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Despite the objections of her fiance (Alan Marshal, left) who knows more about the dread mystery than he will reveal, Ann Brandon (Ida Lupino) .appeals to Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rath- bone, right) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) to save her from certain doom. This scene from "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," 20th Century-Fox film coming to the King's Theatre to-morrow, opens the story that plunges Holmes into desperate battle against his arch- enemy, the fiendish Moriarty, in the super-crime' of the century:

THERE IS DISAFFECTION IN GERMANY BUT WHERE WILL IT LEAD?

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Bavaria, and, to a certain extent, in Wuert- temberg also. This is not mere particul- arism; it is self-protection against a self- appointed leader who brutally enforces his rule.

This state of things seems to contradict the enthusiastic welcome Hitler always se is to enjoy in Munich. The explana- tio is this: the enthusiasm is organised at the Brown House and the disaffection is a natural reaction to facis, which cannot be shouted away by Goebbels as they are vis- ible by all Catholic Bavarians,

SOVIET

MINISTER RECALLED

Sofia, To-day.

The Soviet Minister to Bulgaria, M. Lavrentiew, accompanied by the Soviet military attache, left unexpectedly for Moscow by plane yesterday.

The vialt is considered impor- tant In view of the situation in south-eastern Europe-Reuter.

It has been surprising to me to observe how the same feeling, though ténding in the opposite direction, prevails in Hamburg and Bremen. Here the people of economic Importance frankly discuss the possibility of reconstructing the independent Hansa States after the war. In these cities-and espe clally in Hamburg-Nazism has never tak en firm root. The common-sense of the employing classes and the inclination of Labour towards Communism have always proved obstacles to the Nazi propaganda.

Nowhere has the hostile or suspicious at titude of the world abroad been more bit-only great sorrow is that he cannot recreate

the Universe."' terly felt than in these great ports, which, excepting a few vessels discharging from or lading to Baltic or Scandinavian destin- ations, are now empty and forsaken. Only the warehouses, Alled to overflowing with goods, show that once there was activity gad here. Even these bear witness to a state of things; their contents, largely per- Ishable, cannot be taken away for lack of means of transportation.

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Shipping companies, exporters and im- porters have closed their offices with the Baltic exception of those specialising in traffic. Their employees, clerks as well as seamen, have been sent to training cen- tres, and one who has known these ports in their prosperous days, feels that they are now like cities ravaged by an epidemic that has left them empty of life.

To think, in this distress, what riches victory might bring would be heartening. but such wish-thoughts I have not encoun- tered. Only paid optimists try to impress on the public the certainty of a brilliant, and therefore highly-fruitful, victory. They tell the people of the treasure in the City of London and the banks of Parls; of the var lety

Fuehrer, of wonderful colonies the "Herr der Welt," will take or leave as it pleases him, and of the riches the greatest people of the world will then be able to en- joy, not to speak of the power they will wield in realising their conception of a well- organised world.

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* In the daily life of the German people there is much distress, and the failure of through the winter has the fuel supply

But greatly increased physical misery. throughout the, Nazi regime Germans have been on short commons and have grown used to the condition.

It is only in the South that there is loud grumbling at the food 'shortage, Yet the Bavarian, though his beer has been' grieve ously watered, still contrives to live better He takes his than the North German. rucksack and goes out into the country and returns with a week's supply of all kinds of good things. The peasants and farmers are forbidden to trade in this way, but ap- purently the authorities,; realising that it is necessary to handle the Bavarians careful- ly, close their eyes to these illegal prac- tices.

All over the Reich the shortage of fats is so great that soap seems to have dis- appeared, and how the people manage to is difficult to understand. keep clean it Even in the lavatories of the best hotels no soap is supplied.

the

The shortage of textiles, oven of poor substitute for cloth which is made of wood-Sbre with a small admixture of wool, is sufficiently shown by the law limiting the amount of clothing that a German may possess. A man may not have more than two suits. Friends told me that duly au- thorised inquisitors had come to their homes and examined their wardrobes to discover the what they contained and to register number of suits. Nobody is allowed to keep more than two, and if official inquiry shows that a man has more then all above that

Every German is fascinated by such a dream; very few believe that it will come true. Those who remember the Great War are frankly sceptical; those who have look od at Nazim-with a critical eye, and have not been blind to its lack of moral stam- number are in due course taken away to a Ina, doubt Hitler's ability to turn' a vic depository to be used as the tory on the field into a victory of the Gerthink best. man people. So far he has given proof of

the

authorities

his power to destroy and to procure

Naturally members of the Nazi party are means of destruction. He has yet to show treated with more consideration than others, his ability to build on the ruins an Empire solidly based on moral traditions.

and I heard of a case in which a woman's tears saved a few frocks, to which she was "In the words of a German statesman of particularly attached. A woman is not en- the old school: "Of course, there is no titled to have more than two dresses. The German who does not wish for victory position of shopkeepers, especially those However, Hitler will never be satisfied. He dealing in articles of clothing, is terrible, will think of another war. If he had the One dreary solace for all this wretched whole of Europe he would cease to take an ness is found in an intensity of hate, Cars- interest in it. He would think of `Anla" or fully, fostered hatred of the Poles is now at (maybe America. He has been likened to aa furious pitch, and the Nazi-propag ririma-donna" who must always give –new that, war upon them was justified performances so that her popularity shall such questions as one, but to ma with not wane. He is worse than that; he must sign of indignation, C-What, right had. produce new sensations to satisfy himselź (land' to interfere?""The English scoundrai of his /unsurpassed greatness. I think his have no other, wish-but to destroy us1'!)

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