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"DID RUDOLF

RUDOLF HESS PEACE PLAN OR NOT?"

Government Policy Towards Incident Criticised In House Of Commons

LONDON,

BRING A

SIR RONALD CAMPBELL IN ENGLAND

LONDON, June 20 (Router) The British Minister in Yugoslavia, who had sir Ronald Campbell, June 20 (Reuter)-"The complete and apparently

for been a prisoner in Italy

DVA directed silence in the Press and elsewhere about Hess"

weeks repacked on in the Blouse of Commons yesterday by the laboNE

arrived in England last member. Mr Samuel Silverman. #1 Lord

Beaverbrook

WAS

GENERAL

Considerable Curiosity As To Nazi Anxiety For

Pact With Turkish Govt.

ANKARA Jusse 20 (Router)—"We Turks will never go to Vienna" is a

statement beard on all hands following the signa- ture of the German-Turkish Pact. and Turks are anxious that It should be made clear that Turkey remains a friend also of Britain.

In view of the present geographical and military situation. with German troops near her frontier, the new agreement has obvious advantages for Turkey

she

Turkish policy is to remain non-belligerent aud she has no aggressive intentions against anybody. night, Reuter ears, Mr. Silverman coutenued that

hid landed by

On the nad taken a Spitfire and

Finally the agreement may lead other hand, He left Italy about a week ago

German- have made

been nervna lest Germany might to some parachute ai Berchtesgaden. the Germans would

expansion or Lisbon and arrived here via

1.0

Turkish trade, though it is unlike touch better use of the incident than we have made of the mess

gether with other British Consular, My to drive enst across Turkey.

ly that the harvest will permit the sensation

officials and certain officers of The new part removes this pos-

immediate future export of ceretds which the Der- sibility for the the British Counci

fold th

Bulted

He asked whether the incident was being used doubt and mystification in the minds of the German population or of our TAWOL. Mr. Silveranan asked the direct question Hess bring a

prace plan or not?" The als Asked what Mr Chune|| 111 M.

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cause

"Did

Mr Adams

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the

He fell into the bands of the and therefore, as it blocks one of mans need so badly Italans when Italian troops 00- East. It is held to be of value to

cupled Berzognovle, in

on April 19.

the

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those

beltever that

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Britain to say

"dan as fr We Geverunout and what was tani anstarraca.

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OPPOSITE VIEW

Lat

The Conservative member MI whole position was traught with Hengy strauss Look The Totany

statements

and opposite suppression

Mr Stokes

whatever statement of Say take about the Archibald Sincluz on May 22 that which Hess left

Halton the Duke

perhaps unire he luded t

Pip

INCORRECT STATEMENTS

Dalma

approaches to

Britain

The

Middle

OP

NAZI PROMISEN

It is, however, unlikely to move the suspicion with Germany had been viewed and the Turks know exactly what German promises and assurances

Te-

which

here

Considerabic curiosity exists a The American Evebassy in Rome

anxious worked hard in arranging with the to why Germany was s

safe to sign the pact under any condi. tallar Government for the passage to England of the British tions and some observers suggest mean.

that she wants in ussure that The agreement will be used by Minister and those with him

Turkey remain neutral in the Goebbels as a diplomatic triumph everit of a GermGE attack

to offset AXIS reverbes In the Russia.

United States. but that

Turkey STATEMENT IGNORED remains faithful to her alliance

The fact

Tass with Britain is seen in the clear that he istest

preamble agency statement

Soviet statement in UTI

been vir which the Turks insisted, refusing relations has

the ignored hy

German to sign If the clause was not in-

and radio ALU

persistent cludea, will shortly

VIEW BO

that fairly and rightly as a prisoner of argued assumption "you war with all the attendant

circumstances in eumstances. Germany, the ad I was nonsense to suggest that German

tually leaving Germany Hess is at Chequers

press

cir-

dvantages recognise Bess and had never met guessing are overwhelming *

Other conjectures as to the rea- hlru

Mr Strauss contended that the son for Hess coming here could be Government's ellener had led the left to the imagination of indivi- Germans Into a palpable lle and dual members and members were their imagina- Inte

contradictions, given full rein to whereby they had lost prestige i tion today. every country in the world

Nic

alt stokes eft.plns:sed that was making no imputation against the Lake at Hamilton and asked Duke shold not know why the Hess. But lu charged the

with making crnnent

Goy Incorrent

Mr

The Causervative member.

statemehi

Vyvan Adairs,

ernment Lu

fantastic

DUKE OF HAMILTON

Mr Butler said that he unable

to satisfy curiosity reasons of public interest.

was

for

rumours that Hter demand the return of BessaraÐIN

concessions.

the

"MUTUAL CONFIDENCE.

Un

(Reuter) -

20 LONDON, June Lo Rumania and large economic Mutual confidence" is the key- lend weight to this note of telegrams exchanged bc- suggestion, while the pact removes tween Fresident Inonu of Turkey

tne yet another explanation for

and Herr Hitler on the occasion presence of targe German troop of the conclusion of the German- concentrations

the Russian Turkish Treaty frontiers.

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of of Hamilton knew Hess or whether HEAVY BRITISH key

GOVERNMENT REPLY

The Government s

With reply Jude by the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Mr. R. A. Buller,, who declined to depart from the On the paint whether the Duke blamed the Canv allowing the Ger. Government's present policy

taken declared correspondence had mans to be first with the allega sence about Hess.

M: Butler sald that he or before. was no That that there

mystery tion that

confusion about Hess, who is a had nothing to add to Sir Archi- theory, he said, is still widely en-

01 Wi And 18 being bald Sinclair's statement of May tertained among the bewildered prisoner British public whereas Hess is no treated as such and will continue 22. inore mid than Judas Iscariot or to be so treated. Satan

Hess was mad.

He

Mr. Ellverman interposed to ask

place!

There was substantial point as

to why. If the American Govelar

ATTACK ON BREST

S

President Inonu's telegram, published here. sajo te #gree- ment "sets a seal to true And between Tur. sincere friendship

Germany" and

and says: "Our two countries and peoples on this day enter into an era of mutual confidence with the firm intent always to maintain it,"

HITLER'S REPLY

whether he was being treated as a ment was informed British public Large Fires Started as

civilian prisoner Dr Marshal.

H а

Field, opinton should not be

Better than shener would have been our ruthless use of this gift from Hell, but the Ministry Ol Information haa made nu more Mr Butler said that he was be- use of it than an oyster

ing treated as an officer--perfectly

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LONDON, June 20 (Reuter)

**

declares: Hitler, in reply.

certain that our two countries now enter upon an era of lasting mutual confidence."

Telegrams were also exchanged

as well There had been endless diplomatic exchanges between Britain and other countries Strong forces of British bombers between M. Sarajoglu and Herr throughout the war and it has on Wednesday night attacked ports Von Ribbentrop. been a source of sorrow that I am in not in position to divulge them to Parliament,

PUBLIC MORALE

north-west Germany and the naval base at Brest where the bat- tleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and a Hipper class cruiser are

berthed.

"Thr British public should

Despite variable and often cloudy share, a lui as pussble, the Inner weather the British aircrafı, reach thoughts of the Government, buted their objectives, says the Air in this case. we do not believe Ministry news service. that we have anything to which would make for an proved etter of the public. we do not believe that by saying anything we are ir any way upsetting public murale."

say Heavy bombs were seen to burst im-across the docks at Brest

and at! and Bremen large fires were started.

not

Dealing with points of general policy ra'sed in the debate. Mr. Butler declared that it

was the Government's desire to & Vold making idealistle statements about the future which may not be rea- lised. "We are in the middle of a tough job and are determined to see it through.

"Reference has been made the Cliveden Sot and the

to

STRANGE WEATHER

SWEDISH COMMMENT

STOCKHOLM, June 20 (Reuter) in Berlin, the conclusion of the German-Turkish Treaty la regard- ed as meaning Turkey's inclusion in the politles system of the Axia, says the Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm Tidningen.

With regard to the declaration in the Pact that earlier Turkish engagements are not affected, the correspondent says: "Political quarters in Berlin interpret this One pilot said: 'The weather as a meaning that if contrary to was strange, The North Sea was expectation the Von Papen pact hidden by haze and we could only comes into conflict with earlier Ittrestles, then naturally the most just detect the German coast, was queer to see anti-aircraft shells recent document will have pre- bursting above it as if coming ference." from nowhere.

"Despite all this obscurity, there were occasional gaps through which we could check

NATURAL INTEREST "Despite Turkey's natural in- terest in Syria" adds the corres-

our ap- proach to the river and the docks. Dondent, "it is stated here that it is wrong to suppose that the pact "At Bremen, one of our bombers

will affect military operations Holy was attacked four times by an there, these being affairs of the Roman Empire. They are both enemy fighter and before long a

French. Berlin does not think dead and may they so remain. burst drove it off, Tracer bullets

France will be. obliged to seex We want to build not only a new were seen enter the fighter which

German ald” set in this country but a new fell away obviously in trouble. Europe and that is a job we can "The British bomber returned pursue without making grandiose home without further interfer- | statements."

ence,"

WITHDRAWAL OF US. CONSULAR

"It is considered certath in Ber- lin," says the correspuenit, "that Turkey did not sign without con- sulting the Soviet.

"I the Soviet advised the Turks to sign, this is regarded as a good omen for a Russo-German settle- ment which is expected to even-

STAFFS DEMANDED BY GERMANY toate at the end of the present

LONDON, June 20 (Reater:-"Much incriminating evidence of offences on the part of American representatives” is conta'n- ed in the German note to the United States demanding the withdrawal of American Consular staffs from Germany and Ger- man ocupied territory, says the official German news agency (ast night.

It says the German Foreign Offloe has "a mass of material on Intrigues Injurious to the State and has prohibited the news service of the American Consulaten.”

week."

MALTA RAIDERS ARE INTERCEPTED

CAIRO, June 20 (Reuter)-Enemy. aircraft approached Malta on Wed- nesday on two occasions, but owing to interception by British

The German nows agency men- It mentions charges of espionage, fighters, raids did not materialise. tione a number of American Con-Jon German troop movements In Instead, one Italian Aghter、 was aular officials by name,

Norway and anti-German pro shot down and two others were "Thus," it states, "the Consul paganda by a former employee of badly damaged. General in Cologne. Mr. Alfred H. the American Consulate in Oslo, Kliefoth, in the autumn of 1939 Ivan Jacobsen.

and in the spring of 1940 carried Mr. Redeckep, Consul at Frank- out espionage against Germany by fort-on-Main, is accused of having

From all Middle East operations, four British aircraft are missing.

using, in conjunction with the "delivered copies of anti-German ABYSSINIA POSITION Belgian Consul-General in Cologne, propaganda, and passed on in- CAIRO.

June 20 (Reuter-

a code for reports on the German, formation for military matters In Abyssinin, while patriot forces march into Belgium, Holland and which were of a secrét nature."

· Luxemburg."

The Vico-Consul in Hamburg, |

are steadily increasing pressure Consul-Getteral Ostend Nielson on the Italian garrison in the Mr. Ralph Getbinger, is accused of and Consul Roy Ebower at Munich, Gondar district, British troupe "carrying out espionage in the January, 1840. showed their are continuing their advance spring of 1941 against Germany by an German feelings by making Dobra Tabor. making sketches of the railway detrimental remarks on Germany In the "southern Kreas.

| system and military installations

near Hamburg.”

and the derman Governments in the hearing of German persona.**

Acrily.

SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1941.

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