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RUSSIA'S FIGHT
The Strange
Strange Case of HESS'S PROPHET
By Elizabeth Castonier
In April, 1933, the famous glamour boys, the one ho loved clairvoyant Jan Erik Hanussen, best,
a Polish Jew with an unpron- This private prophecy dis- nounceable name, disappeared appeared from his fles and. from his Berlin, flat. The Nazis Hanussen was taken from his had just obtained power, and his flat by two SS. men. disappearance was only men-. After a white, rumours began tioned casually in the Press to spread that Hanussen had been murdered. Hess gave an after all, he was a Jew.
*
And the body was found in a
But Hanussen had played a order that Hanussen must be very important role in the Nazi found, dead or alive, at any cost. Party's development. He had been poor a few years previously. But by performances in variety theatres all over Central Europe wood near Berlin, with builets he had made a fortune. He lived in his back. in a luxury flat in Berlin's May- fair and everybody who was any. body consulted him; business men, mullionaires, aristocrats and they had to pay heavily..
in
A humble shoemaker Berlin's Buburb immediately made a statement that he had seen a man, hands tied behind his back, looking like Hanussen, being pushed past his house into the wood. He heard shots, look- He foresaw the Nazi danger ed out and could just see the two long before it actually came. Nazis in uniform putting back And he tried to remain in con- their revolvers and dragging the stant touch with more or less corpse, away. This shoemaker important party members in nover returned to his home.
But it was an almost official order to become a "Schutzjude"
(Jew protected by the Nazis). secret in Berlin that Hanussen Among his constant customers had been shot because Hitler had were many who were killed in suspected Hoss to be the man the great purge of June, 1984: who might kill him some day. Helnes. Brueckner, Count Hells-
dorf.
Rudolf Hess came for advice: to. Hanussen. It was a well- known fact that Hess was a highly strung, superstitious youngster who believed in the "Kurpfuscher" (those who diagnose diseases by looking into the patient's eyes, touching his hand to establish contact, and prescribing harmless herbs and dried grass at exorbitant prices).
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Japan
GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty
PLINE, Change Times, Tas
BU QIT, 65 KIA, P
"Our leader has decided to strengthen the war cabinet- ho's giving himself an extra vote!"
Lacks Air Power
To Dominate Far East
By HENRY WOOD
United Press Staff Correspondent
modern
standards
"As late as 1939; Italian
of
Hanussen had prédicted! Hitler's future and given him
"Japan's current output of But only
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4 the Philippines, China and even advice many times.
military planes is estimated at before Hitler came into power. (UP).-The entire balance of the Aleutian Islands.
250 per month," the survey Afterwards Hanussen was just power in the Far East may have The survey points out that us states, "or, one-eighth of the a Jew, but dangerous because he been, changed by the apparent evidence that Britain is fully United States output. Her lack THE semi-scepticismi with know. too much of the private certainty that aerial rather than aware of the manner in which of machine tools and of trained pilots are severe handicaps. which the earlier Russian claims | lives of leading Nazis. Many of naval or military strength will aviation has changed the whole Moreover it is doubtful whether
them felt very uneasy about this] of successes against the 50- man who knew that the "inner be the decisive factor in the balance of power in the Far Japanese aeroplanes comply called invincible
war circle" surrounding Adolf Hitler present war, according to the East a British Air Marshal is with Nazi
now Commander-in-chief of the efficiency. machine was received in the was rotten and consisted of Instituta of Pacific Relations.
sadists, masochists and perverts sympathetic democratic
coun- of different grades. He gave
A complete survey of Japan- British Far East Forces. He ese aviation just completed by "British spokesmen have al- planes, whose inferiority to trics, is now rapidly giving way large sums to the party.
demonstrated, to unqualified appreciation of financed Count Hellsdorf, who the Institute reveals that where ready claimed air superiority in British aircraft has been since. were employed the magnificent showing which was constantly in debt and being] as Japan has always counted in the South China Sea and the by the Japanese in Manchukuo
blackmailed because of his the past on her Navy to main- Japanese have not contested it," and Mongolia.” abnormal inclinations.
tain her supremacy in Far the survey states. Eastern waters, the
The survey also ascertained sudden
Fought On Paper that as the Japanese have con- Shortly before taking over the shift. to aviation as the domi-
centrated on bomber planes for The great battle of aero- use in China where there was command in Germany, Hitler nating factor in modern war- had a detailed horoscope made fare has caught her quite un- planes versus warships has little if any opposition, they by Hanussen.
the Soviets are making on the 2,000-mile war front. The original suspicions. as to the extent of the achievements of the Russian army and air force were governed very largely by two considerations; firstly that it was generally believed outside
of Russia that Stalin's fighting forces lacked first class equip- ment and real leadership; Becondly, Russia, like Germany, had long practised skilful propa- ganda which, it was feared, might be misused in the form of exaggerated claims as is the
case with Germany.
more
than
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Hanussen made' two of them, prepared.
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already been fought on paper at have failed to develop the fast the desks of all military staffs fighters now necessary to ac- an official one and one for his Her Navy, operating by neces-
in the Far East," the survey company bombing expeditions, files. The one handed over to sity in the limited South China Hitler... predicted victories.
states. "This theoretical battle capecially against fleets. successes and immortality. The Scar is already-within-effective takes place in the South China Whether or not the Japanese other foresaw Hitler's death. striking distance of aerial bases Sea. Its object on water is the pilot is capable of manning and engaging in He was to be shot by one of his at Hongkong, Netherlands India, Japanese Navy. The planes are fighters
predominantly of British and "Stuka" diving is also an un- American design. The stage known factor, it is pointed out. has been set. However, while the British have openly stated whole war strategy of the Far The survey finds that the the basic revolutionary outline East is now apparently based of their new strategy, Tokyo on the changed fact that avia- has been strangely silent."
My 3-Weeks Fast
the
Doctors look askance at the fast of grass.
At other times during the fast T as a therapeutte method. They can- not afford to take chances, and there undertook prolonged spells of heavy
cent. of
tion rather than naval power, is
and 1,000
A
has always surprised me that Face and neck first began to show Mr Gandhi should use his fondness signs of getting thin. Girdle fat for fasting as a half-threat to authori- proved the most obstinate, and there
The Institute finds that Japan going to be the decisive factor ty in moments of political crisis. No was still plenty of it left at the end Happily both theso con-
the of the period.
has at the present time-accord- here in the future. one should know better than
The dealre
for physical netivitying to the claims of the Navy The decision of the Nether- found expression in garden work some 4,000 warplanes, and an lands Indies to defend all of the violin, trumpet, saxophone to your S.Moutrie & Co., Ltd. ceptions proved to be entirely Indian leader what a valuable heal piano accompaniment!
unfounded. Russia has demons- exercise a food fast can be.
Not long ago a Judge made pointed The summer was at its glorious annual output of about 3,000, northern islands, instead of
to
benents to be height and this new-found light-
divided between trated to the world that she reference
evenly
the merely Java, as the gateway to obtained from fasting, but the masses ness and energy kept me out of
Sumatra, the Instituto attrl- A Army and the Navy. possesses both splendid equip- still regard the idea as something too doors from sunrise to sunset.
butes to this fact. While it consideration, the back of my house there was a quackish for scrlows ment and imaginative and high-Abstention from food is not a cure paddock about 1 acre in extent.
"The same source, however," was unable to get full figures on scythe, the Institute states, "disclosed the increased aviation force that ly competant military leaders, all, but it has a certain value as a mowed this field with
is being built up there, it cites handed, in less than while the Moscow propaganda health exercise, and it will 'reileve carried and stacked the hay, singie that about 60 per
the symptoms of many long-standing
a week. It Japan's natal warplanes are their export licences for planes department has been so careful chronic complaints that have led had never proved long enough to obsolete and possibly a danger from the United States as in- the best of the medical pro- enable me to mow this same patch to their pilots' lives rather than dicative of what is being done. in wording its communiques ression.
to the enemy.”
These call for 100 of the that subsequent events have
Against this number, the heaviest bombers once shown that Russian successes have been is always a risk attached to the prac- digging. At no time did. I experi-western dependencies, the in- lighter combat planes in understated. These are factors tice of fasting. But most people. In ence any feeling of faintness or even stitute finds, have already 2,000 single month.
China's Role good health or not, can fast for quite weakness.
Family arrangements made it de-planes in the Far East at their which breed confidence not only a long period without harm.
With this new development in Russia Itself, but among her My own fast was undertaken with sirable that I should preside at table disposal.
Not without some This would be more by one of aviation as the big factor for allies and sympathetic neutrals, the consent and under the supervi- during all meals.
sion of a doctor. It was my intention early misgivings usual table che third than the modern planes of bringing about a change in the The most gratifying feature of the
to give but the double hurdle proved too of carving the Joint, buttering the the Japanese naval force. -Vir- balance of power in the Far
up
at the same time, so, performing the usual chores smoking Russo-German wor is that Russia in
Intually all of this concentration East, the survey points out that the first nation in the present Euro-
withstood ambitious for me. During the fast children's bread, and pean conflict to have
fast the nose becomes based, which means an advan important role. of During Nazi Invasion longer then 30 without suing for an armistico:ys, I smoked about 20 clgarcites a. day retrospect, I do not recommend this, lof western nerial power is shore- China is destined to play. an
and drank about five pints Argentine fea without milk or sugar, supersensitive to food odours, ané
In addition, I chose Argentine ten because it con- to sit at table with the delicious tage additional to its quantita-
"It is not accidental," the smell of roast beef right under tive superiority. tains practically no tannin.
one's very nose is almost more than the basis of the bulk of the survey states, "that informal The human will can bear. Even the Japanese planes would still be in discussions have recently taken, sniell of vinegar proved tantalising, the homeland more than 3,000 place between British and Chit- Thanks probably to the cigarettes, although ordinarily I never use It. miles away and it is extremely ese military authorities. It may By and large the altuation on the hunger in the ordinary senso scarcely
unlikely that the Japanese would similarly be assumed that the eastern front is. consoling and troubled me, but I developed on in- Life Full of Zest
Doubts have
be willing to deprive the home- present "course of American ald encouraging.
given ordinato craving
marzipan. The doctor visited me daily, and way to confidence, and there la There is a reason for everything, it
mentation of a mere sentimental growing conviction that Hitler has seems, and my doctor was able to ex- was amazed at my physical activi-land of all protection by naval to China is no more the imple committed the supreme time plain even this quaint result. The ties. Indeed, I think he was at first planes."
or moralistic attitude. Cannot Build smoking caused the liver to sceptical that I was carrying out
"This policy is now supported downfall. This is not to suggest that release come of its stored sugar. This strict fast, but the rapid and con- the Germans are already n beolen diminished the immediate feeling of asient reduction of weight noen
Besides her present aerial in- by the Staffé of the United urmy in Russia; fortunes in ander hunger, but Inter on it created a convicem to food was caution feriority, precisely at the mo- States Army and Navy, as they warfare can swing very rapidly and
craving for sugar to make good the Hitler is not likely to withdraw from
delightful. At first only soups, ment when aviation is taking visualise the Far Eastern de this eastern hdventure without resort amounts so released.
weight at the beginning of the then small helpings of solids, and the ascendency in modern war- fences against Japan as an to every type of strategy known to
fast was 108 lbs. I was stoutish, but finally back to ordinary food again fare, the survey reveals that for integrated whole China, the his military chiefs; but he does face
not netually fat. After two days Every dish was a re-discovery,
basic reasons that cannot be Philippines, Netherlands Indin, the prospect of falling morale among
began to experience flavour heightened a hundredfold by 1115 forces
while the Russians, without food encouraged by their fine showing to pleasant sense of lightness, a feeling the long abstinence. The temptation changed, Japan has little oppor- British Malaya, Australia, and date, are growing more determined that physical activity would be wel- to over-ent was tremendous, much tunity of over building up to Burma all of them pooling their come. At the end of a week my mora dificult to resist than the present demands for nylation if military resources with those und, more confident in their resist-
sho is to maintain her supre- put at their disposal by the ance. These can be all decisive in weight was down to 184 lbs; at the temptation to eat during the fluences in n' conflict where men and end of a fortnight it was 173 lbs; at itself. materials are quantitatively quali dual
OPEN AIR CONCERT
by the
Massed Bands
of the
2nd. Battn. The Royal Scots
and
1st. Battn. The Middlesex Rogimont on the Hongkong Cricket Club. Ground 9.30 p.m. SATURDAY, 23rd. AUGUST, 1941, Watch for further details
more
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than that, she has secured the initia- tive on several sectors, notably in the central extreme north and in the region. It is the Nazis in these areas who now face the prospect of terrifying blitź.
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which is to presnge his ultimate
A Craving for Marzipan
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41
him.
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the end of three weeks it was 100 lbg, DOUGLAS COMPTON-JAMES. Imacy by force in the Far East. United States."