1941-05-14 — Page 4

IRAQI USURPER

PAGE 4-HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

RUDOLF HESS CRASHES IN SCOTLAND IN FLIGHT FROM REICH Plane Fuelled For One-Way Trip Only: Nazi Statement Alleges "Mental Disorder"

LONDON, May 13 (Reuter)-Leaving behind a farewell note. Rudolf Hess has fled from Germany and is now in Scotland. He crashed from a German fighter which significantly did not have 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 Ber lin bad 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 plans.

Hess, who broke his ankle when "Accordingly," an official of the

CRITICISED

GENERAL

REPORTED NAZI PRESSURE ON VICHY FOR THE USE OF PAU-SARAGOSSA RAILWAY

No Reply To Egyptian quate to carry troops in large numbers,

Offer Of Mediation

LONDON, May 13 (Reuter)-The Germans are reported to be Dressing the Vichy Government for permission to use the Pau- Saragossa Railway to convey German troops to Spain, because the Bordeaux-St. Sebastian line in occupied territory is inade- says an Independent French Agency correspondent on the French frontier There are no indications that the Germans. Intend the frame-

CAIRO,

May 13

(Reuter)

Moscow radio on Sunday night

ing to Ankara reports,

Vichy agrees. but they have made

diate use of the Pau line even if NAVAL SHELLING.

OF BENGHAZI

sharply criticised the attitude of Raschid All the usurper, accord- the request apparently to convince the Vichy Government that Gen- eral Franco has assented to the Passage of German troops through Spain.

In a broadcast for Rumania, the announcer is said to have describ- ed them as Instruments of foreign Powers.

It is understood that no reply

Ras-

he landed, brought photographs of Foreign Office, who was closely has yet been received from himself at different ages to estab facquainted with Hess before the chid All to Egypt's offer to mediate lish his identity and he has been war, has been sent up by aeroplane in the dispute with Britain, recognised by several people who to see him in hospital" knew him well

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A Foreign Office official bas flown to Glasgow to see him hospital

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FLIGHT TO SPAIN

Last month Hess was reported to have flown to Spain with a messag for General Franco

Marshal Petain so far does, not seem to have consented,

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Shipping & Military Objectives Damaged

"NEW DECREES- '

LONDON, May 13 (Reuter) * ---- MADRID. May 18 (Reuter-During Saturday night, powerful Following his recent far-reaching units of British light forces carried General out an intense bombardment of administrative changes, Com-

the Franco yesterday issued a number Benghazi from point-blank range,

of decrees, making changes in states an Admiralty communique. high Army posts.

Damage was caused to shipping! These include the appointment and military objectives.

General Ascencio Cabanillas,

The Middle East R.AF. munique states that in Iraq. situation has become stabilised." ·

UNSUCCESSFUL QUISLING

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ships,

·R.A.F.' ACTIVITY

The Berlin and Bari radio of

Fire from the shore batteries Mr. A. Duff-Cooper. Minister of Later an official dental that hestations which, during the past hitherto High Commissioner to

was ineffective as were also re- Information, was present at the

week, had devoted their six dally Spanish Morocco, to be Chief of was actually visiting Spain was

peated attacks by enemy, dive- Ministry when this remarkable an-issued but it did not say that be transmissions in Arabic almost en- Staff.

bombers nouncement was read to represen-bad not been there.

tirely to the Iraqi rebellion.. last) A new C-in-C of the Balearic

No casualties or damage were tatives of the world's press in a Twelve days ago, Hess was at the Sunday night abruptly ceased all Islands is also appointed, Generel sustained by any of the British tense atmosphere.

Nazi Brown House in Munich re. references to the Iraqi usurper. Gonzalez replacing General Kirde- ceiving Admiral Salvador Merino, Raschid Ali and confined them- Jan, who takes command of the the Spanish Minister of Marine, selves mainly to the reading, of Fourth Region of Spain.

General Miguel Ponte, hitherto CAIRO, May 13 (Reuter)-Heavy and leader of the Spanish Falana. the rebel communique.

Benghazi, where ships! ist syndicate.

Well-informed persons here ex- General Commanding the Army in raids on

three large press the opinion that Hitler can-Morocco, is made a Captain-Geh-were attacked and

fres started on the mole, were not tolerate an unsuccessful eral

made on Sunday, states a British Quisling.

| R.A.F. Middle East communique,

At Bentna three German απα one other plane were set on tre while at Berka direct obtained on buildings. north-west of the landing ground.

The earlier German All-

· nouncement Was obviously breaking the news to Germans that Hitler's "shadow" and suc- cessor-designate after Goering had 'disappeared. .`

NAZI VERSION Rudolf Hess, Hitler's Deputy, nas] The Berlin statement said that met with sudden death in my Hitler had ordered the arrest of sterious circumstances" while on an Hess adjutants for not preventing aeroplane flight from Augsburg, or reporting his flight, and there Bavaria, from where he took off on are several attempts to

suggest May 10.

that Hess is suffering from mentai disorder.

with Marshal Petain -

ENVOY'S MOVEMENTS "PERNICIOUS RUMOURS" LONDON, May 13 (Reuter-The Emir Abdullah of Trans-Jordan French Ambassador in Madrid. M. has personally denied "pernicious Pietri, returned to Spain yesterday rumours" that he was shot by his from. Vichy, where he had a talk An official announcement by the son during a quarrel over Iraq, |National Socialist Party Issued by

The Emir is in excellent health. the German news agency yester-. The rumours are ascribed In The following statement was 18-day suggests that Hess was suffer- Trans-Jordan

circles to hostile sued from No. 10 Downing Street ing from "mental

disorder" ania propagandists. at 11 p.m. last night;

says that he either fumped out "Rudolf Hess, the Deputy Fuenre of the plane or met with an acel-" of Germany and a Party Leader of

dent,"

BRITISH STATEMENT

the National Socialists has landed It adds that Hitler has ordered in Scotland us the following cir cumstances

"On the night of Saturday, May 10, he left Augsbure, Bavaria, in

the arrest of the dead man's`at- Jutants

NAZI NO. 1

The 45-year-old Hess was

was to

an aeroplane for an unknown des-Nazi No. 3.". He

the

BRITISH SUCCESSES

* IN ABYSSINIA

NAIROBI, May 15 (Reuter- Despite bad weather, British forces Abys- In the southern sector of

their suc- follow sinta are following up

cesses while strong pressure 13

by being maintained

columns operating south of Addis Ababa.

The enemy's morale, according

tination and landed by parachute Marshal Goering, as successor in Scotland. sustaizing a broken.

Hitler in the event of their deathà ankle, necessitating hospital treat- ment

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The official announcement of

the National Socialist Party broad-

Nine Raiders Downed On Sunday

METROPOLIS GETS MIDNIGHT ALERT

LONDON, May 13. (Reuter) "it is now known that on Sunday night's attack on this country, a

"When he was taken, no gave his cast by the German news agones to reports received here, is being total of nine enemy aircraft were

name as Horn out later on he de

clared that he was Rudolf Hess.

BROUGHT PHOTOGRAPHS

states

"The Party member, Rudolf Hess

shaken by ground strafing by the South African Air Force and the

who, owing to his suffering from attacks of various patriot armies "He brought with him various an illness of many years standing directed against the Italian fank!

photographs of himself at different was

trictly forbidden by the. ages, apparently in order to estab- Fuehrer to embark upon any fur- lish identity. These photographs ther Hying activity, recently were deemed to be photographs of lable, while contrary to orders, to Hess by several people who knew get possession of an aeroplane. him personally.

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Was NELSON T. JOHNSON CHUNGKING, May 13. (Central) "On Saturday, May 10, at about-Mr. Nelson T. Johnson, the out- 6 p.m., Rudolf Hess set of ch a going American Ambassador to ight from Augsburg from which China, bade farewell to Mr. Lin he has not returned

up, to the Ben, Chairman of the National present time.

Government. Dr. Wang Chung-bul Minister of Foreign Affairs, and

MENTAL DISORDER

destroyed," says last night's Air. Ministry communique.

It adds: "There has beer. very little enemy activity over Britain during daylight today. Early this morning, hombs. were dropped at. a point on the southeast coast. doing little damage and causing

np casualties."

Enemy bombers last night were reported to be over widely-separat- ed districts in Britain, and some bombs were dropped, but it ap

big scale! peared unlikely that à attack would develop on any area.

The "All-Clear" was scunded Inf

Dr. H. H. Kung. Vice-President of London in the early morning.

A letter which Hess left behind the Executive Yuan, yesterday. shows by the distractedness traces In the evening he had supper with!

MIDNIGHT ALERT

af mental disorder and it is feared Chairman Lin at the latter's villa Before midnight an alert was that Hess was a victim of hallu in the Chungking suburbs. He will sounded in the London area, but bid farewell to Generalissimo for some time afterwards no "The Fuehrer at once ordered Chiang Kai-shek today.

¡cination.

the arreat of the adjutants of the

Party member Hess, who alone have any knowledge of these fights

raiders were heard overhead.

and who, contrary to the Fuehrer's PARLIAMENT WILL CARRY ON IN

orders, of which they were fully

aware, did not prevent or falled REPLICA OF WRECKED CHAMBER

to report these fights.

"In these circumstances must be considered that Party member Hess has either jumped out of his plane or met with an accident."""

ARGENTINA SIDES

WITH BRITAIN

BUENOS AIRES, May 13 (Reu- ter)-"We want no regimes that

LONDON, May 13 (Reuter)—The extensive damage done to the House of Commons will maką necessary the use of the re- plica of that Chamber which has existed elsewhere for some time past and which has actually been used on a number of occasions for full meetings of the House of Commons, writes Beuter's Far- liamentary correspondent

The reserve cuamper is smaller than the original House of Commons The Speaker's chair, green benches and "gangways familiar to visitors are reproduced in form, though the familiar green leather is replaced by green cloth.

are against liberty, human dignity of the chamber from that to which famous Coronation Stone had pecs and Christ," declared Dr. B. E. Alvear, former President of the they are accustomed, sharing the removed some time ago to places Argentine Republic and leader of avallable space with diplomats who for safety. the Liberals, addressing the Radi- formerly had their own very exclu- cal Party Convention celebrations sive gallery.

The Press, sit at the opposite end priceless parchments and also the

of the 137th anniversary of the it is not, therefore in any hasty Argentine Assembly's, adoption of for improvised fashion that the des the song "Liberty" as the national truction of the old Commons will anthem.

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Yesterday, when workmen were busy putting a temporary over the hole in the roof, is the anniversary of the coronation Where" the King and Queen sat ́ in coronation robes beneath the all- Denouncing Argentinians who Another ita is ready and com- tern-which is now open to the "now clamour for neutrailty," Dr. plete in every detail and is well skyds a heap of rubble and broken. Alvear said that there were some tested in debates, which have taken wood. people who some time ago thought place there.

way.

be met.

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These seats which were then ce- that they could make trouble, over There is a similar reproduction cupted by peers and peeresses, and- the Falkland Islands, but that of the House of Lords in, existence high officers of state in their question would never ruffle Anglo- (which has also met already in its colourful robes and uniforms are Argentine relations and some daynew surroundings.

thick with dust which has covered would be settled in the friendliest.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY everything. Surrounded by ruins. Westmins- The scene today is indeed a stare ter Abbey today is structurally in contrast with that day four years BOUTH ANEWEL, May 13 (Cen- tact. tral-The Japanese driving south- An examination shows that the

MAYORS KILLED ward from Tikang on the south roof is not irretrievably damage Two mayors have been killed in bank of the Yangtze River," above and the organi, one of the finest in raids on London, the MavoT." ~* Wuhu, have been completely re-the country, is undamaged.

Westminster on Saturday night pulsed by the Chinese. They Four of the ancient stong arches while visiting a smelter which re- Sold at all Compradores & Chemists slaughtered many civilians and of the Little Cloister have been celved a direct hit, and the Mayor Sole Agents BAKKER & Co., Ltd. burned down a lot of houses in damaged by fire

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