his nation that there can be no politi- cal controversies, and that Rus sians can and should give their lives only for their country.
FRENCH SAILORS
FREED
"P" MEN, THE INTELLIGENCE |OFFICERS OF THE BRITISH ARMY, ARE.... TRAINED LIN- GUISTS. IN A RECENT EXER- CISE IN THE BOUTHERN.COM BR MAND A NUMBER OF THE BEST A Vichy, report states that the GERMAN-SPEAKING OFFICERS Germans have released six French” WERE INSTRUCTED TO ACT AS Admirals and 4,000 sailors wha Miss Tallulah Bankhead, the SPIEB AND ENEMY AGENTS IN have been war prisoners: <l«, day) actress, has obtained a divorce at A MOCK INVASION.
It is expected that 6,000 more Rono" from her husband, John Whenever on
one was captured the will be released. Emery, on the grounds of mental | Intelligence officer at headquarters cruelty,
had to examine the man in Ger- man. No word of English was allowed to be used.
SIR P. GAME'S ESCAPE
Though the "spies" used' every wile to withhold Information, the Intelligence officer gleaned valus- bla knowledge in every case,
CABINET'S AIR RAID SHELTER
The British Cabinet has an air- Plecing together scraps of in-raid shelter a hundred feet deep. While touring London areas formation from different prison-"somewhere below London,?? during a raid, Sir Philip. Game, ers, the Intelligence officer at where it will meet when the Commissioner of Metropolitan divisional headquarters was able occasion warrants. This is re- Police, had a narrow escape. Two make out a report which helped vealed in a trade magazine by a bombs fell a short distance from the corps commander to know the firm making a special carpet for his car,
enemy plans and to descat them. I the shelter.