Saturday,
HITLER'S DRAMATIC SPOTLIGHT
PEACE AIMS
ARE REVEALED
PARIS, Dec. 15 (UP).—Sccret instructions purported to have been sent to Nazi orators through Germany were published by the newspaper "Paris Soir," diadosing Adolf Hitler's official peace nima contemplated inclusion withirs the Reich of all territory from the mouth of the Danube river to northern France-with virtual annexation of Holland, Belgium, Rumania and Serbia.
The newspaper claimed to have obtained the document
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· from the "frontier of Germany,' It consisted of a long letter in- tended as instructions to all National Socialist orators and to all Storm Troop leaders.
signed The document was
by of the Johannes Hering, chairman propaganda committee of the Nazi party and the Foreign Office, al- though it was regarded here as a mero reflection of definite objectives announced by Hiller after the Inst Nazi Grand Council meeting.
England Accused
The first paragraph charged Eng- land always tries to "starve the Ger- man people," and therefore Germany must assure itself of sufficient arable land to cope with any foreign block- ade. In future wars, it said, no adversary of the Reich will ever be able to starve the German people.
Thus it will be posible to acquire a stranglehold on the economile and natural resources of Holland, Bel- gium and northern France," the pur-} ported document added, "such as has Poland, been possible to obtain
where, thanks to the military genius of the Fuehrer, the Reich controls the cost and mineral wealth and some of the oil deposits of the nations.
"It is obvious that if Germany does not conclude this war with increased territory she will not be able to resist even the encroach- ments of Ru7925J. ....
we
Must Be Relentless
1393 never permit Jur annexed peoples to retain any cul- tural autonomy... if
we want to obliterate from them their Ideas' of must, moreover, 03 revenge. Wo
NA We conquerors, be as relentless are with regard to sentiment toward our vanquished peoples."
The
Is The Bomber Beaten?
THE four outstanding lessons of the air war so far are not very encouraging for Germany If she should be planning, heavier ralds
According to the air corre- spondent of the British United Press they are (1) The fighter is definitely
manter of the homber. En- counters between matched forces of bombers and fighters end in the toas of anything from 40 to 100 per cent, of, the bom ber unit's strength.
(2). To make sure of hitting hin objective the bomber must at- tack in daylight and at a very low altitude. In other words, Die pilot must take his life in his hands.
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(3) Defensive anti-aircraft fire against bombers, even at con- nideruble heights, can be good an to render massed bomb- ing in daylight and in conditions of moderate visibility at night a suicidal affair.
(4) Anti-aircraft fire by "pom- pom" gu from battleships acema auficient to keep any air- craft from reaching the one point above a ship from which it must release its bombs if it is to hit the target.
ON
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
GERMANY
Death Sentence More Frequent
HEROINE IS
READY
Sole Survivor Of
60 In 1917
MABEL LETHBRIDGE, O.B.E., who, at the age of 17, Death is becoming on Increasingly was the sole survivor of an ex- common. penalty for petty theft in plosion at a Hayes, Middlesex, many. Four more sentences were munitions factory just 22 years passed last week.
At Munich
a Nazl special court ago, wants to make shells again. She has offered her services, and ordered two youths to pay the supreme penalty. They had stolen is waiting to be called up. ment from a butcher's cupboard. AL Her experience, in which every one Augsburg the sune sentence was of her 60 companions was killed and passed. on two 19-year-old youths. she herself was wounded in 47 places, Their offence was "robbing a front- has left her unafraid. ilne soldier."
Football "Storm Troops"
Nazi threats to Rumania colucide rather unfortunately with the visit there this week-end of Herr von Tachammer und Osten, Reich Sports Lender. He has taken a football team which will
ply a Rumanin uide.
Herr
von Tschammer und Orlen doubtless hopes that his hosts have forgotten some statements he unce made about sport and war.
рад football towns in action," he wald, "can be accurately compared with an infantry storming party, and the one activity is good preparation for the other. The goal of all physl- cal training was and always will be military defence,"
To this day she carries o mark of the explosion-the loss of a leg.
Miss Lethbridge said to a reporter: My own war alogen is 'We have done it before we can do it again. That is why I am ready to again the danger zone of any muni- tons factory.
criter
"In the organisation of a munitions Works I believe that older women, of the last war, are essential. like myself, with netual experience
"I would have 20 older women by that I mean women between the ages of 40 and $0-working with every five of the younger generation,
"I would insist that the alder women were thoroughly trained in the handling of explosives and from time to time were given a refresher For organising such training throughout the Relch Hitler pays hla course in order to keep them up-to- date with the ever-changing modern methods of making munitions.
Sports Leader £1,500 a year, Through Sport to Nazism
Herr
von Tschammer und Osten
has also been busy in "liberated"
Her Daughter Too "Supervisors should be carefully chosen. They must be level-headed
January 6, 1940.
As They See It Abroad
The harvest of the Moselle
Poland. The nature of his task there women, quick thinkers, possessed of Britain Drops Execution
ts indicated by the German radio,
"The principal aim of the re- organised sport movement," it states, "Is to make the people realise they are Germans and to transform than into good Nazis."
the vigilance that comes only from a real knowledge of explosives.
to
carry
"De Groene," Amsterdam
HER KNEES SWELLED UP LIKE PUDDINGS
To Go Upstairs was Agony
There is nething in which rheuma- He is a greater handicap, than in doing ordinary household dulles- kneeling, stooping, running up and down staire. How to overcome that
banish handicap, and
rheumatic aches and pains for good, la the sub- ject of the following letter:
"I have been taking Kruschen Salts for three months, and am still talking the daily doso. When I start- ed, I had rheumatism in both knees. They were very swollen-Just like puddings. I could not rise from a chair without assistance, I could not | kneel, and to go upstairs was agony. Now I can run upstairs and kneel as much as I like. My age is 37, I am 5 ft. 10 in. In height, and weigh 13 stone, so you might guess my logs have a weight to carry. I have just bought another bottle of Kruschen. Since I have taken it, I can work like a horse." (Mrs.) HS,
Two of the nigredients of Kruschen Salts are the most effectual solvents of uric acid known to medical science. Other ingredents of these Salts have a stimulating effect upon the kidneys, and assist them to expel the dissolved uratic needles through the natural channel.
Jewish Children
In Work Gangs
Polish Jews Recing from German Into Soviet territory tell terrible stories of Nazi tyranny and brutality, according to reports reaching Vilna, now handed over to Lithuania,
In Warsaw, it is stated, Jows gʻ nli ages, including women and children, are being stripped of their belongings'
For Soldier Who Deserts and drafted to forced labour bat
LONDON.
"Youngsters should not be allowed out the most dangerous forms of munitions work as we were. who "My own daugiter Susan.
Leslie, Hore-Bellslia, War Seere will be 17 in July, wants to do munitary, told the House of Commons to- tlong work.
day that the death penalty in Bri- "I shall, of course, give my per- tain's armed forces for desertion, i The Free German Radio Station mission, but I sincerely hope she will cowardice, and sleeping on reveals a new technique by which is not have to do the work I was given duty had been abolished. sympathisers are helping to stem the at her age." propaganda of the onelal German
Drowning Radio Propaganda
wireless.
sentry
It remained us the maximum punishment, he' tald, only for mur- When Nazi radio bulletins are be- the newspapera as having been so der, mutiny, ond treachery. ing brondenst in public places con-excluded. versation becomes so noisy that no-
body can hear what the announcer is Boheaded for Treason
document Informed Nazil arators their audiences must be told the Reich within the next fifty years| -- must comprise 100,000,000 persons of territorini anexation of the Danube
delta' and all the basin up to Mount saying. pure Germonie race,
It observed that linguistio and Loveen, In Montenegro of the former einical frontlers must be estab- territory of Serbia, and also Rumania lished toward the west, south and as it exists to-day, to
the #asure east, and that 1014 frontiers must strategie and commercial future of be resumed. including Austria-Į Germany. Hungary and Alsace-Lorraine.
Blacklist of Drunkards
for
Prime
Minister Nevilo Cham- berlain denied a report of the cx- Istence of a secret inner war cobi- Three men were beheaded in Ber-net. "My attention has been called In recently
having supplied to a statement," he said, blo the Da inner Information to an unnamed "foreign effect that there is now Drunkenness, never a common of intelligence service." They were Ei-cabinet composed of the Prime fence in pre-war Germany, appears wald Lakota, 20, and Johann Srokn. Minister, the Foreign Secretary (Lord Moreover, if we are not assured now to be on the Increase. Himmler. 28, both of Beuthen, and Robert Halifax), the Chancellor of the Ex- It goes without saying that the) of the Flemish coasts, with their chief of the Gestapo, has ordered Schimpf, 33, of Kehl.
chequer (Sir John Simon) and the drunkards to be excluded One of their accomplices champlons of such à policy must con-i naval boses, England will again send habitunt
was Lord Privy Seal (Sir Samuel Hoare) cede the whole plan will fail unless its feel after the signing of a peace from public-houses, The police are executed some time ago, says Reu- whose decisions are withheld from Germany is definitely assured of treaty and paralyze our navigation. empowered to publish their names in cer's report.
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Without Foundation The statement is entirely without foundation," Mr. Chamberlain assert-
ed.
[The Prime Minister's stafc- ment was taken as not applying to the formally constituted "in- ner cabine?" which was estab- lished early in September. It in- clusies the Pelme Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary, Minister for Co-ordination of Defence, First Lord of the Admiralty, Wor Secretary, Secretary for Ale, Lord Privy Seal and one Min- Ister Without Portfolio.]
Cattle trucks filed with Jews from Vienna and Progue are also arriving and their occupants turned loose in country between Mlawa and the Plock.
both civil and military, along Unes followed by the last war.
Sir John also introduced a reso-, lution in the House to empower the Treasury to borrow up to £250,000,- 000 for financing the war.
The Chancellor described the resolution as "similar to those given by the War Loans Act passed nually during the last war,"
an-
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