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"It has been reported that you left your post yesterday afternoon without permission and went to the Motor Show,"
THE GENERAL KNOWS
On this page yesterday Charles Foley told how Eugen Doll- mani, an SS general who plotted for the Nazis in Rome, masqueraded as an Italian to fly from his hideout in Madrid to his native Germany on a accret mission.
Dolinant is now in pool in Frankfort for illegal entry in- to Germany. Now read the second half of this true story of international intrigue,
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HAVE received a vital clue to the roa- for General Doll- "mann's masquerade →→ .he had to act at once Or
never.
I was told on the tele- phone from Madrid that Germany's first postwar ambassador, Prince Adal- bert of Bavaria, was due to arrive in Spain last Friday. And since General Doll- mann knew his old friend Adalbert would immediately furnish him with proper papers for his flight to Ger. many, he had only to wait
What's Inside
London Express Service
Sitting On The Fence
A
by Nathaniel Gubbins
Ta general meeting of these cosy lttle homes, our germs the chairman young pioneers, scorning securi ty, found fresh lands to con said: "Gentlemen, we quer in the human body, where are gathered here today to courage and enterprise discuss housing and the justly rewarded, position of germs' as dis-
cheers).
(Loud
placed persons caused by "The position now, gentio the callous, methods of men, is that, with jone of our modern hygiene." (Cries of and so many gerut
·chlet breeding grounds detected Heatroyers discovered, we face extinction in the near future. Will Mr Fla oblige with some of his ex- periences?"
"Hear, hear").
"I have before me a book by a doctor which proposes to turn us out of our last household refugo the dish cloth." (Cries of "Shamo!")
.
"My family was reared in a dirty dishcloth in a little house in Brixton, 8.W" said Me Fi "The kitchen was full of cracks
and plates. In the "For many years," the chair- cd cups man went an, "we have lived cracks we lived very happlly + to infect In dirty dishcloths. From there until we were ready the more ambitious among
the family, which we did, at transferred ourselves to the legst twice a year."' (Cheers). cracks in plates and teacups.
"Though many of us were
famics
content
The name is Dollmann-but that was not the name on the passport he had with him when he flew back to Germany -and arrest.' 'Why did he return? Whatwashismission?. This exclusive gives the
to roar
answer to one of the great post-war riddles,
THE HITLER TREASURE CRATES
by CHARLES FOLEY,
who, met Dollmann in. Madrid
a few more days in Madrid his personal seal, tame 20 pack- These Russian archives
to be able to set out with complete security.
ing cases
Dollmann told me
available to stop. the falling into Russlan handa.
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in
papers was plainly no legal means. of
carrying out the operation.
Dollmann was in Spain as a Stateless refugee....He hatf been expelled from Switzerland because of Communist
Buro.
pres
Dollmann determined.
"We even infected visitors dropping in for a cup of tea. They dropped into bed soon after." (Loud laughter anti cries of "Good old Flu.")
"Then the family washed tho dishcloth and threw away the cracked chinaware. For War, it was like atomic warfare. I was the only survivor." (Muru murs of sympathy).
"Mr Cold," said the. man, "will you oblige?"
chale.
"My case," said Mr Cold, "is chiefly against the unfair 150 of germiciden. Although my cracked family came from a mik jug, I lived very happily in an old man's noso for many years. Then a doctor gave him a new nasal douche, and I wda [homeless." (Cries of "Shame!?)
"In my vlow," cried Mr. Cold, "the present situation is intolerable, (Hear, hear.)\"A was downcast but | germ) has got to Live some-
where."
(Loud choers and | laughter).
"Either I will Succeed," he told me, "or I shall fall. In "Therefore I ask this meeting the latter case you can write to pass a resolution deploring Even It he reached his what has happencil so that my our housing shortage, do. frlends at Innsbruck un friends will know that I haveliberately caused, and to give observed it would be dimcult tried.".
notice to all concerned that we and dangerous to spirit
will go forward with courage It seems that Dollmann final and the slogan, four packing cases under
"An English noses of the French occupying ly, secured help in his mission gorm's home is its castle.
Italians ar from Italy. Two authorities, Government and a vigilant, month, and one of them the
rived in Madrid together stop-at-nothing-Russian secret vanishing Signor Rocchi new with him to Frankfort.
police.
the
away
the
Austrian
He told me: "I should like to organise a German expedition 10 safeguard the papera and also to recover the treasure in due time. But I cannot sco: a
;
To Frankfort
1
this
Dog has its day
Ma K and his dog, Rover,
hall come back late for Sunday lunch, When the| spoll= ed meal had been cleared away his X. said to
way of doing that at present." WHOEVER found and secreted and Mr X was asleep in Dre
10
Au-
To the rescue
THE problem oppressed Doll mann. He is a man of diplo macy who shrinks from Uirect action.
armchair,
Rover:
Mrs
Dollmann's Swiss expulsion certainly among the papers sent from Berlin in the four cases.
notice in his luggage in Madrid also denounced him to the Ger- other With the
vital papers
"Had a nico walk, Royer? there they could-so Gauleiter
man Customs at Frankfort. This You must have gone a long double-cross bears tho "I opened two of the cases in Hofer told me — be used Instead, Dollmann rushed his
ball way in two hours," fences, travelled with a false the presence of two NCOs, make or break Governments in
mark of high craftsmanship. Italian passport brought to him They were stuffed with Reichs--several countries.
It is my belief that the Rus treasure gold specially from Rome, and ended chancellery
with Some months ago Dollmann
slans had shadowed Dollmann up in the bands of the German cigarette cases engraved
watches found ihat the
since the Soviet autograph;
they that Hitler's
war because police. So it is plain
the necklaces thorities were already on
"And yet, the events convinced him his mis- bearing his cypher;
papers must know that he know where the Western trail of these four cases. He be recovered. They must also Hitler papers were. of diamonds and pearls. sion could not wait.
had letters from friends in be handled with honour and secret agents may have follow- Discovery and exposure
"In one of the two coses I Austria. They told fol-
the discretion," he insisted. "For ed Dollmann too, but only the lowed-doubly... agonising for opened there was, in addition, Russians there had. won over instance, letters from pean Russians could gain by tripping.
European one of Dellmann's nature. Doll- the priceless, original manu- some of his most loyal SS fol- statesmen must be returned to him into the arms of the Ger
him 'Mein Kampf," with lowers men who were in them intact. Any to work in the script of
document man police and getting mann loved shadows, to be the go-between, corrections in Adolf Hitler's touch with others who know. which might compromise any locked up for 80 days. *.
Ilying German must be destroy- to let power flow to him seem- writing.....That night the 20 where the cases lle.
Alas, poor Dollmann. Today in treasure cases were buried
ed. Will you agree to help?"" ingly unsought..
perhaps, there is laughter in In this criais Dollmann turn-
the Kremlin, and
"I Houbtless ed to his old friend and leader
Dellmann said I should bo Marshal Kesselring. Kesselring, free to publish all papers with pace is being reserved in the heard of the place?"
Soviet archives for four new on parole from a British wor these exceptions. Regretfully, cases full of Hitler's secrets, crimes gaol in Germany, said I dismissed visions of a trea- Dollmann should use any means sure hunt atop the Alps-there (WORLD, COPYRIGHT)
To a king
IN
the Alps,"
Dollmarn fold me he wae
corbernad *bout trea sure that 'could wait,
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TN Madrid this year, a refuges, "More important is the safe- he yet lived under the pro- ty of four additional cases tection of the Popal Nuncio, which Hitler sent on to his old because in wartime Rome Doll friend the Austrian gaulelter mann had shown the Christian, Hofer, in Innsbruck. They cou scholarly face of Germany to tained ultra-secret State-papers. the Vatican. Who had per- My fear is that these will” fall sunded Hitler to, spare the Holy into Russian hande, The con- City? Why, General Dollmann. sequences....
In exile, he was often seen with ex-King Umberto of Italy.-
natural? At the What more
royal court in Rome, General Delimann had always shown
spectful of legitimists.
•
To Stalin
him
Getting
Ready For June 2
【ORE details of the plans was delivered, earlier this
tion robe.
The Lullingstone
"Were we out two hours?” "Did you stop anywhere!
"I always stop at places of Interest, or to exchange a complimentary only", with ' friend." "Did you anywhere for
"I think I found a ̈ pond somewhere."
not
talking dt. ponds, Rover. We are talking of the Barley Mow."
"Oh, are we?"
a drink,
are
suppose you've never
"No, I don't think I have.” "Did you and Mr X go into the Barley Mow before. Dep after the walk?"
"After, I think.". "You said just now you had
heard silk-never
of the Harley now Maw."
"Well, I thought you might
tion on June 2 next year, who made the velvet for 4,000,000-produced the silk be annoyed with Mr X." have been made known. King George VI's Corona for the robes for the 1987 "I understand, Rover. Would Coronation and for the pre-it bo right to say that you and Her Majesty has approved A director of the firm sent Queen's wedding dress. Mr X never went further than himself the most deeply A this point Dollmann's disa special Coronation hall-
taste for speculation would mark (illustrated here) to honoured with every royal thrown" prepared for
Build: "We have been
the Barley Mow?" . The allk has already been I went a little further. I bring him to a pause, "I did
met a dog I know. Miko He was all things to all men; not myself. seo those Hitler commemorate her Corona-
"And Mr X met a weaving-in the Glemsford knows? In the saloon bar?m to Hitler and Mussolini, no to papers, Gauleiter Hofer, who tion. It is a model of her the traditional leaders, a qup- went through them beforehead by 64-year old sculptor,
Silk Mills in Suffolk, ple and intelligent Instrument burying the cases up in' the of policy. Thus it was that mountains, told me at the time Mr George Henry Paulin, a Dollmann, became the link be "In those four cases is material Scot who lives in St John's tween the German political and which would be of the utmost Wood, London. military arms in wartime Italy interest to Mr Churchill and to -between Field Marshal Kes the Sovieta"," selring and SS Police Fuchrer
General Wollt.
Tho Inside, story of the Soviet-Nazi honeymoon ond And when the end was near what Stalin offered to stave off
The cast was made mostly from photographs, with one short sitting by the Queen to enable Mr Paulin to put
it was Dollmann who crossed Hitler's invasion would certain in the finishing touches.
into Switzerland to initiate the surrender of the million-strong
Jy be there..
parleys, Dollmann told me, that he crossed the Austrian frontier otra,
1.
Ger-
In the United Kingdom, purchase tax is abolished on floga, crowNA, pictures, photographs and many. articles now being · mass- produced for the Coronation.
This will mean the saving of many shillings to the private householder, and thousands of pounds to planning public bodles Coronation, celebrations.
Purchase tax on these
goods would have ranged
"He met dozens of men he
He's so terribly popu=" They all worship némi as
far
1_do "Do they?"
"And he's so wilty. They roar at his funny stories. Such a wonderful mimic. And such perfect timing." "Co 'on,
And so he wenerosity,
You'd be amazed at his
I would,
ཡ་
paying,
Rovers.
altoays seemed to be with everybody wolabi ing him good health. I wa proud to be with him, * He even told the pretty girl de hind the bar
to keep
“Did ho?" "Well, thanku
change
from 66 percent to 100 per- the Information, Rover When
The Queen's head, crown- Axis troops in Italy, Beyond Said: Dollmann: "I happened ed, may be struck on gold or that, he was charged, in those to be attending a conference silverware by any assay days with the secret which ho between Huer, Clang,
and office until December 31, order for Coronation robes carrie for seven years, and other Italians in 1939.
Hitler 1958.
Bince King Edward VII. which has finally 'brought about was called out to the telephone. his downfall.
On an urgent signal we
Wares bearing theThe weaving work will It was during the Swiss penco was wildly excited.
mans followed him. Hitler Coronation mark may not take at least three months be sold in the British Isles at our factory in Braintree, to see. General Woll and the "Stalin wants to see Ribbon before next January 1. But Essex en story of his "sacred trust there trop at once, he cried. We are specimens may be distri. Miss Lily Lee will band The Germans and going to have a pact with Rus-buted for publicity pur weave the velvet. It is a Japanese will not be able to Pandan hislar This is the most important poses, and can be sent tremendously delicate job. dump Coronation goods, as Wolf headquarters were at day, in Gorgany's history}_{\ abroad for sale before that The raw silk for the robe the Board of Trade has Bolzand. It was early Apr 3 D 1945 perhaps three wooks That evening Hitler told us; date.
has been produced" on the issued an order prohibiting before Germany collapsed. "From now on all documents The order to make the silk form of Zoe, Lady Hart, the, import, of Coronation
›dooling? with German-Rusztán jed And then
Hitler relations will be put a fato royal purple velvet for the Dyke, at Lullingstone emblema and souvenirs from
all non-Empire. countries Rolcha-chancellery, and bearing separato, most secret, archives, Queen's Coronation robe, Castle, Kent.
begins.
froin
cent...
M} X walces up 1 cân nak him how he can afford to bea generous, particularly, to pratty
girls
Oh, please don't do that. Desider, who's not prettier than you Realty, sho lan's, You're lovely," ten very kind with your dinner. ***
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