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Dr. Sven Hedin, the Swedish explorar and a forvent admirer of Hitler, went to Berlin recently to warn the Fusher against co-operation with Russia. They talked freely and as an indication of Hitler's present state of mind the interview with Dr. Hedin, given below, is of somo imi. portance.
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(By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
STOCKHOLM.
"TITLER was quiet and calm when I spoke to him
on Monday," Dr. Hedin told me.
"His manner was most confident. I have known him for six years. Usually he moves his limbs and body He does not freely while conversing. He hates war. hate England and desires peace passionately."
I asked what had been discussed at the meeting. **I cannot reveal the details," Dr. Hedin replied, "but my feelings are that war will be terrible, resulting in the triumph of Bolshevism and an end of Western civilisation.
"Only one thing can save us Anglo-French co-operation, which is Hitler's dream. Such a move, in my pinion, would baulk Bolshevism's and create д westwards advance Tremendous and terrible power which would use nadi dictate peace upon the world."
Drive To The East
I asked if Hitler would join a Wharf and Godown Co. Ld., Kow-werful Western bloc strong enough loun, whence delivery may be obtain-to maintain peace and reorganise the ed immediately after lunding.
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1939,
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Nazi Propaganda
In Denmark
COPENHAGEN, Nov. 5 (Reuter).— The latest Nazi propaganda move in Denmark is the opening of a special advertising bureau under the patronage of the German Govern- ment.
they
Danish advertisers, after meeting in
discuss the matter, upprated to all concerned to refuse advertising from
the new bureau.
world.
"Germany," Dr. Hedin answered. "would undoubtedly do so."
"Does Germany retain her ambi- tions in the East." I asked.
These are not en substantial now," was the reply. The Russian fron- fier is agreed on finally."
These things. Dr. Hedin ndded, he and discussed with Itler.
German Reds
In The Open
Day after day since die war began, reports from neutral sources indi- cate growing unrest among the German people.
These have been given without com-
ment and the zources named.
of a Further detailed information
reaches similar nature now
Chixi office from a reliable neutral ob- servc-an acknowledged expert on German affairs-who has recently retumed from Germany,
F
identity must be kept secret. His story follows:
"Wald Hiller withdraw from Poland and Czecho-Slovakia?" The reply was: "There will be a zemi.THE Eno-German. pact, makes Independent Polish State, which Ger- many will protect; but she will not give up Czecho-Slovakin."
Hilter the junior partner to
Stalin in a new Axis A Boylet- } Nazi war has ended-in the defeat ofį Germany.
From what I saw in Germany Inj the last few days, it would seem that tle short of a miracle can prevent n Communist wave sweeping the country.
un-
"Threat" To Germany But if the Western Powers guaran- teed Germany against aggression by Czecho-Slovakia, what then? pressed, and this was the answer:
"Gerimany
occupted Czecha-
Conditions there already are Slovakia because it was an outpost of recognizable compared with a month. Bolshevism,
threatening Germany uga. In factories the old party group vitally."
leaders have already been, pushed filer, Dr. Hedin went on. Was aside and ex-Communist "converts" certain of Russia's counomic Co- of the Nazi Party have replaced them.
Brown Shirt Party badges are fast | eration. "I know the details." he said, "but disappearing among the Jeannot reveal them. I loathe the pro-classes; their wearers fear personal Greet of England being smashed in jacts of vengeance, for the nights are war which would multiply tenfold the very dark in Germany nowadays. 12,000,000 killed in the last war-ond
MOCKERY would be much quicker,
want
werking
They are afraid, too, of the mockery
mon during the Sudeten crisis inst
RACE
HE LOOKED THOUGHTFUL
CHURCHILL, JR. WINSTON First Lord of the Admiralty, on his way to a War Cabinet meet- ing in Downing-street.
The King and Queen boarding the yacht St. Katherine, at Tower Pier for their tour of the London Docks.
French Air Force Colonel Is Priest
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FROM the cathedrals, from the simple village churches, and from the great religious seminaries of France the priests have gone in hundreds to fight as soldiers.
The War Ministry lists of machine gun, he said: "In the for- Manila
a priest, I am n Sandokan men killed in action show that tress 1 am not
Ju the longJapan the soldier-priests are strongly soldier, but the commandant permis taiphong
me to hold services represented in the front line. Kallery, and the
corne when Saigon
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.Nov. 7.. "Some people say it is wrong for Shanghal.. in the affairs of mobilised the Parisian diocese, revealed a priest to light, but I believe that Air Mail by "Air France Direct Ser- vice"-Parle date, 1st Nov. Nov. 8. that more than 500 priests-one-a priest should face the same sorrows
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Among them are the Abbo Flerat, who is an Air Force colonel, three) majors, twelve captalas. 134 Heu- tenants, seven adjutants, ninety-) nine Bergennis, thirty-four corporals and 131 private soldiers.
The proportion of officers to soldiers
The speaks for itself. priests make good soldiers.
I met one of them in a fortress or the Maginot Line. He is twenty-five, tall, fresh-faced, fair-haired.
men
"Ilere in the army, as in the Church, I am among friends, who don't think it matters from what comes. I am proud class
min
to be a soldier." A few miles away, In the French front line, a group of German prisoners captured by French patrols were eating the evening meal with n French company.
A German sergeant sniffed the nir
He commands a machine and anti-as the meal began, and said: "I could tank gun section. Ilis men were on swear I smell coffee."
An interpreter said: "It is coffee." their toes. When he gave a com- Thic German answered quickly: mand there was just the right mix- "Oh! Then there is a general here." ture of snap and friendliness in his voice.
Polish Father While he showed me the beautiful mechanism of the twin-barrelled
German Air
Raid On
Failed
Convoy That
HERE is the first full story of the first Nazi air raid on a British convoy in the North Sea-the raid that failed.
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menu of a German front-line sol-Arnoy and Shanghai
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In the evening sausage, broad
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It looks just
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It is understood that the first task of the bureau will be to attempt to blackmail Danish papers by telling
"I might intervene, but interven- them that unless they were friendly to
tion would probably be too late to of their workmates. A common jibe the Reich and give publications of predominantly German
save from destruction the flower ofis. "If you are such an old nighter, blas,
would bu would not
the bureau's Europe's manhood. It receive
why are you not in Poland?" folleh to ght for Czecho-Slovakia's advertising.
The Gestapo is now powerless in Czecho-Slovakia is not worth many areas.
Rains have swollen the frontler Manilo Crake,
It is rapidly being dis- Four Nazi planes were brought the German turned and dived down
rivers until the terrain now separat-Shanghai and Japan
....1 p.. Danish creles do not expect the a shambles."
solved In all the working-class down and live Nazi airmen were flames.
Crow Jump
ing the French and German armies Haiphong Would Germany
.3.30 p.m. colonies districts. Acts of sabotage, so com-afterwards picked up in the sea.
Shanghal plan to succeed.
turned?" I queried.
They were picked up by trawlers, The pilot managed to land it and is a belt of morass. "Colonies are important, but Gernutumn, are now practically non-
The French withdrawal recently Air Mail for "Imperial Airways two members of the crew leaped out, was to some extent necessitated by
Direct Service"--due London, 15th November. many would not demand them or existent. The workers are redoubling and have been landed at Grimsby. deliver an illiina turn." Hedin their efforts where formerly they HOW THE CONVOY WAS AT Tavo other trawlers were nearer the astonishing muddiness of what.
"However, it Baid.
would be a were sulien, for, the new slogan 1,1ACKED IS TOLD BY ROBERT in we were. When we reached is now No Man's Land. It would enerous gesture if Britain offered to "Now we are fighting for a Com ATKINSON, MERCHANT SEAMAN the place one of the trawlers hot have been a tactical error to leave
picked two Germans from the water. torn colonies, the present division munist International."
TURNED GUNNER:
cations, supports and supplies hin- of which is unjust.
The trouble started in Poland when'
1 watched through the sights of They were clinging to the floats of outposts there with their communi
dered by the mud. off the east the machine, which soon sank. "Hitler," he went on, has made German troops, after losing 2,000 my gun in my steamer
Tremendous sucrifice. He har dead, were ordered to withdraw from coast on Saturday as eight German One of them was badly burned. struggled for peace and will struggle Przemsyi and Lemberg to give the bombers dived to attack the British We went on fishing, and at a quar-
flusalons a bloodless victory.
convoy of many vessels, says ater to seven on Sunday moming men Germans Don't Want War
jor watch saw three rockets about These troopɑ are now back in Ger-¡Homeside reporter.
They engaged a British plane that four miles away. "Practically no German wants war, many spreading the tale of how they
circled over the convoy. lor of Operations and Intelligence but all are prepared to defend their fought for Russla alone. and Deputy Chief of Air Star, Ale country if necessaryy.
understanding "Anglo-German Ministry, since 1937, has been pro-
on his wald mean an ordered world and mated Acting Air Marshal appointment as an additional mem- lower taxation everywhere." ber of the Air Council.
New Air Marshal Appointed
LONDON, Nov. 3 (Reuter).—Air Vice-Marina R. E. C. Peine, Dhree-
NEXT CHANGE
At The
KING'S
MURDER BY MAGIC!;
and Chan defios the supernatural at the play- ground on the Pacific!
CHARLIE CHAN at TREASURE ISLAND
SIDNEY TOLER
CESAR ROMERO PAULINE MOORE SEN: YUNG DOUGLAS FOWLEY JUNE GALE Douglas DUMBRILLE SALLY BLANE RILLIE SEWARD WALLY VERNON DONALD MacBRIDE ili À 10th Century-tex Perem
yet.
I asked my final question: "Ilave you discussed with Hitler your going
England or France?"
Dr. Hedin answered: "I discussed
WARNING
an be done for peace is welcome, completely lost.
They are convinced that it is
Shelling
leutenant)
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Ratification Of New Pact Decision By Turkey This Week ANKARA, Nov. 5 (Reuter)-A bill providing for the ratification of the Anglo-Franco-Turkish Pact was introduerd at the National Assembly to-day.
We steamed in the direction of the rockets, and found three Gefman air- boat. collapsible rubber men in a The middle classes are now looking
When it was seen that the British They were soaking wet and ex-| to Gvering as the lone pro-capitalist! left in power to save the country from plane had escaped and was clear, the hunted.
We took them aboard our trawler Bolshevism. They are warning him Cscorting warships started shelling. that unless he stops the war in six to Then British fighters appeared-and Kove them some of our clothes,
from nowhere and took food and hut drinks. eight weeks and makes a stand seemed this with Goering, who said: 'All that against Russla, Germany will be charge of the enemy. Within minutes: A twenty-six-year-old
the raiders made off eastwards.
and the other two; But it was I who raised the subject.
ane was in charge, About ninety minutes later
It is likely to be debated and voted came down until it were oged twenty-eight and thirty.
on November 8 when M. Sarsjoglu, "Hitler said: Neither do I hate Stalin's polley to prolong the war German plane
One had a wound in his lcg. France. No German hates France. until he is sure of the complete sur- was only 100 feet above the sea.
He told me that he was married the Foreign Minister, will review the This war is unnecessary and a mis- render by Germany to Communism, saw a bomb full into the sea not for
phases of the international situation. In view of the diplomatie petivity The lieutenant told the skipper between Turkey and Rumania, some France. If we fight it will endanger pose of Hitler and other inconvenient, bomb ad hurdly reached the sea be-munths old that day.
fore the warship's anti-aircraft guns
on an observation that they were The predominance of the white races, Nazi leaders at his pleasure,
blew the plane out of the skies.
circles consider that M. Sarajoglu's Warn the eight Nuzi, planes at-Right. tacked I got one beautifully clear in All night they had been afloat speech may disclose whether Turko- the sights of my un and waited the North Sen-about sixteen hours Soviet negotiations are to be resumed
in the near future. fur orders to fire, but the anti-nircraft altogether. crews in the warships did not need my help, though I was badly tempted.
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for Germany, Britain and when he would then be able to dls-1 from a warship and explode, Theland that his baby would be twelve/ Government's attitude to the latest Shanghai fid-China, Iran, and
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HOW THE FIVE NAZI AIRMEN WERE PICKED UP IS TOLD BY WILLIAM WEEDON. A TRIMIMER | IN A GRIMSBY. TRAWLER-
The trawler was ashing in the THE Lord Chamberlain has reopening on
Saturday North Sen on Saturday when we saw now licensed "Even Hitler week. There will be performances A had a Mother," the song which every evening at 9 o'clock, with two big German bomber coming over was fairly high up and there was no weekly matinees. His programme of from the direction of the coast. It
R. W. M. HUGHES, who was fond our M was banned when the Little productions starts with a revival of sign of any other plane.
Australia's Prime Minister plete." Theatre revue was originally The Playboy of the Western World."
Suddenly a British Oghter streaked during the last war, is back in Cabinet had decided that an initial Sandakan produced. It is now included— After that he Is presenting down from the clouds. There was a the newly-formed Common-volunteer force of 20,000 should be Shanghal sung by George Benson in Machiavelli's 400-year-old comedy, sharp burst of machine-gun fire and wealth War Cabinet announced raised Immediately. Defence expen-Strails and Calcutta.
Parcels Herbert Farjcon's Little Non-"Mandragola," a translation of which has recently been licensed by the Stop,
Judging by the size of audiences, Lord Chamberlain.
the show, which is the wittiest revue Other productions Include a new IL DUCE TALKS
TO HIS CHIEFS The company is Shakespeare and Plautus, In modern
organisation is more com-
Mr. Menzies announced that the
in Canberra. The Cabinet is: diture for the current year will be
Prime Minister and Treasurer: Mr. raised from Attorney-General and Industry: Mr. W. M. Hughes.
R. G. Menzies,
Supply and Development: Mr. R. G.
Casey.
£33,000,000 to £45,- Ord. 000,000.
Alrendy many thousands of volun- teers are offering their services and special recruiting centres are being Перелес,
Now Zealand
reen in London for years, will repeat "Comedy of Errors," based on Its pre-war success.
ructieally the same, and most of the dress a revival of Henry Becque's Items are retained. Some of them]The Parisienne" nnd performances ROME, Nov. 5 (Rouler).-Signor Defence: Brigadier G. A. Street. have been slightly shortened.
by the Rambert Ballet,
Mussolini had n long serlen of con- External Affates: Sir Henry Gullett,
Mr. Nash, the Finance Minister, The Anal number is now "Volin les
Wimbledon Theatre reopens onversations with his miftary leaders, Commerce: Senator G. McLeay.
said In Parliament that the whole of Non-Stop Nudes," Herbert Farjeon's Monday with "Banana Ridge."
*** The including Marshal Graziani, the new The Cabinet will have executive New Zealand's surplus products and brilliant skit on some of the grish management say that there is head of the Army Staff, Crown Prince powers to carry out war-time ad-resources are at Britain's disposal. -pectacles in other Beatres, which
"Negotiations regarding prices and was in his fiat Little Theatre revue. shelter for 1,000 people under the Umberto, and General Soddu, the ministration un daily needs require.
theatre.
Mr. Menzies, broadcasting, said: other details are now in pregress," Hermione Baddeley, Cyril Richard,
"Our preparations are immensurably Mr. Nepht added. more forward to-day than when we entered the war in 1914.
Erie Anderson, and the rest of the chat are to be corfgratulated on the urces of this amusing high-speed storm-dispeller.
Under-Secretary for War,
An upt revival for the time will
1 Duce confirmed the appointment be "All's Button," W. A. Darlington's of Mersin Badoglio ns Chief of the
using farce, which opens at the Gencial Staff, Theatre Royal, Birmingham, on Mon-
day with Hal Walters as Alf and Marshal Badoglio would normally Wallle Patch as Bill, The tour in-have reached reuring age, but is being cludes vialts to Glasgow. Edinburgh retained in the post in view of the
present situation."
MORE THEATRES REOPEN Ashley Dukes has ambitious plans for the Mercury Thontre, which he is and the Mois Empire Theatres...
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