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Dr. Sven Hedin, the Swedish explorer and a fervent admirer of Hitler, went to Berlin recently to warn the Fuchtar against co-operation with Russia. They talked frocly and as an indication of Hitler's present state of mind the interview with Dr. Hadin, given below, is of some im. portance.
(By A SPECIAL, CORRESPONDENT)
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"HIT
on Monday," Dr. Hedin told me.
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"His manner was most confident. I have known him for six years. Usually he moves his limbs and body freely while conversing. He hates war. He does not hate England and desires peace passionately."
I asked what had been discussed at the meeting.
"I cannot reveal the details." Dr. Hedin replied, "but my
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"Only one thing can save U- Anglo-French co-operation, which Hitler's dream. Such a move, in my opinion, would bulk Bolshevism's Westwords advance and create
Bringing Cargo from Dunkdrk vistimendous and terrible power which Haiphong.
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Drive To The East
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I asked if Hitler would join a Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf, and Godown Co, Ld., Kow-powerful Western bloe strung enough Joon, whence delivery may be obtain to maintain peace rond reorganise the ed immediately after lundiruz.
world.
"Germany," Dr. Hedin answered, All claims must be sent in to me on or before 12th November, 1033,would undoubtedly do su
"Does Germany retain her ambi- tions in the East," I asked,
or they will not be recognized.
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These are not so substantial now," was the reply. The Rumin fron- tier is agreed on finally."
These things. Dr. Hedin adeled, hei had discussed with Hitler.
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German Reds
In The Open
Day after day since the war began, reports from neutral sources indi- cate growing unrest among German people,
the
There have been given without com-
ment and the sources named.
information of a: Farther detalled
similar nature now reaches thia office from a reliable neutral ob- serugr-an acknowledged expert on German afairs-who has recently returned from Germany.
His identity must be kept secret, Hiz
story follows:
"Wouk! ikter withdraw from Poland and Czecho-Slovakla?" The reply was: "There will be a semi-E Independent Polish State, which Ger- nuny will protect; but she will not give up Czecho-Slovakia."
"Threat" To Germany
Busso-German. pact makea
1 Hter the junior partner to Stalin in a new Axis. A Soviet-
Naxi war has ended-In the defeat of Germany,
Un-
From what I saw in Germany in But if the Western Powers guarun- the last few days, it would seem that teed Germany against aggression by little short of a miracle can prevent Czecho-Stovaklo, what then? I Communist wave sweeping the pressed, and this was the' answer;
country. "Germany occupied Czechn- Conditions there already are Slovakia becouse it was an outpost of recognisable compared with a moatli Boldieviem, threatening
Germany ngo.
In factories the old party group vitally."
{leaders have already been pushed Hitler. Dr. Hedin went Dn. Was aside and ex-Communist "converta" cestaln of Russia's economic co-of the Nazi Party have replaced them. operation.
Brown Shirt Party badges are fast know the details," he said, "but disappearing among the working cannot reveal them. 1 loathe the pro-1 classes; their wearers fear personal ert of England being smashed in a acts of vengeance, for the nights are war which would multiply tenfold the very dark in Germany nowadays, would be much quicker.
MOCKERY "might intervene, but Interven-
Terse Communiques May Mean Anything 12,000,000 killed in the last wear-and
RACE
HE LOOKED THOUGHTFUL
MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL, First Lord of the Admiralty, on lis way to a War Cabinet meet- Ing in Downing-street.
The King and queen boarding the yacht B. Katherine, at Tower Pier for their tour of the London Docks,
French Air Force Colonel Is Priest
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FROM the cathedrals, from the simple village churches,
and from the great religious seminaries of France Canada, USA. Japan and Shanghal Vancouver B.C. date, 10th October. the priests have gone in hundreds to fight as soldiers.
"In the for- | Manila The War Ministry lists of, machine gun, he said:
not a priest, I am a Sanduktor men killed in action show that tress I am the soldier-priests are strongly soldier, but the commandant permits Halphong
me to hold services in the long Japun represented in the front line.
gallery, and the men come when Saigon Canon Pasteru, who looks after they wish.
Shanghai and Swatow int the affairs of mobilised pricats
"Some people say it is wrong for Shanghai the Parisian dlocese. revealed a priest to fight, but I believe that Air Mail by "Air France Direct Ber- that more than 500 priests-one-a priest should face the same sorrows vico"Paris date, înt Nov. Nov. 8.
My third of the total number in Paris and dangers as people.
Air Mall by "Pan American Air- are now in the army.
father was a Pole who came to work ways Direct Service"-San Fran- in the French coal mines.
olaco date, 31st October ... Nov. B. "Here in the army, as in the Haiphong and Fort Bayard Church, I am among friends, who || Japan don't think it matters from what Japan and Shanghai class man comes. I am proud Java and Manila to be a soldier."
Among them are the Abbe Pierat, who is an Air Force colonel, three minjors, twelve captains, 134 leu-
adjutants. tenants, seven
ninety- nine sergeants, thirty-four corporals and 131 private soldiers.
A few miles away, In the French The proportion of officers front line, a group of Gennun soldiers
speaks for itself. The
prisoners captured by French patrols priests make good soldiers.
were eating the evening meal with
French company.
I met one of them in a fortress of the Maginot Line. He is twenty-five,| tall, fresh-faced, fair-haired.
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A German sergeant sniffed the airShanghai
An interpreter said: "It is coffee."
He commands a machine and anti-as the meal began, and said: "I could tank gun section, His men were on swear I smell coffee." their toes. When he gave a com-
The German answered quickly: mund there was just the right mix-Oh! Then there is n general, here!
fure of snap and friendliness in his voice.
Their Rations
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Tin jugs of strong black coffee While he showed me the beautiful were brought in. The Germans had mechanism of the twin-barrelled;
never expected to taste coffee oguin. According to them, this is the regular menu of a German front-line sol-Amoy and Shanghal dier:
Haiphong...
German Air Raid On Convoy That Failed
HERE is the first full story of the first Nazi air raid on a British convoy in the North Sea-the raid that failed.
At mid-day soup made of vege-Straits and Manila tables, vermicelli and a little meat.
In the evening sausage, brend
and margarine, and tea.
All German prisoners taken lately
have been suffering from the cold. Haiphong They complain that their clothing is | Manila not thick enough, and that their Shanghai quarters among the Siegfried forts Conton and behind them are damp.
It looks just now as though the
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They are afraid, too, of the mockery French communiques from the tion would probably be too late to for their workmates. A common jibe save from destruction the flower ofs, "If you are such an old fighter, Western Front are much more Europe's manhood. It would be
why re you not in Poland?" illuminating than they appear at toolish to tight for Czecho-Slovakia's The Gestapo is now powerless, in: first sight, states "Reuter's". Czech-Slovakin is not worth many areas. It is rapidly being dis-
Rains have swollen the frontier Manila..... Four Nazi planes were brought the German turned and dived down ashambles,"
solved in all the working-class down and five Nazi airmen were in flames,
rivers until the terrain now separat-Shenghai and Japan military correspondent,
"Would Germany want colonies
districts. Acts of sabotage, so com-afterwards picked up in the sea..
Crow Jump
ing the French and German armles Halphong Shanghal His a belt of morass. The latest speak merely of local returned?" I queried.
"Imperial Airways artillery and reconnaissance activity
The pilot munaged to land it and "Colonies are important, but Ger-mon during the Sudeten crisis lost
autumn, are now practically non- They were plcked up by trawlers,
The French withdrawal recentlyAl Mall for
Direct Service'--due London, 15th many would not demand
two members of the crew leaped out. them or in the Maselle and the Soar areas.
was to some extent necessitated by Two other trawlers were pcarer
November, deliver an ultimatum," Dr. Hedin existent. The workers are redoubling and have been landed at Grimsby.
their efforts where formerly they HOW THE CONVOY WAS AT "However, It would
than we be a
When we reached the astonishing muddiness of what were sullen, for the new slogan 1,7ACKED IS TOLD BY ROBERT the plane one of the trawlers had have been a tactical error to leave is now No Man's Land. It would generous gesture if Britain offered to "Now we are fighting for 1 Com-ATKINSON, MERCHANT SEAMAN
picked two Germans from the water. turn colonies, the present divisionmunist International."
TURNED GUNNER:- GL which is unjust...
"Hitler," he went on, "hus made The trouble started in Foland when-watched through-the-sights of They were clinging to the floats of outputs there with their communi-
German troops, after lasing 2,000 | my gun in my Przesyl and Lemberg to give the bombers dived to attack the British has dead, were ordered to withdraw from coast on Saturday us eight German
convoy of many verrels, says Homeskite reporter.
but it would be a mistake to assume
that this indicates that an apparent stalemate will continue through winter.
Each side has its observation posts and the seemingly desultory fire of guns means registering on inrgets.
May Flare Up
At any moment the whole front may flare up when the necessary artlilery preparations are completed.
It is expected that counter-battery work will be the feature of this war.
This can be done by locating the battle hostile batteries before the starts.
aid.
yel.
sacrifice. tremendous
Ho
St. uggled for peace and will struggle
Germans Don't Want War "Practically no German wants war, but all are prepared to defend their country if necessaryy.
German "Anglo-
understanding would mean an ordered world and lower taxation everywhere."
Russiaris a bloodless victory.
These troops are now back in Ger- many spreading the tale of how they fought for Russia alone.
WARNING
The middle classes are now looking to Goering as the lone pro-capitalist
1 asked my final question: "lave left in power to save the country from
teamer off the cart
were.
dered by the mud.
the machine, which soon sankcations, supports and supplies hin-
One of them was badly burned. We went on fishing, and at a quar- ater to seven on Sunday morning men on watch saw three rockets about four miles away.
They engaged a British plane that circled over the convoy.
Shelling
When it was seen that the British plane had escaped and was clear, the
We steamed in the direction of the rockets, and found three German air- men in a collapsible rubber boat. They were soaking wet ond ex- huuated.
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Ratification Of New Pact Decision By Turkey This Week
ANKARA, Nov. (Reuter) --A
We lonk them aboard our trawler The British fighters appeared-it and gave them some of our clothes, b providing for the ratification of
from nowhere and took food and hot drinks.
the Anglo-Franco-Turkish Pact was
to-day.
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will be charge of the enemy. Within minutes-A twenty-six-your-old leutenant introduced at the National Assembly Swatow and Shanghal ....10.30 am.
the valdora made off eastwards.
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..2.30 p.m. Shanghal
If you can prevent the enemy's you discussed with Hitler your going Bolshevism. They are warning him escorting warships started shelling. guns from shooting at your infantry.to England or France?"
that unless he stops the war in six lo you are going a long way towards Dr. Hedin answered: "discussed eight weeks and makes a stand somed winning the battle.
tals with Guering, who said: "All that against Russia, Germany can be done for peace in welcome, completely lost. But it was I who raised the subjrel.
convinced that it is About aluety minutes later one was in charge, and the other two They are
down until it were aged twenty-eight and thirty. kier paid: Neither do I bale Stalin'a polley to prolong the war Cleron playe France. No German hates France, until he is sure of the complete sur was only 100 feet above the sea. One had a wound in his leg..
Ile told me that he was married This war is unnecessary and a mis render by Germany to Communium, saw a bomb fall into the sea not far
The and that his baby would be twelve Government's attitude to the latest Air Mait for Indo-China, Iran, and
phases of the international situation. orlune for Germany, Britain and when he would then be able to dla from warship and explode.
In view of the diplomatic activity France. If we fight If will endanger pose of Iller and other inconvenient lamb and hardly reached the sea be- months old that day.
The eulenant told the skipper The predominance of the white races. '| Nazi lemfers at klu pleasure,
fore the warship's anti-aircraft guns
nn observation between Turkey and Rumania, some that they were on blew the plane out of the ships.
circles consider that M. Sarajoglu's u! fight When the eight Nuzi nihnes
"A Quier Day" PARIS, Nov. 4 (Neuler).—A com- munique Issues lo-day merely states, "A Quiet Day."
Hoavy Gunfire
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" DASLE, Nov, 3 (UP)-Strong gunfire is quite audible in the Alsatian sector of the Rhineland front, French planes to-day flew over German territory under Nozi anti-aircraft fire,
Amah Charged
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Hitler's
Song In
New London Revue
in the near future.
tacked I got one beautifully clear in All night they had been afloat in speech may disclose whether Turko- the sighis of my Run and waited the North Sea-about sixteen hours Soviet negotiations are to be resumed for orders to fire, but the anti-aircraft altogether. crews In the warships did not need my help, though I was badly tempted, HOW THE FIVE NAZI AIRMEN WERE PICKED UP IS TOLD BY WILLIAM WEEDON, A TRIMMER IN A GRIMSBY TRAWLER:--
The trawler was nahing in the
able German bomber coming over
Australia
Prepared,
Says War-time Premier
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or about Saturday EUROPEAN LADY THE Lord Chamberlain has reopenlak on
now licensed "Even Hitler week. There will be performances North Sea on Saturday when we saw had a Mother," the song which every evening at 0 o'clock, with two from the direction of the const. It PUTS UP BAIL
weekly matinees. Its programme of was banned when the Little productions starts with a revival of was fairly high up and there was no MR. W. M. HUGHES, who was jand our organisation. Is more com-
Australia's Prime Minister plate." Suddenly a British fighter streaked during the last war, is back in Mr. Menzies announced that the During the hearing of a charge of Theatre revue was originally The Playboy of the Western World sign of any ather plane.
Cabinet had decided that an Initiu! Sandakan fraudulent conversion of $1,500 produced. It is now included After that ho 14 presenting down from the clouds. There was a
newly-formed Common volunteer force of 20,000 should be Shanghai against Yue Ab Klu, a 45-year-old sung by George Benson-In Machiavelli 400-year-old comedy, sharp burst of machine-gun fire and the
wealth War. Cabinet announced raised immediately. Defence expen- Straits and Calcutta amah, by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at Herbert Farjeon's Little Non-Mandragoln," a translation of which
Parcels in Canberra. The Cabinet Is: diture, for the current year will be
Nov, 10, 11 am.. the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, Stop.
has recently been censed by the
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Prime Minister and Treasurer: Mr. raised from £33,000,000 to
000,000. woman's employer, Mrs.
Judging by the size of audiences, Lord Chamberlain,
Parcels only for Halphong....1 p.m. IL DUCE TALKS RG. Menzles. Other productions include a new
Already many thousands of volun Amoy
.1.30 p.m. Richardson, of Mody Road, hade show, which is the wittiest revue.
seen in London for years, will repeat Comedy of Errors," based on
teers are offering their services and Tourane
1.30 p.m. TO HIS CHIEFS its pre-war success. The company is Shakespeare and Plautus, in modern Mrs. Richardson appeared in Court practically the same, and most of the dress a revival of Henry Becque's
special recruiting centres are being Haiphong
...2 p.m. opened,
Saturday, Nov, 11 and fold the Magistrate that who was also willing to testify regarding the items are retained. Some of them The Parisienne" and performances
(Reuler).—Signor ROME, Nov. 5
Defence: Brigadier G. A. Street.
Fort Bayard, Holhow and Pakhot New Zealand amah's chorucior.
have been slightly shortened,
Noon, by the Rambert Ballet.
Mussolini had a long series of con- External Affairs; Sir Henry Gullett.
Mr. Nash, the Finance Minister, Shanghal and Parcels only for Tien- The Bon number is now "Voila lea sweep Non-Stop Nudes," Herbert Farjeon's Monday with "Banana Ridge."
Wimbledon Theatre reopens on verenilona with his military leaders, Commerce: Senator G. McLeny.
sold in Parliament that the whole of The Cabinet will have executive New Zealand's surplus products and Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Direct The including Marshal Graziani, the new
Noor. Complainant was another amah, Lt brillant skit on some of the garlah management sy that there is head of the Army Suff, Crown Prince powers to carry out war-time ad- resources are at Britain's disponi.
Bervice" due London '19th Nov... spectacles in other theatres, which had
"Negotiations regarding prices and no right to the ticket, and undowns in his first Little Theatre revue, a shelter for 1,000 people under the Umberto, and. General Soudu, the ministration as daily needs require.
Mr. Menzies, broadensiing, said: other details are now in progress,"
K.P.O. "Our preparations are immeasurably Mr. Nash added. more forward to-day than when we entered the war'in 1914.
-ngreed to put up' the bail of $750.
The case concerns: a cash ticket.
Ali Yee, who alleged, that Yue
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Hermione Baddeley, Cyril Richard, Eric' Anderson; and the rest of the
theatre,
Under-Secretary for Wor.
An apt revival for the Ume will
Il Duce conarmed the appointment J. I. Prior appeared for de-snit to te. Do congratulated on the be "Air's Button." W. A. Darlington's of Marshol Badoglio as Chief of the fendant, and complainant
success of this amusing high-speed amusing tarce, which opens at the
General Staff. |Theatre Royal, Birmingham, on Mon-| presented by Mr. C. A. 9. Russ.
zlocen-dispeller. Ball, which was originally fixed at
day with Hai · Walters as Alf and Marshal Bedoglie would normally $1,000, was reduced "to $730. The
Wallle Patch as Bill. The tour In-have reached roüring age, but is being caso was adjourned until November
Ashley Dukes has ambitious plans cludes visits to Glasgow, Edinburgh retained in the post in view of the for the Mercury Theatre, which he is and the Moss Empire Theatres. present situation.
MORE THEATRES REOPEN
Attorney-General and Industry: Mr. W. M. Hughes.
Supply and Development: Mr. R. G. Casey.
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The acting Prime Minister, - Mr. Peter Frazer, said that the first sec. MORE MEN
tion of the new volunteer force would begin training at the end of the "We have more men in training, month and other men at later periods. Parcels, only for Shanghai and Tiatsin they are better equipped, our produc The force would be held in readiness tion of arms and munitions is greater, for service when required.
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