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May 21, 1940.

I LUNCHED WITH

GOERING

K

attention to these

+ dark-green ARIN HALL, Field stopped by two S.S. guards in to the wrist, und

siceveless quedo leather jacket Marshal Hermann black uniforms.

adorned with butions made from Goering's .famous 'Some might think that riding in an deer's teeth mounted in silver. hunting lodge in the Schof- official car escorted by two members At the moment we came 'in ha'was

of the Field-Marshal's own body- proudly calling heide Forest some thirty guard would be sufficient identifien- buttons, saying that he had shot the miles from Berlin, was one tion, but not the Germans. of the spots visited by Mr. After saluting, one of the SÌS, boys Sumner Welles in his recent asked for our cards, which were cravat, which was kept in place by REfact-finding expedition to

G Germany.

Hongkong Telegraph.

taken to a small hut at the sido of

deer himself.

Around his neck was a red tortan

a great gold pin, and a gold hunting

the road, where, through the open knife in a gold sheath Infeld with

door, we could see both guards with thele heads together studying our Jowels hung from his belt, which had credentials and checking them against still more gold on it and resembled in many ways the less costly belts of a typewritten list.

American cowboys.

In it, Gooring has revived the feudal age, thrown in the baro que period, and topped off the

Then, one of the guards returned

On the left side of his broad chest whole with a dash of Rennissance and asked in English, “Bavo' you a

he wore the badge of the German the -not the culture of those times, means of proving that you are

Hunting Association, a stag with n mind you,

but Renaissance persons mentioned here?"

swastika resting between its antlers. splendour, baroque gaudiness My companion and I gave him vur The stag, too, was gold and the and feudal high living, in the passports and Press cards, and these swastika was set with emeralds and

Coffee and liqueurs were served midst of which the lord and were also taken to the hut. where diamonds.

in the Viking hall. Goering talked the guards made notations from the master gorges himself, topes, passports.

There were four big rings on his steadily and mopped his forehead "We must be nhout

manicured from time slubby innumerable there," I said to the chauffeur while

carefully

to time. Eating had lackeys, who rush to serve him. we waited. "Oh. no," he replied. flagers; the largest, a platinum one turned his complexion from pinic to Goering is Falstaff the Second at "We still have half an hour to go, zet with a ruby and an emerald, was florld red and he belched indiv

so wide that he could scarcely bend now and then. Karih Hall, where the smallest We shall make two more stops."

the Anger at the second joint. beer mug holds slightly over a quart.

and

at roars

but

-

On an old Norse pedestal and column' al one end of the room, with

a spotlight focussed on it, was a LIVE went over to Goering bust of his first wife, Karin Goering. Wand introduced ourselves, who died several years ago and for

Tuesday, May 21, 1940. Wyndham St, Hongkong

"Goering doesn't seem to trust his Telephone: 20015-

guests," remarked my companion as THE prefix “special to the TelegraphTM

we produced our credentials for the 1 used by the Hiltongkeng Talegraph" to

one of indicate news which is strictly copyright The ordinary ones hold a gal- third time and walled while under the provisions of the Telecommual-

the guards telephoned back to the radiona ordinance, it received in

Bich news alon or more, and a common bears the indication

means of proving manly strength lin. "It's not Gocting" our chauf- a nice trip out?" I said the trip was of gold-we could not tell-but if it two other stations and even to Ber- He shook our hands vigorously and whom the Hall was named. I don't Hongkong on the date of pubilcation by

asked in German; "Did you have suppose the bust was made entirely the United Press Associations, who 16-

among Goering's friends is Jascha Heifetz.

to feur said unexpectedly and with con- lovely but I had been uneasy about wasn't I was at least gold-plated. pick up a heavy stone mug tempt. "He wouldn't care who came, the guards who challenged us all filled with Pilsner, lift it to the but those others like to do it,"

along the way, "Oh," Goering said

Orch, de la Sociato des Concerts du Conservatoira, DB-3551 L'Ultima Canzone (Tosti)

...Beniamino Gigli. Occhi di Fita (Denza) Danse Espagnole (Falla) Ronde des Lutins (Bazzini)

DB-3535

DB-3439 DB-3198 DB-3199

DB-3146

DB-3036

Fidelio-Leonora's Recitative and Aria ..Kirsten Flagstad Introduction and Allegro for Strings (Elgar) Introduction and Allegro.....B.B.C. Symphony Orch. Sospiri Op. 70 (Elgan)

Harmonious Blacksmith (Handel). Sorge Rachmaninoff. Midsummer Night's Dream-Scherzo (Mendelssohn) On the Road to Mandalay (Kipling-Speaks)

Goin' Home (Fischer)

Lawrence Tibbalt,

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U.S. And The Lowlands

GERMANY'S invasion of Holland and Belgium hos brought the war home to Americans more surely than any other military development in Europe.

The reason is not that Holland has both West and East Indian

although that fact would

DB-3011 Prelude in C. Sharp (Rachmaninoff), Arthur Rubinstein.sions,

Menuetto and Trio (Schubert) DA-1695 William Tell-Overture (Rossini)

cause defence chiefs in Washington to put their heads together.

What touches the heart of the

Toscanini and N.B,C. Orchestra, ordinary citizer is the constant. re-

DA-1695: William Tell-Conclusion DA-1676-Deep-Rivor.

I Don't feel no ways tired.

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The President bears a Dutch nume. He is a

is a descendant of Claes Marten- sen, who settled in America in 1950. and look the name Van Roosevelt after his native Dutch village.

One of the leading Republican aspirants for Roosevelt's place in the While House is Senator Vandenberg. of Michigan, who is also of Dutch descent.

any.

Guering, noticing some of us look-

lips with one hand, and take a By "those others" we knew he with a loud laugh, "you will become ng towards the pedestal, pressed & mighty swig without spilling meant Heinrich Himmler and his used to that in this country. Ger- button in the arm of his easy chair, and the bust began to revolve slowly. Goering, who has the Gestapo. The tone of the chauffeur's mans like to have lots of offelals to He kept it moving, and at the

bother "them." strength of a bear, can do it volee made us curious, and we tried

Presently a servant opened a pair easily, and he shouts derisively to get him to tell us what he meant.

but he shrugged his shoulders and of doors in the rear of the hall and when his less virile Nazi friends became silent at every reference to nodded to Goering. "Who has the of the excellent coffee

best appetite?" the master asked, and fail to perform the feat.

the "others."

staring at it for several minutes..

When no one would accept more or cognac,

boil extreme rarities in war-time Germany, Goering asked if we would. like to inspect the rest of the lodge.

We passed through a number of

furnished rooms and then entered his gymnasium, which ~was equipped with "quantities of ap-" paratus for reducing and keeping t A rifle range and bowling alley ad- Joined this room.

Bernard Lansing, American journalist in war-time Germany, has been

claborately Here is his first-hand. to Karin Hall, Goering's country mansion, description of a remarkable lunch party in Germany's most luxuriousTM and eccentric household.

"How do

you like Goering?" I ksked, I HAD heard tales of life

at Karin Hall, a beau fellow]," the man replied, his

"Oh, he's a Mordskeri ja regular

hour when he

face

then started towards the dining room,

Finally we were taken to the attic, leading the way for the rest of us, where the floor of one enormous room eighteen or twenty in all.

was covered with a bas-relief' re-

We passed several rooms, which I production of an Alpine setting laid noticed were furnished in sharply out with the most complex miniature Many of America's leading families tifully situated retreat right in lighting up. "He has a 16-cylinder contrasting styles. One of them, transportation system 1 have ever bear Dutch names the Vanderbilts, the midst of Germany's largest compressor sports model, and

can with Byzantine decorations, had a seen. for example and the society columns wild-life preserve and given to he drive it! Never less than about fountain in the centre of its floor; of the newspapers are peppered with

Here, said Goering with a smile, goes another had been made to look like was where he spent his time when such names as Stuyvesant, Van Wyck, Goering by the State of Prussia, 80 mlies an Suydan, Voorhees, Schuyler, Hoyt but as an American journalist through here."

an old Vilding hall with heavy oaken it was too wet to go hunting. He and De Witt.

York City was once a Dutch

no better than tolerated in Ger- "And when he swears at his stable- beams and walls hung with ancient pressed a number of buttons, which

man," the settlement. Its name was New Am- many I was surprised to receive miration for his chief fairly bubbling of war.

chauffeur went on, ad- Norse shields and other implements sent railway trains dashing out of sterdam. Every

sheds and along tracks whle signal American school- child is taught how Henry Hudson, an invitation to lunch there not in his volce, "you can hear him all

the English navigator, while employ ed by the Dutch East India Company, New York Harbour in the called Half Moon in 1009 and explored the river that is named after

him. Peter Minult, first

first director-general of the

now

province, bought the Jaland of Manhattan from the In- dians with cloth, beads and trinkets

worth less than £5.

long ago.

The dining room was Louis lights flashed and switches operated the way across the lake."

Quinze in decor, done in a restful automatically. Passed by the final guard, we en-colour scheme of gilt and soft green; Goering with boyish delight, It came in a large vellum en- tered a stone gateway and turned a series of french windows provided pushed other buttons to make toy velope which was delivered by up a drive into a large court danked & splendid view of an expansive motor-cars and trucks go spinning messenger to my flat in war on three sides by a low, rambling terrace and a lake behind it. Behind along highways. At last he said, and pressed still-an- "Now watch," The building laid out in the manner of each chair stood a lackey dressed, other button. A miniature aeroplanic scarred, gloomy Berlin. message was inscribed in Ger- the North German Bauernhof, or eighteenth century style, in long with three humming motore took off white suede boots, green velvet from the ground, spiralled into the breeches and Lallcont with git air and curved above our heads,

The figure

man on a six-by-nine-inch white, farmhouse. of a Inter Governor of New Amsterdam--Peter Stuyvesant, card, with a gilt cagle perched who stumped about on a wooden leg upon a laurel wreath surround-

~is as familiar to Americans as Dick

Whittington is to Englishmen.

At the entrance to New York har-

ing a swastika as a crest.

At the far end of the court was the

trimmings and white lace jabot and lodge, made of stone, and in the ad-

cuffs, but no wig. - Joining wings on either side were the

stables and storage rooms. Numerous The effect of cropped German That Goering regarded it as a boara' heads and antlers were mount- heads and thick necks bulging out command which could not be re-ed-on-the-walls-facing the court of such delicate Story was a peculiar fused became evident two days protected from the weather by the one.

overhanging roofs.

bour is the island named Staten. separated from the New Jersey shore by a channel called the Kill van Kull. Cornellus Vanderbilt, founder of the Vanderbilt fortune, was born on later when, although I had not Staten Island and began his success-

▾

WHEN it had landed Goering explained that it was guld-

by wires so fine that they were

Invisible, HE WAS OBVIOLLIÿ" "MORE Interested in his toys than in his The luncheon. conalsted

of guests, and stayed there for over half an hour squatting on his asparagus soup, trout, saddle

of haunches and chuckling loudly to vention and dessert. In front of himself as he kept the machines cach guest stood four beautiful hustling about. S we come to a stop, at-

crystal wineglasses tendants attired as German different periods of French

ful career by running a ferryboat got around to replying, a second service between the island and Man-envelope arrived, also delivered hation,

representing. Outside the lodge, a fleet of black York-is a benevolent old gentleman identification card and informa- foresters grey-green

The mythical "patron saint" of New by messenger. It contained an

and cars was lined up along the drive named Father Knickerbocker. The tion to the effect that a car breeches trimmed with dark green, filled in sequence as the meal pro- their heads almost circled by long and German glass-making, and they were to take us back to Berlin. A squad Knickerbocker Club was founded in

of eight German foresters slood by, 1871 for the benefit of descendants of would call for me on the morning, black boots, a Robin Hood hat with gressed with two French and two curved brass horns, and played old of the appointed day to take me brush, and a huntsman's dagger in an German wines of truly impressive colls of the hunt just before we

the old Dutch settlers.

The first church established fri New

York was the Dutch Reformed to Karin Hall.

Church (1628). which Is now called

the Collegiate Church,

The car, one

coat

ornamented sheath-stepped up and vintages. opened the door of the car, greeted

started.

of the large, un with "Hei!!" (but no “Hilter"}, Goering had the best appelite of The Bowery, the famous street on black, open Mercedes favoured and polnied the way to the heavy any at the table. the lower East Side of Manhattan, by Nazi officials, arrived on double doors leading into the lodge, He slled food on his plate time legs wide apart, his arms akimbo, derives its name from a n Dutch word. moaning "farm." Near this squalid schedule. Two guards in black

I thorous Bouwerie;* ·

a

Looking back as my ear passed through the gateway, I saw Coering standing in front of his door, his. fat.

one of which was ajar.

and again, and it seemed to me that and his long, thinning hair ruffed by

the wind. Is

We entered a vast room which ran his wineglass was constantly being church called St. uniforms, one of whom doubled

which pre-

"the entire length of the house and Iri refited;"

TUNNY WINS Bat serves the older spelling or the word.

as chauffeur, sat in front.

which among other luxurious fur- Once, when his lackey started to ON QUOTATION There is Holland Tunnel connect- Ing Manhattan and Now Jersey.

I was bundled, with numerous nishings, were beautiful Itoman sar- remove a hall-empty glass at the Harlem, which was a fashionable re-lap robes, into the rear

and seat coplagi

several magnificent end of a course, Goering snatched it FROM SHAKESPEARE sidential district before the Negroes beside a Norwegian newspaper- Goering calls his favourite artist. here!"), laughing violently when paintings by Lucas Cranach, whom and yelled "Hinaus!" ("Get out of

NEW YORK: adopted it, is a

The Harlem River is

contraction of Haar lem. The

the man who was being similarly

Gene Tunney, the_former Heavy- northern

boundary of Manhattan.

At the centre of the room, standing some of his guests looked up from weight champion boxer, won a bat of 6,000 dollars to-day from Pro-- There is a small section of the honoured. He told me what I in a characteristic pose with his hand their food in surprise.

Taylor fessor Jacob

of the Ohio- 2011

called

Buspected that resting on a huge osk writing table, Hampstead Husten Duyvll. The had already

He had difficulty in keeping the State

Over a quotation et New York is this was to be a party for a num- was (loering, talking to some questa nowing sleeves of bis, slite shirt out from Shakespeare. Van Cortlandt Park.

But ho refused to take the money In New York State, New Jersey ber of diplomats and foreign who had already arrived.

of his plate while eating, and I half and Pennsylvania there are towns, correspondents. counties, rivera and mountains with

He was

dressed in clothes of expected him to roll them above his because he said he knew tint he

wad betting on a certainty, elbows, Dutch names: Catskill, Peekskill,

astonishing originality-long olive-

He was reciting the line "Lay on The reason for the identifica- green buckskin boots reaching well

Macduf When the meal was over and we Profestor Taylor Interrupted lot

from

"Macbeth" when Schuyler Krum Elbow Rensselaer, tion card became apparent when above his nece, beige-coloured were leaving the dining room and said that he was wrong Watervliet, and Schuly hel

Dutch incuence is confined after about twenty minutes, we buckskin, breeches, a white silk shirt noticed spots of gravy not only on Reference to the play, proved Newly Un New York area, but turned off the highway on to a with an unusually large collar and his sleeves but also down the front Tunney to be right The line occurs New York City is the nerve centre alde road and were immediately wide, Dowing sleeves while tapered of his jacket.

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