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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 15, 1941.
EARLIER HESS LETTER TO
TO DUKE
OF HAMILTON
RINGED IN BLUE PENCIL ON RUDOLF HESS'S MAP, ON WHICH THE DEPUTY FUEHRER HAD PLOTTED HIS COURSE FROM AUGSBURG TO SCOTLAND, WAS THE DUCAL SEAT OF THE DUKE OF HAMILTON AND LANARKSHIRE.
When, in the gathering dusk on Saturday night, Hess made his dramatic crash landing some eight miles from Glasgow, the first thing he asked was the way to Dungavel.
He had mistaken a large house he had sighted as the mansion he was seeking and, failing to find a suitable landing ground, decided to descend by parachute.
Despite his damaged ankle he wanted to be taken to the Duke's house, which he thought was nearby.
to leave behind
letters which would have put an inocent
Construction upon his netion.
According to theter him farmer MacLean, Hess did not say why he wanted to see the Duke! but obviously was very anxious to do so.
A statement
authorised
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Absurd
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In the German
account it stated that Hess entertained the adea that he could return again to
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Night
Bombing Menace
re-
The
of progress search in combating the night bombing menace was mentioned by the Home Secretary Mr. Herbert Morrison, in speech in London yester- day.
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REVENGE
When young James Newman left the orphanage at Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S., twelve years ago he vowed that one day he would be revenged those who had made him unhappy there.
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Now, masked, he has held up the orphanage staff and asked for his old principal. Told the man had long retired, the bandit took staff's money.
When captured he said: "I meant to kill that principal.”
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THE MAN ALONE
Fage
NAZI APPROACH
IN TURKEY
.Frunz von Papen. German Ambassador to Turkey, had an hour's interview with President
Ingunu yesterday afternoon, says an Istanbul despatch to the off- cial German news agency.
The Turkish Foreign Minister, Dr. Sarajoglu, was present.
Von Papen paid the customary call of an Ambassador returning Office to his post at the Foreign and saw Dr. Sarajoglu.
The Turkish Cabinet hold ite usual weekly meeting later in the day, after which Dr. Sara- joglu addressed the People's Party secret session for an hour subject of foreign
on the affairs.
The Premier. Dr. Saydam, then gave a resume of foreign develop- ments, after which the meeting. in the words of the official com- munique, ended with an outburst of applause,
Nothing Known
While nothing is known of the conversation between von Papen and Dr. Sarajoglu, well-informed circles in Ankara believe the Ambassador either delivered or will deliver proposals for closer For nearly seventy years economic collaboration between John Clarke had beenGermany_and_Turkey.-- Reuter,
On the subject of night fighters Mr. Morrison declared: Thre have been great achievements. 1; am fold that research and deve- lopment have gone as far in these las: 10 months as they would have done in 10 years of norinal | peacetime, so that to-day those! who know best think night interreption we are rather: more than a shade ahead of the alone. He carried himself proudly, though he had no
enemy."
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While warning against Tasty
BRITISH WOMAN IN DEATH CELL PROMISE
The Australian Red Cross all
It wie recalled me an official | Germany after a short time when conclusions from the recent suc-relatives, no friends.
CHESUS, Mr. Morrison •lammed' German news agency broadcast he had fulfilled his miss on
He had an ambition to live when nevertheless,
he fell ill, but doctors and nurses yesterday that Hess met the Duke | rapprochement. Even the German
THE SIGNIFICANT THING, fought to save his life when he of Hamilton at the Olympic Games report characterises such an iden in Berlin in 1936.
CON-iwas taken to a Swansea hospital, Inounced that it had been advised 1 as absurd.
that Miss Winifred Harle, Aus- John's recovery brought him into а
tralian woman under sentence of new world, a world in which people spoke to him, | death in occupied France, was be- where he found friendship and ing kept in a comfortable cell and generosity.
that the Germans had promised that the sentence would not be precipitately, says
he
Germany says the documents] As a prisoner of war he would left behind by Hess revealed have known such liberty would;
wanted to meet the Duke be out of the question, of Hamilton in order to at. tempt to effect peace between Germany and
England, Reu
ter's diplomatic correspondent learns.
Earlier Letter
Indeed, if any such idea hadi been entertained, it would indi cate a certain lack of mental balance entirely contrary to the now cstablished fact that Hess 19 sane.
IS THE STEADY AND SISTENT RISE IN THE CURVE OF VICTORIES SINCE THE DARK TIMES OF WINTER REUTER.
It was stated last November that the American authorities in Paris had persuaded the Germans to reconsider the cuse of Miss Harle, who was sentenced on charges of disseminating Bri- tish speeches and news in occupied France.
His health improved so much that he started helping in the hos- | carried out SOVIET ENVOY
pital kitrien, He became a fay- Associated Press. ourite there. CALLS ON MR. HULL
John has just died cheerful to Clarification of the uncertain the last. Six companions who are One told Meanwhile, Herr Hess remain Sav.et-United States relations as patients were with him. In connection with this mis-
hospital where he has had | bebeved
the, the Daily Mirror" imminent with sage it can now be revealed that several interviews with a
· John found more happiness in repre-arrangement yesterday afternoon fless made an attempt to consentative of the British Fureign of a conterence between Mr. Cur-is fast days than he had ever municate with the Duke of Hand-Offee and
When he got better he did reports of these con- | doll Hull, Secretary of State, and had. ton by letter some months pre-versations have been referred to M. Oumansky, the Soviet Ambas- not wum to return to civilian life! viously.
Bri- sartor the appropriate authorit es The Duke immediately placed tish Wireless.
the letter in the hands of the British Security authorities and no reply was made to Hess.
The Duke had el Hoss ng one or two occasiotis bette the wa In connection with going mal- ter in which both were inter- ested
Hess, ileged to have said that when 1 uke was the Marques of Dongle and Clydesdale, knew him, well and that he had flown to Scotland and made lus! estate his objective as he bal valuable formation to give the Duke,
Tyranny In Reich
This information,
Hess saul would be of great tise to the Bu-
tish in overthrowing the tyrann
that now prevails in the Re...
Hess averred he made the snot
light from Germany.
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their first for over a year, ays Reuter from Washington.
He Held Up Weak Shelter
"I mention only one cl the cird defence services to-night, namely the polter, it is because many tributes have been pard already to the others. They have been in it ererchere all the
Mr. Churchill in his broadcast,
THI
TWENTY POLICE OFFICERS are among those honoured in the latest list of civil defence awards published in the "London Gazette.” Seven receive the George Medal and thirteen the Medal of the Order of the British Empire. There are thirty-six painstaking preparations for George Medallists in the list, two of them women.
Among the seven police George, were in danger of being gassed. Medallists are: ---
The two wonen George Medal- Police Constable William Henry lists are Miss Blck, an A.R.P, dis- of West Bromwich Allen, "G" Division, Metropolitan patch rider,
Miss Evelyn Gertrude devastation Police. Such
was and tribute to fless's cap caused by a bomb that the rescue Thomas, tatron of West Brom- District General Hos- abilities a plot that he should squad thought any people trapped | wich and arrive in Scotland and tand at « must be dead. Police-Constable pital, who told the "Daily Mirrot,“ point such close proximity to Alien was certain that he had "The medal should have been
staff. I shall ins objective.
to my heard a faint response to his shouts given and he started to clear away the 'shared' between ny nurses." debris above the basement of a
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This statement was borne out by maps he had used for navi gation. all of which
the Duke's estates were ringed in a circle. I W
Hardships In Germany
Hess is reported to have told the farm people of the hardship now being experienced in Ger- distress many and of the great amongst the people there over the bombing by the R.A.F. and the suffering of the civilian popu- lation.
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shop.
He crawled
and into a hole found, beneath the wreckage, two elderly men and two young girls pinioned by debris.
caved them.
He
Saved Eight People
He also said that he had
Sergeant Frederick Maurice message of great importance to Burgess, "J" Division, Metropoli-
be
Bomb Train Ablaze George Medals also go to Ivor Thomas Davies, engine driver, and Frank Reginald Newns, fireman, G.W.R. B.rkenhead.
When a large number of incen- diary bombs fell among a train- load of ammunition and trucks
In containing-petrol tins, they helped to put a stirrup pump or a deliver to the Duke of Hamilton. [ tan Police.--Reached and saved burning wagon containing aerial
-Reuter.
Nazi Version
፡፡
The newly authorised German version of Hess's intentions affords further circumstantial evidence that the escape was carefully pre- meditated.
eight people trapped in a base bombs. ment shelter and threatened by When the bombs were sufficient- water rushing from a broken ly cool, they levered them apart main.
and removed the incendiaries, m
William John Higgot, Leicester; A.R.P. warden.-He entered a
Part of the shelter threatened to collapse at any moment, and the cergeant had to support iti mass of ruins immediately after a with his shoulders. When he was bomb had exploded and came out pulled to safety, the basement with two children, one under each It is be remembered: that fell in
arm. He returned, put out a fire, Hess was leaving Germany under War Reserve Police Constable then put out two more fires {n} -very-extraordinary-circumstances Alfred John Volzey, "F" Division, other buildings.
and admittedly contrary to author Metropolitan Police, Smallest of Frederick James Skelton, "com-, ity. By so doing he was clearly three War Reserve policemen, he pany officer, London A.F.S.-He
he
was afraid
himself alone."
Miss Flurence Frickard was re- he would find ported to have been sentenced to
death on similar charges.
“I can tell
WHITE
HORSE blindfold
it's equal to a fine liqueur
running a grave personal peril, entered the only opening in the was badly burned trying to res- Sole Agents for South China 3 JARDINE MATHESON AND COMPANY LTD
It would therefore have been a debris of two demolished houses cue two trapped, Bremen when a perfectly understandable course which buried many people, who fire station was hit and set on fire,
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