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Tuesday.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March

This Is What

To Unity

HER MEMORY

GONE:

12, 1940.

Happened Mitford

BRAIN INJURY

WITH two bullet wounds in her head, and a brain injury caused by one of the bullets, Miss Unity Mitford lay seriously ill last night in a private ward at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, says the Paris Sour in an exclusive article last month.

Detectives are watching over her night and day. Only nurses and doctors see her. It is said that her memory has gone.

Her condition is so low that an operation which is urgently necessary cannot be attempted until some strength has been restored to her.

feminine

With

the

"Traitor Of Stuttgart"

THE French Jam Stuttgart Because radio station. Why? they hate to hear the voice of Frenchman Ferdonnet, Paut turned traltor. They want to kill his Nazi propaganda broad- custs In French.

Ferdonnet, Every night former French Government em- ployce, says that Engal Is the of France and

Foremost among the doctors watch- Nuremberg Congress she was rather ing over her is one of the world's bitter. The Fuchrer had not been most brilliant young brain specialists, grateful enough for the fuss she bad forty-three-year-old Professor Buub created in Czecho-Slovakia.

blamed W. B. Cairns

logic she It was he who in 1932 led a team Czechs, who, she said, ought to be of five doctors in an all-day opera- exterminated, tion to remove a tumour from a

common enemy "In time Unity began to see less patient's brain, an

ribed as one of the must astonish-and less of Hitler. But she was ob

stinate. Ing in medical history:

operation

de-

It was he, too, who raced 100 miles by car to try to save Lawrence of Arabia after his fatal molor-evele

12.

Doctors' Amazed

"She had the den

to become a

German citizen. Luckily for her it came to nothing owing to the in- fluence her family,

"Probably Iller himself did not wish for her naturalisation. As a German Unity was of no use to him. "On the eve of war she lost her nerve.

The treaty with Russia stupiffed her. The eight days prior to the outbreak of hostilities she spent inj io dazed state, to which the consul al ¡Munich cum testify.

He stands by now to make the save Miss mly effort possible to

in- Mitford from permanent brain Jury and perhaps from death.

condition that She is in such the doctors are amazed that she could

have made her recent Journey from Germany.

transferred from When she was

Visited Her 'of her i the High Wycombe hume

The details of what happened on father, Lord Redesdale, to the in-

be really was September 3 will only firmary, the greatest secrecy observed. No one except nurses known If ever she can recount them specially allotted to her knew who herself.

That morning she wandered into ht

was

ous the Jardin Anglais- predestined) fanotes the Sauerwein, Jules Foreign Editor of Paris Sule, now lo name-and sat down on a sent. London, wrote for the Sunday Ex- press the following authentic account of what happened to Miss Mitford in It is the first full story Germany. tall since she returned to England. 'Tormented'

in

almost

"By that seat she was found with! bullet lodged in a bone of her fore head.

"To-day she is a public

figure

she

"She was tatisported to a mursing i home and recognised,

"Nuzi chiefs told the Fuehrer. For three months Unity lay between life "Miss Unity Mitford has

Hitter visited her several and death. entirely lost her memory. Sitting Ptimes. At fast she was well enough

her bed, the ranules in her speech to leave. when her friends visit her. One gets climpses of HEY tormented und ardent life from her incolierent re-equally suspect by the Gestapo and

But the Intelligence Service. Occasionally passages of one of does not merit this renown.

"She possesses three characteristics Ittler's speeches, which she has the belief in a great love, heard so often and pondered over fanaticism and the adoration of a so much that they surge from the religious manine, and the snobbish-

darkness of her mind, ness that makes

fall women

for unconscious

At are quoted by her mechanically,

farious men, whether boxers, cinema becomes other times she

irritated

stars or dictators." and declares: You know, I am not on your side.'

Take care.

"She does not put any defiance in these words. It is more of a wara- ingas if she were trying to tell her parents and the friends surrounding her with loving care: You do not know what I really am."

"During the fatal days just. before the war Unity would leave her small Munich flat and roam And aimlessly in, the streets.

once or twice a day she would go to the British Consulate to ask for advice, Always It was "The same, as she well-know:

Leave Immediately."

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Germany.

The suggestion is laughable to French people. But they do not laugh at Paul Ferdonnet. He is 10 15 "The referred always Traitor of Stuttgart." That is because

the French that before the war he was in touch with the Nazis..

Sacked from his Government post for misconduct, he develop- ed an enthusiasm for the Nazi He was always talking regime, botat

Then he left France,

Ifitler.

*:

who lives His former wife, Bear Paris, says that he used to practise speeches for hours in front of a mirror. Ferdonnet is a plausible speaker, and used to enjoy addressing public meet- ings. Once he stood as a condi- date at a loent election. But he when Once, hated questions. threatened after a meeting he

ran off.

His wife, who divorced him, also says, "He was always an extremist."

*

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Paul Ferdonnet hos relatives in Paris, but they have never listened to his broadcasts. When his old mother learned that he was broadensting for the enemy she became it and had to be cared for by muns.

Soon after the wor begna the military authorities in Paris de- Ferdonnet, for cided to indict the

high treason. He was eundemned to death.

So he knows what awails him it ever he tries to go home..

LATE NEWS

Britain Rejects Soviet Demarche

LONDON, March 11 (Domei).—li

has been officially announced that the

Goy

SOVIETS' FINAL OFFER

ROME, Mar. 11 (Reuter).-Accord-

Soviet Ambassador at London on ing to the Stockholm correspondent February 22 approached the British of the "Stefan!" news agency, the Government wi

with proposal for Finnish delegation has left Moscow British mediation in the Soviet for 11clsingfors Finnish

dispute. The Soviet de.. It is understood that the Soviet

the made a final offer which must for accepted or rejected within a given

time.

"The, day the consul left himself she Wis completely abandoned. marche has been rejected Hitler was not there, and had other grounds that the Soviet worries. She knew through his peace were too harsh. friends that he was preparing the

rape of Poland convinéed that Eng- Innd would not intervene.

not

"And for the credulous, blindly be trusting girl Hiller could wrong. If he said there would be no war there would be no war..

Gestapo Warn

"War come. The consul left. Unity was lost between two worlds. Ger- many,

once more menacing the civilised world, where she could not without almost certainly remain being treated us a spy and enemy. On the other hand, in England she might be accused of complielty with the Nazis,

"It was impossible for her to de- cide which course to lake. The Ges- upo warned her tactfully but clearly mind that she must make up her either to go immediately or to stay and renounce for the whole war England for ever,

"How she must have thought. If only HE had been there to advise her or make one of those speeches usually lasting an hour of which Unity used to say, 'He speaks to me as if I were

public meeting.

remember one evening in the tube in London as we were going to Faselst meeting in the East End Unity showed me on her leather belt an engraved date and the name of Adolf Hitler. She had the look on her face of a nun exhibiting a reliç.

Arrested "Another time at Vienna Hiler had just made a solemn entrance in the Ring greeted by the vociferous Unity shoutings of his partisans.

She 'Poor

was in the hall of the Grand Hotel opposite the Imperial Hotel where Hitler had just made specch. thought of only one thing: dear, she said, tenderly, 'I must go and comfort him, he must be worn out,'

"Forcing her way through the crowd she crossed to his hotel, to return only two hours later, having waited all that time to exchange two words with her hero,

"A few months later, in Prague, I saw her exhibiting her swastike, and told her she was asking for trouble,

That's what I want, she said. If it worries you, don't came with

I 'didn't. Three days later the inevitable She was arrested and searched. But she had suffered for her god and gloried In martyrdom.

- Bitter "When I met her later at the

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