1941-05-13 — Page 2

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 13, 1941.

The Most Sensational Story Of The War

RUDOLF HESS, HITLER'S DEPUTY, DESERTS: LANDS IN SCOTLAND

Rudolf Hess, Hitler's Deputy, who has deserted the Nazis.

Nazis Rush Statement Alleging Mental Disorder

LEAVING BEHIND A FAREWELL NOTE, RUDOLF HESS, HITLER'S DEPUTY, HAS FLED FROM GERMANY AND IS NOW IN SCOTLAND. 'HE CRASHED FROM A GER- MAN FIGHTER WHICH SIGNIFICANTLY, WOULD NOT HAVE HAD ENOUGH PETROL TO RETURN TO GERMANY.

The most amazing story of the war was told last night in a communique from No. 10, Downing Street, a few hours after Berlin had attempted to anticipate the news by stating that Hess had left a note showing traces of mental disorder and had either committed suicide or fallen from a ‘plane.

Hess, who broke his ankle when he landed, brought photographs of himself at different ages to establish his identity, and has been

Nine Shot recognised by several people who knew him well.

Down On Sunday

"It is now known that in Sunday night's attack on this country a total of nine enemy aircraft were destroyed,' says last night's Air Ministry com- munique.

A FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIAL HAS FLOWN TO GLASGOW TO SEE HIM IN HOSPITAL.

Mr. Alfred Duff-Cooper, Minister of Informa- tion, was present at the Ministry last night when this remarkable announcement was read to repre- sentatives of the world's press in a tense atmosphere.

Although he has never played! an open part in the Nazi Cabinet, in the way of Goering or Goeb- bels, he has often been reported to have had great influence over Hitler.

The earlier German announcement was obvi- ously breaking the news to Germans that Hitler's "shadow" and successor-designate after Goering, tag on September 1, had disappeared.

Hitler's Decree

Addressing the German Reich- 1939, 011 the day of the German invasion of Poland, Hitler declared "Should Anything happen to me, then my successor is Field-Marshal Guer-

The Berlin statement said Hitler had ordered the arrest of Hess's adjutants, for not preventinging and after him the party meni, or reporting his flight, and there were several attempts to suggest that Hess was suffering from mental disorder.

ber. Hess, to whom you then owe your duty as just as you do to me."'

would leader,

At one time a picture of Hess It added there was very little

The following statement.

WAST

to follow Goering as successor to was seen mure often in the illus- enemy activity over Britain dur-issued from 10,

Downing Street,! Hitler int the event vf their trated papers and on the screen ing daylight yesterday.

at 11 o'clock last night: —

! deaths.

than that of any other Nazi leader "RUDOLF HESS. DEPUTY The official National-Socialist except Hitler.--Reuter.

Early yesterday morning bombs were droppert at a point on the south-east coast, doing little dam- age and causing no casualties. Reuter.

MOSCOW CONDEMNS

RASCHID

FUEHRER OF GERMANY AND Party announcement stated "The PARTY LEADER OF THE party member, Rudolf Kess, who. NATIONAL-SOCIALISTS, HAS uwing to his suffering from an LANDED IN SCOTLAND IN THE¦ illness of many years standing, FOLLOWING CIRCUMSTANCES,¦ Was strictly forbidden by the AS

"ON THE NIGHT OF SATUR

Fuehrer to embark upon any fur- AND ther flying activity, recently again DAY, MAY 10, HE LEFT AUGS BURG. BAVARIA, IN AV was able, contrary to orders, to AEROPLANE FOR AN UN get possession of an aeroplane. KNOWN DESTINATION AND LANDED BY PARACHUTE IN, SCOTLAND. SUSTAINING A

Moscow radio on Sun-BROKEN ANKLE, NECESSITAT.

ING HOSPITAL TREATMENT.

NAME AS HORN

Hitler's Shadow

res-

HESS HAS BEEN DESCRIBED

FRIDAY"! HITLER'S MAN "HITLER'S SHADOW." The Fuehrer had nominated him as

his successor - designate after Goering. He was “ÔN SATURDAY, MAY 10, AT ponsible to Hitler alone--above Himmler, Goebbels, von Rib- ABOUT 6 P.M., RUDOLF HESS

bentrop and Goering. SET OFF ON A FLIGHT FROM AUGSBURG FROM WHICH HE HAS NOT RETURNED UP TO THE PRESENT TIME.

day night sharply criti-| "WHEN HE WAS TAKEN HE

"A letter which Hess left be- cised the attitude of GAVE HIS

distracted i hind shows by its BUT LATER ON HE DECLARED Raschid Ali, the Iraqi HE WAS RUDOLF HESS.

ness traces of mental disorder, and it is feared that Hess was usurper, according

the victim of hallucinations.

to

"HE BROUGHT WITH HIM VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHS OF

Ankara reports received in HIMSELF AT DIFFERENT AGES. APPARENTLY IN ORDER TO Cairo yesterday.

ESTABLISH HIS IDENTITY.

for

In a broadcast

Rumunia, the announcer is stated to have described the Iraqi rebels 45 "instruments of foreign powers."

It is understood that no reply has yet been received from Raschid All to Egypt's offer to mediale in the dispute with Britain.-Reu- ter.

President

Feels "Fine"

THESE PHOTOGRAPHS WERE DEEMED TO BE PHOTO GRAPHS OF HESS BY SEVERAL PEOPLE WHO KNEW HIM PER SONALLY.

"ACCORDINGLY, AN OFFI CIAL OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE WHO WAS CLOSELY AC- QUAINTED WITH HESS BE- FORE THE, WAR, HAS BEEN

SEE HIM IN HOSPITAL."

Arrests' Ordered

The Fuehrer at once ordered the arrest of the adjutants of the party member who alone had uny knowledge of these flights and who, contrary to the Fuehrer's orders, of which they were fully "ware, did not prevent, or failed to report, these flights.

accident?

Hess was Hitler's private secre- tary in the old Beer Cellar days) and was interned with him in the Fortress of Landsberg. There he took down the frst

pages of "Mein Kamp!" at Hitler's dictu- tion.

of confidential information which

required from Hitler about to be overrun.

100 Per Cent. Party

Man

HUGE SHIP BUILDING EFFORT BY U.S.

to

Eighty per cent of the total tonnage so for lost by the Allies, according Admiralty figures, is at present under con- tract or construction in United States ship- yards, according to figures issued yester- day by the American Bureau of Shipping.

The figures are 800 ships totalling

tons 5,055,400

May 1-Reuter.

on

ARGENTINE

AND NAZI

REGIME

When Hitler came to power, Hess, at the head of the liaison "We want no regimes staff, brought to Hitler every bit which are against liberty,

state human น

and dignity Christ," declared Dr. B. E. Alvear, ex-President of the Argentine Republic and leader of the Liberáls, addressing "a Radical Convention in Party

Buenos Aires yesterday.

Hess spent his boyhood in Egypt "In these circumstances it must and went to an English school at be considered that the party Alexandria. The outbreak of war SENT UP BY AEROPLANE, TO member Hess either jumped out in 1914 prevented him from going

of the 'plane or met with an to an English 'university.

The Convention "is celebrating He was a 100 per cent Party the 137th anniversary of the Last month Hess was reported man and never wore any other Sudden Death"

to have flown to Spain with a uniform but the brown shirt of Argentine Assembly's, adoption of the song "Liberty" as the National the Storm Trooper or the black

Anthem. PRESIDENT ROOSEVÉLT, Ís This communique of Mr. Chur-message for General Franco.

Later an official denial that coat of the S.S., Hitler's Black official! "FEELING FINE," ACCORDING CHIll followed an earlier

he was actually visiting Spain was Guard. TO REPORTS FROM

National- THEnnouncement by the WHITE HOUSE YESTERDAY. Socialist Party issued by the Ger-issued, but it did not say he had

not been there. Although stiff and weak from man news ligency. the effects of his recent stomach trouble the President was well enough yesterday to receive the Australian Premier, Mr.-Menzies, --Reuter.

ed that Heta met with audden

10.

Said to be mild-mannered, Hess speaks little and acts quickly and after · Hitler himself lives the most frugal life of any of Nözi 'Teaders.—"Reuter.

-"Hallucination”

the

Denouncing Argentinians "who now clamour for neitrality," Dr. Alvear said they were some of the some time ago, people who, thought they could take trouble over the Falkland Islands, but that question had never ruffled Anglo- Argentinian Frélätlofis. 'and some day would be settled in the friendliest way.--Reliter.

The Nazi communique alleg. One Of Old Guard death in mysterious circum. Twelve days ago Hess was ut Rees, whlie on an aeroplane the Nazi Brown House in Munich from Augsburg, Bavaria, receiving Vice-Admiral Salvador from where he took off on May Morino, the Spanish Minister of The facts that the deputy speci- Marine and leader of the Spanish ally chosen by Hitler should be The German stätement sug-Fuldngist Syndicate.

suffering from "d"disetise which gested that Hess was suffering Since the 1934 purge, when has been progressive for years," from "mental disorder."

Captain Ernst Roehm and other that he should be watched over It said he "either jumped out National-Socialist Party leaders by "adjutants" and should justify of the 'plune or, met with an were killed on Hitler's personal the fear that he was "a victim A further 17 enterprises, accident," and added that Hitler intervention, the Hess affair 18 of hallucinations," seem to throw with a firm in India for the sup- including the Rumanian Danube Has ordered the arrest of the probably the most sensational a lurid light on, the Nazi reginie shipping company; have been "dead" man's adjutants: -

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Nazi No. 3

BIG ORDER PLACED IN INDIA Arrangements; are being made ply of 3,500,000 sanitary cans, event in German political history, even, as one London commenta conforming to British standard Hess is a man of Imposing tor phrased it, "to the presump specifications; it was stated-in "Provence, tail, Woll-bulle and on that Hess's, hallucination Simila yesterday. These cans, can With Intenso, c commanding ayos, might have taken the form that be used for foodstuffs, for which Hà ta one of the. "Nazi-Old Germany, & could not win the the Middle East has placed an Guard.

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order in Indlas – Reliter.