THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1840,
MORE SECRET HISTORY
Russians Admit Loot Of
How Von Papen Brought Hitler To Power Manchuria
Ceremony At The Vatican
Vatican City, Feb. 27.
Pope Pius XII to-day gave the
Formation Of.
Third Reich
FRANKFURT, FEB. 27..
sacred pallum, a strip of white[HOW HITLER HARANGUED THE FORMER GERMAN
wool picted on the shoulders as an insignia of Archbishop's rank to ten Cardinal Archbishops in a teremety st the Comstorial) Hall
were
Bernard
Anonu thean Cardinal Griffin of Britain and Josef Cardinal Mindszenty Hungary,
of
Before the presentation of the
pallium, mass was celebrated at which the Pone gave communion| to friends of the Cardinals and a Tow diplomita Les,
At the actual rerramony of the oro entailon the recipients sat in chairs facing the altar while the Pope occupied a throne near the Kltar.
IN
CHANCELLOR FRANZ VON PAPEN INTO A BE HIND-THE-SCENES POLITICAL MERGER THAT RESULTED IN THE OVERTHROW OF THE WEI- MAR REPUBLIC AND THE BIRTH OF THE
TO - DAY" BY THIRD REICH WAS REVEALED AMERICAN MILITARY GOVERNMENT INVESTI. GATORS.
A HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED ACCOUNT OF I SECRET MEETING BETWEEN HITLER AND FON PAPEN. #HICH PAVED THE WAY FOR THE NAZI REGIME, THE INVESTIGATORS REPEALED THAT BARON KURT VON
COLO. GNE BANKER, WON FOR HIMSELF THE TITLE OF "MIDWIFE OF THE THIRD REICH" FOR BRINGING THE TWO POLITICAL LEADERS TO- GETHER IN HIS MANSION EARLY IN 1933.
Each recipient know before the Popen asked him to confer the pallium. The pontiff then placed
Schroeder told investigators the wool strin on the shoulders of the kneeling heure, repeating that when Panen was ouated as that it came from the tab of Chanceller at the end of 1932 Saint Peter (the palliums had he suggested to Schroeder tit lain on inat tomb until just be an exchange of views with it- fore the ceremony) and that itler would be a good, idea, and Was "a sign of jurisdiction."
Schroeder arranged a meeting Tre one then blessed each
for January 4, 1933. Cardinal
onol A-ho
Blood then
Wilhelm Keppler, an economic placed his own maiter on his own head and kissed the altar. Asso-advisor to Hitler, acted as in
to termediary
alated Press,
and, referring
Russian Stripping Of Manchuria's Industry
WASHINGTON, FEB. 27.
COMMENTING ON THE STATEMENT BY THE
RUSSIAN COMMANDER IN MUKDEN
SCHROEDER,
your
Hitler as "my brother-in-law," that "in the wrote Schroeder that my event
brother-in-law take a meal in should house I must state that he in no circumstances takes any alcoho-| water,1 lie bevernges but only fruit juices, ice and milk. Also, for the last year or two, he hust enjoyed only vegetables, cereals, fruits and so forth and feels. physically fine as a result."
TOWERING RAGE
Hitler arrived in a lowering rage and demanded why Papon's Gerament had sentenced two Nazis to death under a law, de- signed to hinder Communists but which misfired. Papen dis missed the issue with a stats mont that Hindenburg would probably pardon the Nazis.
British Interest In Spain
London, Feb. 27.
The British Foreign Qles lo day instructed Sir Victor Mallet, British Ambassador in Madrid.
Mukden, Feb. 27, The Soviet Commandant at Mulden, Major-General Kovtoun Stankovitch, sald yesterday that some Japanero war Industries in Manchuria have 'boori Bent Russin under the Big-Threo agreement made alther at Yalta
Berlin.
(Tain was the first official confirmation oficial
or
of frequent of Russiana Tomoving
to "make a full report" on the heavy industry as war booty),
In press conference execution of Spanish anti-Fanclat
allied correspondente,
Oristino Garcia.
A
-
with the com
"IR
At the same time the spokesmander was asked about the so- called stripping of Japanese-built man said
was "no that there
heavy machines reason to subnore" that Britain stituted war booty.
and what s01 would break relations with Spain.As far as that is expernod,
The message. to Sir Victor. Recordin
decision by the to a which niso asked for an investi-
Big- execution gation of the
-Threo, we could not leave of Spanish
happens of a here so it
some have republicans and the
trini of
out," bo snid. others on charges of been taken
ut places whero the the Socialist Party in Spain, pre- Europe
stationed some coded by a few hours to-day's Americans were decision of the French Cabinet to machines were taken and shipped
the Franco-Spanish frontier. Prosa,
home
Russia." Associated The
Foreign Office spokesman at a press conference said that Sir Victor would probably "in- formally notify" the Franco
Government that the court mar- tials of the Spanish Republicans when they were not in the armed forces were having a "deplorable effect on public opinion" in Bri Lain.Associated Press.
Labour Obstacle
Weather Men Confer
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