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Heart Trouble
German Arms King, Exiled By Hitler, Caused by High BANKS
Reveals Tragic Secret of His Life
FRITZ THYSSEN GAVE GOLD TO FUEHRER TO AVENGE DEATH OF PRINCESS KILLED BY REDS
LOCARNO.
WHEN FRITZ THYSSEN, "the man who made Hitler," fled to Switzerland he left behind in Germany his coal-mines, his armaments factories, and his millions.
He also left behind a passion which changed the history of the world-his
revenge.
Thyssen had made Hitler, and he had made himself Hitler's master.
He had seen in Hitler the neurotic, penniless agitator, a man who could put Germany on her feet-and a man who could put Germany on her feet would put Thyssen on his feet.
A strong Germany would need armaments. A united, powerful and threatening Ger- many would light up Thyssen's blast furnaces. buy Thyssen's coal, set his factories working day and night to pour out arms and money- into Thyssen's pockets.
It is doubtful whether Hiller himself has ever guessed the real reason why Thyssen was eager to dominate Germany.
Naturally, be was stute enough to see that Thyssen, as hend of the German Arma- ments Trust, lived and worked for the day when Germany would be a great military machine, with himself at the throttle, and Hitler obeying him.
And the reason why Thyssen fled from Germany is just as clear. H
FRITZ THYSSEN
When the first Great War broke
saw Hitler leading the country into put it seemed that they would be
n war that would certainly be dis-epmated for ever. Germany and astrous for Germany and for Thyssen Russia were enemies, and Thyssen's himself.
factories, were turning out the guns and munitions with which the Ger- Iman and Austelen armies strove to
blast their way through Poland.
Why Do You
•Hate Russia?
Then came the revolution and the
But there was more than that in night of the Russian aristocrats,
it. Love of money and power alone
is not enough to fill all 11
thoughts and aspirations,
him
оп
ambitious one
twenty years.
man's 'Co To Paris' He
to keep
.
rond for Implored Her
"You
I
think," Bald Die Irader of the men. He put out his hand, threw back her cloak, and snatched from her breast
that the Jewelled crucifix
she wore on a gold chain. "Yes," he said, "You are the onc want."
"Very well," the sold, and to her maid she added, "You may go home." The mid hesitated. "Clear off," sak the leader of the Soviet troop. "We don't want you." She went.
That was the last news Thyssen ever had of the Princess Nodyn. except, months later the three words, "She is dead." This time he had to |believe them.
The
Thyssen finished his story, glasses were empty on the table, and The sun was setting. The cool even- ing breeze was sweeping away the warmth of the afternoon.
"My hatred for those Soviet murderers will live forever," he told iter.
Now. Thyssen sits alone in the gur- den of the Locarno villa.
News of the outside world only re- minds him of the wreck of his hopes and ambitions and his present help- lessness. And when he reads to-day of Russian guns and seroplaues fighting in distant Finland, his mind years .10 that es hack twenty tragedy that wus
was played to its end in those dark forests of the North.
Now It is possible, that Fritz if the Princess Nadyn Thyssen, even had never come into his life, might have conceived his gigantle plan for the domination of Germany by the armaments group that he controlled.
who lusted for for their
FEEDING A MODERN WAR GIANT,—Ã gunner attached to a Ministry of Supply experimental establishment in England placing part of a charge into the gaping breech of a great gun,
Chinese Will Outstrip Japan
As A Nation
WASHINGTON.-Dr. Hu Shih, Ambassador from
But seldom in history has there China, is both a scholar and a diplomat.
appeared
Bake, There
man
own
What set Thyssen on that rond? Princess Nadyn's father was killed, Why did he want to make himself and soldiers and peasants, erazed by wealth and power to be a driving!
At the American Historical Association meeting mailer of Germany? The answer vodka, danced the mad dance of red is-a woman. Or rather, the mem-revolution in the burning ruins of force, and a spark to set it off, and here, he stepped out of his diplomatic role to tell fellow ory of a woman who has long been her home.
nine times out of ten there has been scholars why he believes China will become a successful dead.
Thyssen strove frantically to gei
Princess Nadya was To-day Thyssen, n grey-haired In touch with her, but failed.
the wornan In
modern nation before Japan. Thyssen's life. man of sixty-five, sits alone behind Months passed without news, and His real aim for Germany, as the Westernisation
machine, here in Locarno,
was dend.
was victory over all
n woman.
The
of China,
the high walls of his brother's villa then his spies brought word that she world's greatest and stood in achieved by a slow, voluntary
It was not many years ago when It was not true. But it was then he sat laughing and talking with that Thyssen began to hate Russin
How About Asia?
In the event of recognition of a
he way. And enemy No. 1 was infusion of democratic ideas, the state of war-in-Eastern Asta, he Russia, which had dealt him the most Ambassador held, is on a more asked, would the United States be grievous blow he had ever suffered. permanent basis than Japan's as ready to apdicate its rights there apparent rapid transformation as it has been in the European con- forced on the people by the war-troversy? lorits at the top.
DELIEVING THAT HITLER MEANT EVERY WORD HE SAID, THYSSEN PROMISED HITLER HIS WHOLE FOR- TUNE. His Glee
Was Short-Lived
Hitler, through Thyssen's schem- and the old Ing with von Papen
was
Hitler one summer afternoon at the He swore he would be revenged. Dictator's retreat ut Berchtesgaden.] One day near the end of 1910, It was one of those rare occa- when the Great War was over, he slons when Hitler relaxes. They received a small, unstamped enve- talked about the post, about women lope from an agent in Stockholm. When he saw that it was addressed
A nlse historical vision" Thyssen fell strangely silent. Suddenly the conversation changed. In the Princess's handwriting his
"From the lipstick to the revolt-described by Prof. Oscar Jaszi, of tion, from the reform in footwear Oberlin College, as one of the out- Back again, as it invariably must heart leaped.
to the overthrow of the monarchy-standing causes of the present world with Hitler, to high polities. Russia "un in Finland," she wrote. was mentioned, and Thyssen became
all has been voluntary in China," situation. Urging, historians not to Finland until the revolution had
said the Ambassador.
rely too much on diplomatic docu- eloquent again.
been part of Russia, and then had Always he had been the main- become a separate Republle,
ments as source material for re- Japan Loarns Warfare hatred off spring of the German
It was from a Finnish village that President, von Hindenburg, had been
search. Professor Jaszi warned that Russin. Always he had poured out the Princess Nadya wrote to Thyssen, mate Chancellor. Although he and a diplomat,
Then with a generosity betting "diplomatic documents are occasion-
he forecast his money
that this ally composed with the special In- to finance the antl-telling him of her adventures.
Thys-
of creating ELTE alib for Bolshevik campaigns, the ceaseless sen, who had believed that she was the Nazi Party had dropped 2,000,000 same element of freedom "may some tention stream of anti-Red propaganda which dead. tried to go to her, but was ure-votes at the last election, Hitler knew day break down the solid core of blurring responsibilities in advance." Nazi Germany was producing.
vented by the war that the White that all he wanted was a good, popu- ancient habits in Japan as it has in
Professor Jasz! charged that a "Why," asked Hitler slowly, "why Russions were woging against theor
Jar stunt to swing publle opinion in China.
Only the adoption of Western colossal "we-are-not-to-blame" liter- his favour. He had already used
already is being built up anti-Semitism as an
cry; armaments and methods of warfare ature
cristy. The whole he pointed to Bolshevism as the has Japan been outstandingly suc-in the present
the Ambassador declared, spirit of Hitlerism," he said, "can be "Japan," he sold, "has succeeded in found in the German literature 20 before the advent of the gaining this coveted knowledge years
Fuhrer." where all other non-European na- tlons have failed."
do you hate Russin so much?"
Thyssen leaned back. There was a long slience, and then he answered:
He sent letters to
now
chemy.
the Princess, rent ene
Bolshevista.
HE POURED HIS MONEY
INTO THAT WAR
"Go to Paris." he wrote.
She stayed in Finland, In the neighbouring Republic of Estonin
election
So was born the most colossal been political fraud that has perpetrated
Reichstag fire.
our Ume-the
Thyssen warmed his hands at the Reichsing fire, and then rubbed them in glee.
"I will tell you. It's the first ilmo
have mentioned her since. ...... And this is the story that Thyssen which, like Finland, had once been told him, the story of £1 personal part of the Tsar's Empire, lived a tragedy which led one man to noble family with whom her father's dominate one nation and threaten the family at one thre had been closely
He could not foresee the day when safety of another with all the might connected. They invited the Prin- Hitler, in the attempt to save him- at Germany's command. It is a loveļcess to visit them.
self from disaster, would offer Russia She story
was their
guest for several When Thyssen was a young man, weeks, and nearly every day she sent his hand and seek Russin's help. rich,
charming, and talented, his a letter to Thyssen telling him that
cessful,
father's Rhineland castle was often she was alive and happy. Then the CONSIGNEES' NOTICE. the Neutrality Act and the im- Columbia University described the
ceased.
The Impossibility of writing In- Dr. James Phinney Baxter, Presl- telligible history purely on na- dent of Williams College, contended ¿tional basis was brought to the nt- that the American Government is fention of the historians by Prot. unwisely shaping its neutrality polley Walter L. Dorn, of Ohio State Uni- upon the basis of our popular "likes veraly, during a discussion of cul- and upon our moral disapprobatlon." tural patterns in modern European
Declaring President Wilson's history. diplomatic victories before the World
Cultural Patterns War permitted European neutrals to "breathe a little easier," Dr. Baxter Dr. Cariton J. H. Hayes of position of combat zones had been tionalism as the main thread in the SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES "tile short of disastrous" to neutral cultural patterns of European atates,
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES Old World nations,
but Professor Dietrich Gerhard di JTO many of 19,"
he said, "it Washington University maintained it
but not nationalism
foreign He went by sen from Danzig to
Bringing Corgo from Marseilles via seemed unwise for a neutral govern- WOR
ment to extend its responsiblilty be-policy and war that were the chief Tallinn, in Estonia,
In the requirements of inter-clements
the integration and searched Saigon.
Consignees are hereby informed yond until he found the small, unpretch-
European states. tious, home of the Princess's fellow that their goods with the exception national law.”-
of. Oplum. Treasure and Valuables exiles. Tearfully they told him the are being landed and stored into the sad story.
One afternoon, they said, the Prin. Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon
Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kow
the gathering place of members of letters the Kaiser's Court. Not only Ger- man aristocrats, but also their Rus- sian friends, noblemen and noble- WOMEN of the Tsarist regline, came there.
It was at a "hunting party given by his father In the woods surrounding the beautiful Land- berg Schloss that Fritz Thyssen, then thirty years. old. caught his first glimpse of the lovely Princess Nadya, daughter of one of Rumala's wealthlest and most Influential Grand Dukes.
She was only sixteen years old, but had already a woman's beauty, her great, dark brown eyes throwing her bright, fair hair into piquant contrast. Thyesen, then as now, looked like a man without a heart. That is silli his reputation among his business ossóciales. Perhaps that is
why
they have naver guessed his secret.Į He fell in love with the Princess Nadya that day In the Landsbergi woods.
met
Ho and the Princess often after that, and as she grow into womanhood'an understand. ing developed between them. THEY · KNEW. THAT – THEY LOVED EACH OTHER.
Letter after feller from Thyssen went unanswered. At last Thyssen made up his mind to find out for himself, the rea- son for this strange silence.
cess and her maid went for a walk
evening the mald
In the woods near Tallinn. In the loon, whence delivery may be obtain-
ed immediately after landing. returned alone. All claims must be sent in to me and in tears. The only word that ton or before Wednesday,
recognized.
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her lips would speak was "Ochrana February, 1040, or they will not be
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Ochrana."
It was the word that all 'Rus- slan emigres dreaded. The Ochrana was the dreaded secret police of the Soviet Government. Later the malt was able to tell what had happened that after-
In
Damaged Packages will be examin ed by the Company's Surveyor Messra-Goddard and Douglas the presence of the Consignees at 10.00 a.m.. on the 17th February, 1040.
Consignees must have a Revenue When she and her mistress, came lomeers in attendance when any duti to the crossing of two paths in the able goods are examined by the Com- wools three men stepped out of the pany's Surveyors,
noon.
undergrowth and stopped them. Tha No Fire Insurance will be effected muld screamed, "but was silenced by by us in any case whatever..
n gesture from the Princess.
"What do you wani?” said Nadya
quietly.
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