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The Strange Case of HESS'S PROPHET
By Elizabeth Castonier
In April, 1933, the famous glamour boys, the one he loved. clairvoyant Jan Erik Hanussen, best.
a Polish Jew with an unpron- This private prophecy dis- nounceable name, disappeared appeared from his files and from his Berlin ilat. The Nazla. Hanussen was taken from his had just obtained power, and his flat by two S.S. men. disappearance was only men- After a while, rumours began tioned casually in the Press to spread that Hanussen had been murdered. Hess gave an after all, he was a Jew.
order that Hanussen must bo found, dead or alive, at any cost.
*
But Hanussen had played a very important role in the Nazi He had Party's development. been poor a few years previously.
And the body was found in a But by performances in variety wood near Berlin, with bullets theatres all over Central Europe
in his back. he had made a fortune.' He lived in a luxury flat in Berlin's May- fair and everybody who was any body consulted him: business- men, millionaires, aristocrats and they had to pay heavily.
A humble shoemaker in Berlin's suburb immediately made a statement that he had
seen a mun, 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 never 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 Hess to be the.man the great purge of June, 1934: who might kill him some day. Heines. Brucckner, Count Hells- dorf.
Rudolf Hess came for advice to Hanussen. It was a well-
Hongkong Telegraph. known fact that Hess was a
Tuesday, Aug. 5, 1941.
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RUSSIA'S FIGHT
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).
Japan
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
BINI, PAMu Thanna, Ing
Fig. 3. & 151, OTY, AR BIL TU
"Our leader has decided to strengthen the war cabinot- he's giving himself an extra vote!"
Lacks
Air Power
To Dominate Far East
By HENRY WOOD
United Press Staff Correspondent
* Hanussen hnd predicted
"Japan's current output of serve all tights and forbid republications. Hitler's future and given him
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4 the Philippines, China and even But only
military planes is estimated. at advicé many times.
250 per month," the survey before Hitler came into power. (UP)-The entire balance of the Aleutian Islands.
The survey points out that as states, "or one-eighth of the Afterwards Hanussen was just power in the Far East may have a Jew, but dangerous because he been changed by the apparent, evidence that Britain is fully United States output. Her lack know too much of the privato certainty that aerial rather than aware of the manner in which of machine tools and of trained pilots are severe handicaps. lives of leading Nazis. Many of naval or military strength will aviation has changed the whole Moreover it in doubtful whether them felt very uneasy about this! man who knew that the "inner be the decisive factor in the balance of power in the Far Japanese circle" surrounding Adolf Hitler present war, according to the East a British Air Marshal is with
now Commander-in-chief, of the efficiency. was rotten and consisted of Institute of Pacific Relations. sadists, masochists and perverts
"As late as 1989, Italian A complete survey of Japan- British Far East Forces.
"British spokesmen have al planes, whose inferiority to | large sums to the party. He ese aviation just completed by
demonstrated, were employed financed Count Hellsdorf, who the Institute reveals that where ready claimed air superiority in British aircraft has been since 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.
THE semi-scepticism with which the earlier Russian claims of successes against the so- called invincible Nazi war machine was received in the sympathetic democratic coun- tries, is now rapidly giving way
to unqualified appreciation of
war
the Soviets are making on the 2,000-mile
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 different grades. He gave
Bustern
the
+
aeroplanes comply modern standards of
waters,
sudden Shortly before taking over the shift to aviation as the domi- command in Germany, Hitler nating factor in modern war- had a detailed horoscope made fare has caught her quite un- planes versus by Hanussen.
Hanussen made two of them, prepared.
Her Navy, operating by neces an official one and one for his
The one handed over to sity in the limited South ChinaTM files. Hitler predicted victories. of Russia that Stalin's fighting | successes and immortality. The Sea, is already within effective states. "This theoretical battle capecially-against-fleets.----
forces lacked first class equip- other foresaw Hitler's death. striking distance of aerial bases Sen. Its object on water is the pilot is capable of manning ment and real leadership; He was to be shot by one of his at Hongkong, Netherlands India, Japanese Navy. The planes are fighters and
theso con-
Mr
My 3-Weeks Fast
The survey also ascertained Fought On Paper
that as the Japanese have con- centrated on bomber planes for "The great battle of aero-use in China where there was warships has little if any opposition, they already been fought on paper at have failed to develop the fast the desks of all military staffs fighters now necessary to ac in the Far East," the survey company bombing expeditions, takes place in the South China Whether or not the Japanese engaging in predominantly of British and "Stuka" diving is also an un- secondly, Russia, like Germany,
American design. The stage known factor, it is pointed out: has been set. However, while had long practised skilful propa-
The survey finds that the the British have openly stated whole war strategy of the Far ganda which, it was feared,
the basic revolutionary outline East is now apparently based might be misused in the form
that Face and neck first began to show of their new strategy, Tokyo on the changed fact that avia- IT has always surprised me
tion rather than naval power is of exaggerated claims as is the conch should use his fondness signs of getting thin. Girdie fat has been strangely silent.".
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 case with Germany.
ty in moments of political crisis. No was still plenty of it left at the end
has at the present time--accord- here in the future. Happily both
one should know better than the of the period.
The desire for physical activity ing 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 exercise a food fast can be. polis, trumpel, saxophone to your S.Moutrie & Co., Ltd. ceptions proved to be entirely Indian leader what a valuable health
at its glorious annual output of about 3,000, northern islands, instead of accompaniment!
Not long ago a Judge made pointed The summer was
to be height and this new-found light-
between the merely Java, as the gateway to reference to the benefis trated to the world. that she obtained from fasting, but the masses ness and energy kept me out of evenly divided
Sumatra, the Institute attri- At Army and the Navy. too doors from sunrise to sunset.
While it butes to this fact. possesses both splendid equip-| still regard the idea son, the back of my house there was a
"The same source, however," Abstention from food is not a cure paddock about 1 acre in extent. ment and imaginative and high-quackish for serious
mowed this field with a scythe, the Institute states, "disclosed was unable to get full figures on the increased aviation force that ly competent military leaders, all, but it has a certain value as a
health
exercise, and it will relleve carried and stucked the hay, singie that about 60 per cent. of is being built up there, it cites while the Moscow propaganda the symptoms of many long-standing handed, in less than a week. Ar Japan's naval warplanes are their export licences for planes department has been so careful chronic complaints that have defied earlier years
the best skill of the medical pro- had never proved long enough in obsolete and possibly a danger from the United States as in- enable me to mow this same patch to their pilots' lives rather than dicative of what is being done.. in wording its communiques fession.
These call for 100 of the Doctors look askance at the fast of grass.
At other times during the fast I that subsequent events have
as a therapeutic method. They can-
Against this number, the heaviest bombers and 1,000 more than once shown that not afford to take chances, and there undertook prolonged spells of heavy
is always a risk attached to the proc- digging. At no time did I expori-western dependencies, the In- lighter combat. planes in 4 Russian successes have been
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 understated. These are factors good health or not, can fast for quite weakness.
Family arrangements made it de- planes in the Far East at their Jong period without harm.
With this new development which breed confidence not only
My own fast was undertaken with sirable that I should preside at table disposal.
all meals. Not without some "This would be more by one of aviation as the big factor for in Russia itself, but among her
the consent and under the supervi- during allies and sympathetic neutrala. Russo-German war is that Russia is
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The most gratifying feature of the slon of a doctor. It was my intention carly misgivings, I continued to do third than the modern planes of bringing about a change in the to give up smoking at the same time, so, performing the usual table chores the Japanese naval force. Vir- balance of power in the Far the double hurdle proved too of carving the joint, butlins Intually all of this concentration East, the survey points out that ambitious for me. During the fast children's bread, and so on.
the first nation in the present Euro- pean conflict to have withstood
a
live on several sectors, notably in the central extreme north and in the region. It is the Nazis in these areas of a who now face the prospect terrifying blitz.
and dronk
A Craving for Marzipan
·
The doctor visited me daily, and
Nazi invasion longer than 39 days I smoked about 20 cigarettes a day, retrospect, I do not recommend this. of western aerial power is ahore- china is destincil to play an
about five pints of During a fast the nose becomes based, which means an advan-important role. without suing for an armistice; more
In addition, "It is not accidental," the than that, she has secured the initia-Argentine tea without milk or sugar, supersensitly to food odours, and
I chose Argentine tea because it con- to sit at table with the delicious tage additional to its quantita
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 smell of vinegar proved tantalising, the homeland more than 3,000 placo. between Britlab and Chin- miles away and it is extremely ese military authorities. It may Thanks probably to the cigarettes, although ordinarily I nover use it.
unlikely that the Japanese would similarly be assumed that the By and large-the situation on the hunger in the ordinary sense scarcely
consoling lo
and troubled me, but I developed an in- Life Full of Zest
be willing to deprive the home- present course of American aid eastern front
craving for. marzipan. Doubts have given ordinate encouraging.
is a There is a reason for everything, It
mentation of a mere sentimental way to confidence, and there
seems, and my doctor was able to ex- was amazed at my physical activi-land of all protection by naval to China in no more the imple- growing conviction that Iitler has
or moralistic attitude. the committed
supreme blunder
Cannot Build plain even this quaint result. The ties. Indeed, I think he was at first planes." which is to
"This polley is now supported presage his ultimate
act of smoking caused the liver to sceptical that I was carrying out t
Besides her present aerial in- by the Staffs of the United 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 a beaten diminished the immediate feeling of sistent reduction of weight scon army in Russia; fortunes in modern
hunger, but later on It created a convinced him.
The return to food was cautiou: feriority, procisely at the mo- States Army and Navy, as they to make good the craving for eugar warfare can swing very rapidly and
but delightful. At first only soups, mont when aviation is taking visualise the Far Eastern de- Hitler is not likely to withdraw fron
amounts so releared,eginning of the then small helpings of solids, and the ascendency in modern war fences against Japan, as an this eastern adventure without resort
My weight at fast was 190 lbs. I was atoulish, but finally back to ordinary food again fare, the survey reveals that for integrated whole-China, the to every type of strategy known to
Every dish wOB ro-discovery, l his military chiefs; but he, does face the prospect of failing morale among not actually fat. After two days favour heightened a hundred fold by basic reasons that cannot be Philippines, Netherlands India,
without food I began to experience a the Russians,' blk.
while forces
pleasant sense of lightness, a feeling the long abstinence. The temptation changed, Japan has little oppor- British Malaya, Australia, and encouraged by their fine allowing to dnto, are growing more determined that physical activity would be wel- to over-eat was tremendous, much tunity of ever building up to Burma all of them pooling their
come. At the end of a week my more difficult to realst than the
she is to maintain her supre- put at their disposal by the hnco. These can be all decisive in-weight was down to 184 is at the temptation to eat during the fant present demands for aviation if military resources with those
and of a fortnight it was 173 bat-at-Argif, Queners in a conflict where men and
the end of three weeks it was 100 lbs. DOUGLAS COMPTON-JAMES. Imacy by force in the Far East. United States." materials are quantitatively equal.
and more confident in their resist
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