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"Der." On The Screen

Mr. de Valera can hardly be counted among politicians who will say anything to raise a laugh. Yet at the Carlton Theatre in London, recently, he raised one which was both loud and long.

He appeared before the audience: in a "screen interview." He gazed with a blank solemnity which, hadi

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1933.

WHEN THE REICHSTAG BURNT

EVENTS THAT PUZZLED

EYE-WITNESSES

PREFACE TO REVOLUTION?

(By A German Eye - Witness.)

The writer of this article is in a sports shirt and trousers? Im

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he beer a professional comedian, refugee from Germany, and untü spite of such extraordinarily in- would have been ample warning recently he played an important adequate apparel, he had managed' that a joke was on the way. Then, part in German public life. The to find room in his trouser pockets trial of the meu accused of setting for his Dutch passport, a Com- rending from his notes--

fire munistic call to action, Communis- "Peace," he began, "has reigned the Reichstag building

tic newspapers, and, furthermore, a throughout Ireland for 18 months began September 21.

It was on the evening of Febru- considerable quantity of incendiary Jast that the German material in the shape of fire- All are convinced that Mr. de ary 27 Valera was perfectly serious. Had Reichstag was destroyed by fire. lighters.

Incendiaries in Berlin, whose fell The been otherwise he would have Was it Capt. Goering-now a gen- paused to allow the inevitable mirtheral and the Premier of Prussia-work, according to the pronounce

of Capt. Goering, was to to subside-a process known in the as many in the world, to-day are ment

believe, or was it the furnish the signal for the bloodiest trade as "timing the laughs." In-inclined to

who carried the in-revolation known in the world's stead, he hurried on, and the words Communists immediately following were drown-cendiary torch into the monumental history, carry about with them, and the Brandenbur at the greatest inconvenience, as much incriminating material RA

Your Daily Smile

worse.

SNAP-SHOT

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I got into conversation with a high Government offcial In

Hitler's Arrival

ed by the audience's galety, which building hard by did not completely subside among ger Tor?

The Communists. 1.8 18 well possible! uy inmediate neighbours until the time came to compose their faces known, are accused by the National-

the in expressions of reverence appro-Socialists of causing the fire.

I myself saw the Reichstag born. Prussian Ministry for the Interior. private to the performance of Mr. white and

ing. After half a year has passed "By to-morrow morning there will Coward's "Bitter Sweet."

I find no dißeulty in recalling all no longer be a Communist party in the scenes which on that memor-Germany," he told me. How did he able night passed before me. come to know that with certainty?

Some ten

minutes before nine At five o'clock next morning his o'clock the telephone bell in my prophecy was fulfilled; the Com- A film actress has just married office rang. A voice at the other munist party was dissolved, and its her cameraman. Nel the Brat end Informed me briefly, "The leaders, or so many of them as time he's taken her for belter or Reichstag is burning!" It seemed could be caught, were put under

Incredible. I got into touch with lock and key. the chief station of the Berlin Fire A Good Start

Brigade, which confirmed the re-

The tall flames were still leaping community. Sir Hilton Young Dora was in the middle of her port. As I speeded in a taxicab

Reichstag building--It was able on this occasion to get singing lesson when her mother ar-through the darkling Tiergarten above the

before

ten o'clock 1933. aside a misgiving of which a rived on the scene. After listening towards the Reichstag I heard from was a little

Adolf Hitler all sides the clang of bells of the when there appeared at the Country Hospital, Shang-good deal has lately been heard. for some time she broke in:

"Ah-er-how is my daughter fire brigade engines which were in his big Mercedes car, attended hai, to Margaret Evelyn, wife The response of local authorities.

Do you think she will hurrying to the fre.

by his bodyguard. He was of F. G. Madsen, a son, Eric. to his request for the submis. getting on?

ducted by police officers, Storm sion of clearance programmes eventually make a great singer?"

Approach Barred

officers of the fire Troopers, and might have been called dis The musle teacher seemed at a

Already a strong cordon of police, appointing at the end of Septem-loss for words.

had been drawn round the Reich-brigade into the Chamber, already ber, the date tentatively

"Well, madam," he said at last, stag, whose lofty cupula glowed red completely burnt out, where Capt. against the sky. My special pass, Goering was awaiting him to make posed. But, in fact, the returns "it's rather difficult to say." are still pouring in, and for some "But you must know by now if however, enabled me to get through his report. This took some twenty

complete, and weeks will continue to do so. She possennen some of the qualifica- unnindered, and after four minutes Hitler and Goering, together with.

girl's mother I was standing there as one of the Those already received indicate ations." said the

fret unoffelal witnesses before the other officials, left the

which was still burning. structure. now girt with Goering, as in his long brown flames.

The firemen, under the direction leather coat he got into his car, at last gave the order for Ober- of their Chief, Oberbranddirektor|| Teacher: "If one maid can clean Gempp-who has since then fallen regierungsrat Heyde, the Director of fair room in to hours, how long does a victim to Gleichschaltung--wer Foreign Office, to permit the Im-

of the Press Department of maida working to hard at work. It was most inter-

MADSEN.-On October 25.

The China Mail

Hong Kong, Tuesday, October 11, 1913

Slum Clearance In

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Britain.

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total of clearance and rehousing sharply.

harvel she's got a mouth." re-great

actually in excess of what is alm-

is no assurance

upon

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Clever

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minutes to

con-

then

Reichstag,

the

ed at by the Ministry's five-year plied the teacher, discussion

slum-ischemie. Sir Hilton made refer- clearance af the Conservative ence to another vital point-the Conference at Birming-fear that, under the Act of 1930, Buurty ham will give new impetus to a there movement already by far more compensation for owners of soundit take two

gether?"

esting to watch them. But still patiently waiting journalists of the ᎠᎱᏅ . vigorous and determined than und properly maintained

Pupit: "Four hours."

more interesting to recall were other German and world Press to enter any earlier assault upon a deep-perty which happens to be includ- a clearance area. It ta

circumstances that one noticed, of and look over the Reichstag-short- rooted social evil. Mr. Geoffrey jed in

TAKEN. Lloyd, in moving the resolution common knowledge that this ap

Both the photographer and the to-day they have taken on a deeper That was the first official permit little meaning at the time, thoughly before half-past ten, an hour and A half after the outbreak of the fire. pledging support to the Govern-prehension has been among the ment's campaign, recalled that it thief influences deterring local mother had failed to make the rest- significance.

less little four-year-old sit still that authorities from entering

Nobody, whether Deputy of the for ordinary mortals to go into the in that same hall

Reichstag. The Minia-long enough to have his picture Reichstag, diplomatist or journalist, Joseph Chamberlain nearly sixty clearance schemes:

taken. Finally, the photographer was allowed to approach the burn- In spite of this I had myself years ago launched a slum-clear-ter's statement that "the spirit

does not sanction suggested that "the little darling" ing building, still less to enter it already succeeded in getting into ance and rebuilding campaign of the Act"

not all. Towards the burning building, together with that still stands out in the re-such injustice, and that it will might be quiet if his mother would And that was

few half-past nine the newspaper Preas an official of the political police, cord of housing reform as the not he so administered by him. boldest and most beneficent ever though welcome, does not fully minutes. During her absence the passes which had been given by the who had come with a large party of his colleagues from police head- Prefect of the Police to a very undertaken. That great man's dispose of the criticism that the picture was successfully taken. enterprise and energy

way home, the mother restricted number of journalists quarters to investigate. set an Act makes such injustice possi

with National- example to which his country-ble, and that legislative amend,

were declared cancelled, and the building teemed

their "What did the nice man say to journalists were forced, by armed Socialiste, wearing

party men as a whole nave never lived ment is what is needed to meet

police detachments,

the badges, who had no apparent busi- slow, the case.

to leave Progress

That is the view of make mother's darling sit still?" up.

has been

"He said, "You thit athill, you vicinity of the Reichstag.

ness there. Or did they have busi- spasmodic and without co-ordin-thore highly competent to speak, fittle brat, or I'll knock your block

But some 150 SS men (Hitler'sness there? ation. Now for the first time a and the intentions of an indi-

off. Tho I that sthill."

(Continued on Page 11). Storm Troopers) were allowed to Government has given a resolute vidual Minister of Health lead in

go unchecked into the Reichstag. a mass-attack, as the herdly be said to touch the point!

On what pretext, for what purpose? Minister called it eight months they raise.

And what did they do there? No one has answ Ceny Fawkes

these questions. Like

ago, on this central problem of}

can

Jeave the room for Β

On the asked :--

Facts You Did Not Know.

The Storm Troopers stayed for

about three-quarters of an hour in

The vast

ITALY GAINS NEW AIR RECORD

the burning Reichstag building. Upside Down Flight For Quite openly some of them came 2 Hours 8 Mins. out singly, and then went back, no one hindering them.

At twenty-five minutes past nine,

on the strength of my special 'pasa,

I tried, in company with Oberbread-

AMERICAN FIGURE BEATEN ·

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Britain's social life. Councillor The League Of Nations. Denton, the Conservative trade

A portable electric pump has been unionist who seconded the reso-

There is no difficulty at all in invented to force air into the water lution, spoke of it as the most being sardonic about the circum in a bath tub to form a blanket of Important that had been substances under which the

Assem-soap suds. mitted to the party Conference bly of the League of Nations is for years past. That was the now meeting. The League has a

Both parts of a conversation are spirit of the discussion; and the year's record of defeat and disay reproduced on unbreakable records fact is eloquent of the new con-pointment to look back upon. by a German inventor's attachment centration of the nation's mind

for telephones... Japan capped a policy of upon this most vital question. Mr. Lloyd did not go too far in open defiance by withdrawing from

The plate holding the meat in a direktor Gempp, with whom I had Flying with his landing gear saying that it is going to be "the organization. The Disarme test of our political system."ment Conference and the London pressure cooker revolves while long been friendly, and with his ex-turned skyward, Lieut. Tito Falconi,

Economic Conference were father:

in use, dropping the juice over the press approval, to get into the Italian Royal Air Force officer, re- Britain will have to prové, în á

Reichstag building. All my pro-gained his up-side-down flight re- world where the principles of dragging its painful way to a solu

ed by the League. One has been meat to baate it..

testations and explanations were cord, only 24 hours after he had: Parliamentary democracy are

useless. The police officer covered lost it to Mia G. Burcham, a 80-- challenged as never before, that tion not yet in sight. The other, ces of such an event. The montime with their revolvers, and do-year-old Long Beach, California, in vant evil such as this can be the great economic assize upon tough-minded of realists will hes-clared that they would shoot if I aviation instructor.

effectively and swiftly rooted out which so many hopes were based, tate before the prospect opened up did not immediately turn back. Falconi flew in an inverted poní“. under the British Constitution. has been a clean fallura. As to by such a disaster as the confess Meanwhile, swift as the wind, tion for 2 hours, 8 minutes 54 Sir Hilton Young, in a speech the problems lying ahead and like-ed failure of the aspirations born naws spread of the arrest of the seconde, making a round trip to an admirably lucidly to invade the Langue's delibera-out of the agonies of the war. The alleged incendiary, Marinus van der Santa Barbara, about 200 miles. summary of the, whole matter, tions, they are many and serious most confirmed militarist will think Lubbe, "It's a Jewish Com- This is 21 minutes, 55 seconds showed once more how all the enough- Germany, Austria, the of the affect upon his own people munist," was the information given better than the now record set the conditions needed for success ars

Four-Power Fact, the Jewish ques of any open avowal that the orby the masses of Storm Troopers day before by Burcham, and nearly now fortunately present. They tion, the general problem of the ganization of peace has failed and and Nazis, who suddenly appeared an hour and two minutes better are in the main those financial minoritien. And yet, it is allo- benceforth it is back to the union all sided, to, the thickly-packed than Falconi's record which Bur conditions dwelt upon by him at gether too early, for the profes-mitigated. reign of tooth and claw crowds who stood at some distance chem broke, the outset of his campaign; and sionally tough-minded critics to Much of the work of the Leugas is round the Reichstag watching the Burcham was among the first to congratulate Falcons at the end of he can now add to them, the re-hail the end of the "ers of confer not of a kind easily publicized, gaunt spectacle, v markable awakening of a pur-uces" and the return to hard" Preparatory studies for uniform Shortly after this arrest know his now record fight. The Long- poseful pablic opinion. It is a "realities. Repeatedly we have tariff action, international prison ledge of the name of the alleged Beach aviator served notice that task in which he has had the aes the "defeat" of the conference reform, crime, black slavery in incendiary had spread, How was he intends to try soon for a new strong support of every leading idea, the collapse of the League Africa and white slavery in Asia that?: How, too, did this man van record. AY influence that of the Prince and an end to all this post-war non-those are some of the problems der Lubbe, who was able to kindle The Lieutenant looked rather of Wales among the chief of sense, And always at the last and that in the vary act of study help a fire which would have done credit wobbly on his feet after he de them the works for the well-mant we have seen the astions inculcate the habit of world buto a Nero, come on a mission to acended, but told friends he felt being and the good name of the awakening to the dread

Met the Reichstag alight,

t, clad only "Ans."--Reuter,

which was