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February 15, 1940.

Heart Trouble

German Arms King, Exiled By Hitler, Caused by High

Reveals Tragic Secret of His Life

FRITZ THYSSEN GAVE GOLD TO FUEHRER TO AVENGE DEATH OF PRINCESS KILLED BY

BY REDS

LOCARNO.

WHEN FRITZ THYSSEN, "the man who made Hitler," fled to Switzerland he left behind in Germany his coal-mines, his armaments factories, and his millions.

He also left behind a passion which changed the history of the world-his revenge.

Thyssen had made Hitler, and he had made himself Hitler's master.

He had seen in Hitler the neurotic, penniless agitator, a man who could put Germany on her feet--and a man who could put Germany on her feet would put| Thyssen on his feet.

A strong Germany would nced armaments. A united, powerful and threatening Ger- many would light up Thyssen's blast furnaces, buy Thyssen's coal, set his factories working day and night to pour out arms and money into Thyssen's pockets.

Way

It is doubtful whether Hitler himself has ever. guessed the real reason why Thyssen was eager to dominate Germany.

Naturally, he

astute enough to see that Thyssen, as head of the German Arma- ments Trust, lived and worked for the day when Germany would be a great military machine, with himself at the throttle, and Hitler obeying him. And the reason why Thyssen fled from Germany, is just as clear. He When the first Great War broke saw Hitler lending the country into out it seemed that they would be

Why Do You

Hate Russia?

FRITZ

THYSSEN

But there was more than that night of the Russian aristocrats.

it. Love of money and power alone

is not enough to li ail a man's 'Go To Paris' He.

thoughts and aspirations, Lo keep

him

"YOU, I think," Bald the leader of the men. He put out his hand, threw back her cloak, and snatched from her breast the Jewelled cruellix thai she were on a gold chain. "Yes" he said, "You are the one I

want."

"Very well," she said, and to her maid she added, "You may go home." The maid hesitated. "Clear off."" Isaid the fender of the Soviet troop.)

"We don't want you." She went.

That was the last news Thyssen ever had of the Princess Nadya, except, months later the three words, "She is dead." This time he had to believe them.

Thyssen anished his story. The glasses were empty on the table, and; the sun was setting. The cool even- ing breeze wiu sweeping away the warmth of the afternoon.

"My hatred for iose Soviet murderers wil live forever," he told Hitler.

Now Thyssen sits alone in the gur- den of the Locarno vilin.

News of the outijde world only re- minds him of the wreck of his hopes

und

own

a war that would certainly be dis-separated for ever. Germany and and ambitions and his present help- astrous for Germany and for Thyssen Russia were entinies, and Thyssen's lessness. And when he reads to-day himself.

factories were turning out the guns of Russian guns

acroplanes and munitions with which the Ger-fighting in distant Finland, his mind years to that mun and Austrian armies strove to goes back twenty blast their way through Poland.

tragedy that was played to its end in those dark forests of the North. Then came the revolution and the Now it is possible that Fritz Thyssen, even if the Princers Nadya had never come Into his life, might| have conceived his gigantic plan for the domination of Germany by the| on one ambitious road for Implored Her

armamenta group that he controlled. twenty years.

But seldom in history has there What set Thyssen on that road?

Princess Nadya's father was killed, appeared a man who lusted for Why did he went to make himself and soldiers and peasants, crazed by wealth and

their power for The answer vodka, danced the mad dance of red sake. There has had to be a driving master of Germany? Isa woman. Or rather, the mem-revolution in the burning ruins of force, and a spark to set it off, and ory of a woman who has long been her home, strove frantically to get nine times out of ten there has been dead.

To-day Thyssen, b grey-haled in touch with her, but falled man. of sixty-five, sits alone behind Months passed willout news, and the high walls of his brother's villa then his spies brought word that she here in Locarno.

was dead. It was not many years ago when It was not true. But it was then he sat laughing and

Thyssen began to hate Bussio. talking with that Hitler one summer afternoon at the He swore he would be revenged, Dictator's retreat it Berchtesgaden. One day near the end of 1918, It was one of those rare oren- when the Great War was over, he alous when Hitler relaxes.

received a small, unstomped enve- They talked about the past, about women lope from an agent in Stockholm. Thyssen fell strangely silent. When he saw that it was addressed Suddenly the conversation changed. in the Princess's handwriting his Back again,, as it invariably must heart leaped.

+

Thyssen

n woman. The Princess Nadya was the woman in Thyssen's life.

His world's greatest who had stood

real aim for Germany, as the machine, was victory over all his way.

And enemy No. 1 was Russia, which had dealt him the most grievous binw-he had ever suffered,

BELIEVING THAT HITLER MEANT EVERY WORD HE SAID. TITYSSEN PROMUSED HITLER IHS WHOLE FOR- TUNE,

His Cloc

Was Short-Lived

Hitler, through Thyssen's schem- the old

that

were woging against ther

الم

FEEDING A MODERN WAR GIANT—A gunger attached to a Ministry

of Supply experimental establishment in England placing part of a charge into the gaping breech of a great gun.

Chinese Will Outstrip Japan

As A Nation

WASHINGTON-Dr. Hu Shih, Ambassador from China, is, both a scholar and a diplomat.

How About Asia?

At the American Historical Association meeting here, he stepped out of his diplomatic role to tell fellow scholars why he believes China will become a successful modern nation before Japan.

achieved by a slow, voluntary Westernisation of China,

In the event of recognition of a infusion of democratic ideas, the Ambassador held, is on a more asked, would the United States be state of war in Eastern Asia, he permanent basis than Japan's as ready to abdicate its rights there apparent rapid transformation us it has been in the European con- forced on the people by the war-troversy? lords at the top.

A "Jaise, historical vision" was "From the lipstick to the revolu- described by Prof. Oscar Jaszi, of tion, from the reform in footwear (Oberlin College, as one of the out- lo the overthrow of the monarchy-standing causes of the present world all has been voluntary in China," situation. Urging historians not to suld the Ambassador,

rely too much on diplomatic docu- ments ns source material for TCM search, Professor Juszi warned that

Japan Learns Warfare

with Hiller, to high politics. Russia "I am in Finland,” she wrote, was mentioned, and Thyssen became Finland until the revolution had eloquent again.

been part of Russia, and then had Always he had been the main- become a separate Republic. spring of the German hintred of It was from a Finnish village tinting with von Papen and Russia. Always he had poured out the Princess Nadya wrote to Thyssen, President, von Hindenburg, had been Then with a generosity betting "diplomatic documents are occasion- hia money to finance the anti-telling him of her adventures. Maya-made Chancellor. Although he and a diplomat, he forecast that this ally composed with the special in- Bolshevik compaigns, the ceaseless sen, who had believed that she was the Nazi Party had dropped 2,000,000 same element of freedom "may some tention of creating an alibi for stream of anti-Red propaganda which dead, tried to go to her, but was bre-votes at the last election, Hitler new day break down the solid core of blurring responsibilities in advance,

The wanted was a

"a good, Nazi Germany was producing. vented by the war that the White ar stunt to swing pablle opinion in

popu- ancient habits in Japan as R has in

Professor Joszl charged that "Why," asked Hitler slowly. "why Russions

China," Bolshevista.

his favour. He had already used Only in the adoption of Western colossal "we-nre-not-to-blame" liter- anti-Semitism as an election cry; armaments and methods of warfare ature already is being built up HE TOURED MIS MONEY

now he pointed to Bolshevism as the has Japas been outstandingly sue in the present crisis. The whole INTO THAT WAR.

Ambassador declared. spirit of Hitlerism," he said, "can be cessful, the "Japan," he sold, "has succeeded in found in the German literature 20 galning this

the advent of knowledge Fuhrer." coveted where all other non-European na- tions have failed."

The impossibility of writing -in- Dr. James Phinney Baxter, Presl- telligible history purely on dent of Williams College, contended tional basis was brought to the at- that the American Government is tention of the historians by Prof. unwisely shaping its neutrality policy Walter L. Dorn, of Ohio State Uni-

do you hate Russia so much?"

Thyssen leaned back. There was a long silence, and then he answered:

I will tell yet.

He sent letters to the

Princess.

real

enciny,

"Co It's the first

"Go to Paris," he wrote,

Line

I have mentioned her

So was born the most colossal been political fraud that perpetrated in our time--Lie

hak

since.

Reichstag fre.

She stayed in Finland. In the neighbouring Repable of Estonia

And this is the story that Thyssen which, like Finland, bad once been told him, the story of a personal part of the Tsar's Empire, lived a tragedy which Jed one mon to noble family with whom her father'a at one time had been closely

Thyssen warmed his hands at

the Relehstag fire, and then rubbed them in lee.

years before

the

na-

dominate one nation and threaten the fambynd. They invited the Pria-Hitler, in the attempt to save him-upon the basis of our popular "ukestversity, during a discussion of cul-

safety of another with all the might conne

She was their quest for

at Germany's command. It is a love|cess to visit them. story,

When Thyssen was a young man, weeks, and nearly every day several rich, charming, and talented, his a letter to Thyssen telling him that father's Rhineland castle was often she was alive and happy. Then the

Ger-

He could not foresee the day when

self from disaster, would offer Russia his hand and seck Russia's help.

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE. said the Neutrality Act and the Im-Columbia University described na-

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and upon our moral disapprobation,"tural patterns in modden European

Declaring President Wilson's history, diplomatic victories before the World

Cultural Patterne War permitted European neutrals to "breathe a little easier," Dr. Baxter Dr. Carlton J. H. Hayes of

position of combat zones had been tionalism us the main thread in the "little short of disastrous" to neutral cultural patterns of European states, Old World nations.

[but Professor Dietrich Gerhard of **To many of us," he cold, "It Washington University maintained It Bringing Cargo from Marseilles via ecerned unwise for a neutral govern- was not nationalism but foreign He went by sea from Dantig to

ment to extend its responsibility be-polley and war that were the chief Tallinn, in Estonia, and searched

in tho Consignees are hereby informed yond the requirements of Inter-clements

Integration of unul he found the small, unpreten-th their goods with the exception national law.”-

European states, of Opium. Treasure and Valuables.

the gathering place of members of letters censed. the Kaiser's Court. Not only man aristocrats, but also their, Rus nian friends, noblemen. and noble- women of the Tsarist regime, came there.

It was at a hunting party given by his father in the woods surrounding the beautiful Land- bert Schloss that Fritz Thyssen, then thirty years

caught

old.

lils first glimpse of the lovely Princess Nadya, daughter of one of Russia's wealthiest

lest and most

influential Grab Dukes.

She

tois only sixteen years old, # woman's

but had already

beauty,

her

great, dark brown cyca throwing her bright, · fair, hair into piquant contrast. Thyssen, then na now, looked like a minn without a heart. That is stil his reputation among his, business Basociates. Perhaps that is why they have never guested his secret.. He fell in love with the PrincesA Nadya that day in the Landsberg wooda,

Ho and the Erincess met often after that, and as she grew Into womanhood an understand In developed between them. THEY - KNEWS – THAT THEY? LOVED EACH OTHER.

Leller

after letter from Thyssen, went unanswered. At last Thyssen nade up his mind to find out for himself tlie rès- son for this strango silence.

tlows home of the Princess's" fellow

exiles. Tearfully they told him the sad story.

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One afternoon, they said, the Prin Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kow- cess and her mald went for a walk on, whence delivery may be obtain: In the woods near Taúinn. In the ed immediately after landing. evening the maki · returnsti alone, and In teora. The only word that her lips would speak was "Ochrann

Ochrank."

It was the word that all Rus- zlan emigrer dreaded. The Ochrana was the dreaded secret police of the Soviet Government, Later the maid was able to tell what had happened that after-

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Damaged Packages will be examin- ed by the Company's Surveyor Messrs:-Goddard and Douglas In the presence of the Consignees 'ot 10.00 am on the 17th February, 1040.

Consignees must have a Revenue When she and her mistress came Officers in attendance when any duti

noon.

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undergrowth and stopped them. The No.Fire Insurance will be effected muld screamed, but was silenced by by us in any case whatever. à “gesture from_the_Princess,

What do you want?" sald Nadya

quietly.

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