1941-05-14 — Page 2

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 14, 1941.

YOU TAKES YER CHOICE

Hess Mad Or Engaged On Private Peace Mission?

Nazis Unable To Make Up Their Minds On Rudolf

THE

NAZI PARTY'S "EXPLANATION" OF RUDOLF HESS'S FLIGHT TO SCOTLAND HAS NOW BEEN ISSUED IN A PARTY BUL- LETIN, WHICH DECLARES THAT “A PERUSAL OF PAPERS LEFT BEHIND BY HESS DISCLOSES THAT HE LABOURED UNDER THE DELUSION THAT A STEP TAKEN ON HIS PERSONAL INITIATIVE WITH ENGLISHMEN WHOM HE FORMERLY KNEW WOULD LEAD TO AN UNDERSTANDING BEING REACHED BETWEEN GERMANY AND

BRITAIN.

"He has actually, as has been confirmed by a report from London, landed in Scotland by parachute near the place he wished to visit, and was presumably picked up there injured.

"Rudolf Hess, who, as was known to the party, has suffered for years increasingly in a physical sense and took refuge in various forms of hypnotism, astrology, etc.

"Attempts.

eltenlate t+

what extent thine popl

ate to

blame for camang Hess's mental! disturbance, which led hun to take this step. are being made 1 is also cunce vabic that Hess

in the end wa led to a ap by the British

OF

"THE WHOLE MANNER HIS ACTION CONFIRMS, HOW- EVER, THE FACT ALREADY GIVEN IN THE FIRST REPORT THAT HE SUFFERED FROM

E DELUSIONS

else,

"1e beter than anyone knew the meitty peace offers made by the Fuehrer, which came from

CHANGE IN

SHANGHAI

COMMAND

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

the bottom of S heart. Ap- One of the most vital parently he laboured under the

personal posts in the American mil-

in pression that

by

FELL OUT OVER RUSSO-GERMAN RELATIONS?

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

The theory is held in Washington by number of officials that Hess and Hitler fell out on the ques- tion of Russia and Russo-German rela-

tions. Mr.

Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State, announced that no official despatches

had been received on Hess. Reuter.

sacrifice he rouht prevent a deve-itary machine in the Far Commons In

Jopment which, in his eyes, would East will change occu-] only and in the complete destruc-

tion of the British Empire!

pants to-day when Col-

The Nazis Regret onel Dewitt Peck hands Dubious Mood

"Hess, whose sphere of activity, over command of the within the party, did not have Fourth U.S. Marines in

44 45 known, lay exclusively

a clear notion about this act or Shanghai to Colonel

its conseqüiences, 19 may he

-

deduced from notes he left.

Howard.

"The National-Socialist Party Receptions for Col, Howard and regrets that this idealist fell a farewell parties for Col. Perk victim to such fateful delusions. crowd a week until thes latter

By this act nothing has been changed in the prosecution of the war against Britain, forced upon the German people. "It will be emaed, us the Fuehrer announced in his last speech, until the British leaders have been overthrown or Ready for peace.” — Reuter.

NANNY

dis

ON RUDY

leaves Shanghai on May 22 to assume his new post in Washing- toti.

are

Observers say that Col. Howard's task of commending American troops In a city aur

rounded by the Japanese and In a hemisphere under glower- ing war clouds will be "enor- mously difficult," and may be

come more до If the crlaia sharpens.

Japanese elements.

IS GIFT HORSE A

A useful salvage scheme Is being worked in Tottenham under the direction of Mr. Robert Morrison, M.P. for North Tottenham. The scheme consists of selling bits of shrapnel picked up in the berough to a West-end firm, who make them

which into brooches and ornamente and

demand In America as souvenirs of the London bitz. Mr. Morrison

art in

says that a penny a plece is given for the chrapnel, which works out at £60 a ton, Pho to shows: Here are some, of, the types of paper knives, complete with shell splinter handlee. (Fox. Copyright).

The

Really

Significant Fact

THE GERMAN SUGGESTION that Rudolf

TROJAN? Hess is suffering from hallucinations and

that his 'plane crashed as a result of an “Obviously a further accident, was scathingly set aside yesterday statement will be made in by the "Baltimore Sun.“ the near future regarding the flight to this country. of this very high and im-

"His real crash," the newspaper says, 'was when he crashed into the headlines.

They point out that U.S. Marines portant Nazi leader," What is significant is that when a Nazi gets

the doing police duty in Settlement, and in the course of declared Mr. Churchill in fed up his only safe course is to flee to the their job often clash with pro- the Commons yesterday very country he had formerly sworn to put "I refuse to believe They cite as example the gun when invited to make a down.

Wang Ching-wei statement about Rudolf fleeing to Germany?"

Whoever heard of a fed up Briton Rudy is insane: there's fight between

police and Settlement police yes- either a serious Nazi split terday, when a Marine detach- or else he has formed a ment was rushed to restore order.

International News Service.

far-reaching plan," de-

clared Frau Paula, the old TOO TOO

nurse of Rudolf Hess, in

-

an exclusive interview SHOCKING!

with Reuter in Cairo

yesterday.

Hess.

Australian reaction to Hess's Mr. Lawson (Labour) raised

sensational flight to Scotland was the question of the German expressed by Mr. A. W. Fadden, radio reference to "total instabil- Acting Commonwealth Premier, Ity" and asked whether the in Sydney. Premier had any information on this subject.

Another member asked wha- ther the Premier was taking steps with the Minister of

Information to see that dealt piece of news is with akli and imagination."

"this with

"Hest's flight," he declared, "indicates the realisation within the Nazi hierarchy that Ger- many is unable to win the war against civilisation, "The German radio is right. Hess has been suffering from a

MR. CHURCHILL SAID "THIS disease which has been progress-

LEASE AND LEND FIGURES

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

John M. Keynes, econo-

The announcement from London Paula added "I nursed him thut Hess will be removed to a ntil he was a grown-up boy. He secret destination, is described in was broad-minded, of strong char-German circles in Berlin as "in- actér and extremely honest..

teresting." From early childhood

Berlin political circles feel cer- Vaunted of German Invincibility tain that Mr. Churchill will use and always fought for top, place, the affair for "the vilest purposes Liwhether at school or elsewhere. of propaganda," according to a Other supplementary

He often used to discuss im- semi-official statement issued in! portant political questions with Berlin-Reuter.. his father,"

IS ONE OF THOSE CASES IN ing for years; he was, but appar-mic adviser to the British WHICH THE IMAGINATION IS ently not now. SOMEWHAT. BAFFLED BY THE he

FACTS AS THEY PRESENT THEMSELVES." (LAUGHTER).

Hebs, who was born in Egypt, received his carly schooling there.

Reuter.

FRAU HESS IN GERMANY

Frau Hess and her children are Gerpiony states a message from Berlin, denying reports, that

ey are in Ankara-Reuter,

HESS. NEPHEW IN U.S. ARMY

Single Idea

Mr. Fadden added that mil-

Treasury, revealed in Washington yesterday that the British believe

"The disease is Nazism, which ques- tioners begged Mr. Churchill to has done more harm to the world $7,000,000,000 is only the bear in mind Hess's record of in less than 10 years than all the first instalment of the devotion to the evil genius of

scourges in history."

United States Lease and Europe. (Cheers).

lions of Nazie, deluded with Lend programme. falšo promises, must now be

Mr. Keynes disclosed that it was occupied, with a single idea, "If President Roosevelt who conceived this is what Hess thinks of the the Lease and Lend Iden, and add- war, what are we to think?" ed that he and other British, of- In the opinion of Mr. W.ficials feel the "gure will be Hughes, Commonwealth Navy Increased."

They questioned the prudence of announcing that Hess was in * Gustav, Adölf. Hess, nephew of a Glasgow hospital as being Rudolf, is now serving with a unfair to the people of Glasgow, United States anti-aircraft battery) who might possibly expect a rain in the Panama Canal Zone,

of bombs,

His father, Gustav, brother of THE PRIME MINISTER Rudolf, died in the United States DECLARED: "HE

WON'T Minister, "the flight indicates the Mr Keynes stressed that this in 1820, says a Reuter cable from ALWAYS BE IN GLASGOW." first crack in the granite of the should be done" "Boon.""Intertia- Bristol (Va).

REUTER.

· Nazi "temple.” Reuter.

tional News Service,

ረ