NOSTRADAMUS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 141, 17 June 1941, Page 5

NOSTRADAMUS

PROPHET OF DOOM! ei r 1 END OF DICTATORS jp . „ !t n ELPHiC UTTERANCES jo :n • id (By IRA WOLFERT) j e NEW YORK, May 17.j r The 400-year debate over Michel de Nostradame, a Frenchman of, a Jewish descent, a physician, astro-'c loger and oracular poet, of great';i fame in his lifetime as Nostradamus! • ai Kl of even greater fame because so many of his prophecies c seem to have come true, is on again \ "•poked up this time by the flight Rudolf Hess to England. jj It seems Nostradamus predicted < that, too—in his own crabbed way.;' He wrote almost 400 years ago, l Placing the time—some scholars) nave said—as our own, "A captain; °r great Germany shall come to < himself through pretended aid. the King of Kings ... so that his , revolt will cause great shedding of blood." . Nostradamus left no exact date lQ r this event, but several years ago, scholars placed this poem among a Se nes referring to the present century. Now the old seer's disciples; ®ie pointing out that Hess has, yielded himself and has "pretended ai d (that is not certain yet, but Possible). Hess' action appears to| nave been against Adolf Hitler Sj orders, a revolt, in fact, and now that remains for the flight I flWess the world is going to let tne ,Jv2■ man down—is that it should ®ause great shedding of blood. Bejabers Out of Italy ' Since the owner of the blood is; ft«P* specified, and a good deal of a Wood is likely to be shed m the next, months, the chances are the : y*rld is not going to let the old man *oWjq, in the eyes of his disciples.

Nostradamus had much to say J bout events which seem to fit the; i >resent war. "From the Orient; l hall come the punic heart he,< vrote, "to trouble Italy, and the,, leirs of Romulus, accompanied by < he Libyan fleet; the temples. ofh dalta and adjacent isles shall be, :mptied." _ ! ! That could mean —if you're a Nos-ji radamus disciple—the Australians ! mless the Australians object to the. ounic, meaning untrustwoi thy,, :ieart. Anyway, the boys came out,, if the Orient and troubled bejabers out of Italy with a fleet thatj □Derated around Libya. .^°^! T so ' n ! military experts are joining Nostiadamus in saying that Malta will be| evacuated. ! If Russia's current diplomatic, manoeuvres, interpreted by some asj efforts to scet an open ocean poit.j succeed, ahd are followed by an, iTLemPted invasion of England, the disciples will place annther feather, in " I The*efforts S bej preat- the port shall be opened on! the o'cearf. . London shall trembly discovered by sails." And it you want to Know what's going to happen npvt read this: "After combat and nival battle England shall be atop his highest tower; the Red adversary shall become pale with fright, putting the great ocean m fear. Russia's Entry Predicted And after that? _ ',' The , R °, ma ; l ] shall 6 im i tat e the footsteps cff itsgreat to the buffoons. Nostradamus speaks of 'a j duunv virate disjointed 'to Mara? which could be Hitler and jMussolini, putting th ® the world into war. On what migni ibe the same subject, he savs l"labertv shall not be recovereo, c 'black, fierce, villainous man shal I occupy it, when the material of ttu ■ihridee shall be wrought (bridge oi khipf across the Atlantic? Or simpb "'Rome-Berlin Axis?), the a ; Venice shall be vexed b> the ' Danube." , . This can. go on for a long # time because Nostradamus, in addition t( • naming few names and mentiomm "eT dftcs, also managedl ; tor

future, the old man sees a quick endj to the dictators, an end that willi be followed by a coming into their] own of the disinherited and enslaved, peoples under a leader who is not specified. He predicts Russian en-| trance into the war, the end of! England's dominant position, and indicates that a great fleet will bej ■destroyed. He does not specify I whose, but seems to hint at the inter-) ivention of the United States fleet in[ ! the war. j j An Amazing Score jj Nostradamus hasn't a perfect, 'score but he has an amazing one.]' >He predicted his own death correctly it 'and described with great exactitude ( I the death of King Henri 11. many,] lyears before it happened; the careei U liof Louis XIV. and the guillotining of| ( !r ouis XVI. He even named the,, 1 names of two men impUrated the ■ king's capture more than 200 ,\ •-ars -before either of them was born, and. j characterised the pccupation of o:ne. » He described Louis X\ I. s fli o nt to ; Varennes 200 years before the king .made it and the riot of the 500 who [''overpowered the Swiss guaid at the ITuileries. The Tuileries were a I small tile works, not a royal abode, v when Nostradamus was alive. His'i tor fans have asserted 500 were in the -jmob that dragged the king: from the iTuileries. Cromwell and the whole ihistory of Napoleon and his riding, 'descendants were itemised in extra-] l'ordinary detail. j t' Just before the blitzkrieg smashedl tJ France last vear, Nostradamus be-| l; c ame the leading commentator of the| clav—more quoted, more eageiiyj jread, more fiercely argued about; L-'than Dorothy Thompson. He pre-; n!dieted disaster for France. But the d trouble with all except a few of his d prophecies is they are so delphicall> if written that nobody can toll with t certainty what he is describing until it has come to pass.—"Auckland a Star"' and N.A.N.A. II ===== i e