AGAINST HITLER

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 253, 25 October 1943, Page 3

AGAINST HITLER

LEAFLETS ISSUED Military Dictatorship Suggested N.Z. Press Association—Copyright Rec. 11.30 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 24. Leaflets have been circulated in Germany calling for the overthrow of Hitler. This was admitted by Hans Fritsohe, political director of German broadcasts, when he warned listeners against "mysterious plans for the overthrow of the Hitler regime and me setting up of a military dictatorship aw the Badoglio model." The leaflets purport to be signed by Governor-General Franck, Reich Commissioner Terboven, Gauleiter Eric Koche ana Navy leaders. "Other leaflets have been signed by the 'Association of the BombedOut'—the voice of complaints of air raid yictims," Fritsche said. "These contain complaints about the privations they suffer and their billets."

MILITARY MISSION U.S. Expands Representation In Russia AMBASSADOR'S POWERS Rec. 10 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 24. The United States Government is strengthening its representation in Russia and establishing a full military mission to replace the former military and naval attaches, says Reuters Moscow correspondent. Major-General J. R. Deane heads the military mission, with Brigadier S. Spalding and Commodore Olsen representing the Army and Navy respectively. All American interests in Russia are being centralised under the Ambassador, Mr. Averell Harriman, including lend-lease supplies which were previously controlled independently. THIRTEEN KILLED Swedish Transport Plane Shot Down At Sea RESENTMENT AGAINST NAZIS STOCKHOLM, Oct. 24. Thirteen people were killed when a Swedish transport plane en route to Stockholm from England crashed on Friday night on the west coast of Sweden.

The plane had previously sent the following radio message:—"Forced to make emergency landing. We have been shot down." The machine crashed in the sea at Haallce, 53 miles north of Gothenburg. It is presumed that a German fighter destroyed the plane. An official Swedish report stated that the plane was shot down over Swedish territorial waters. It attempted to alight on the sea,r but crashed into a rock and caught fire. The passengers included Dr. T. C. Hume, an American clergyman, and the wives of the Soviet naval attache and assistant-naval attache at Stockholm, who were each accompanied by two children. Another Swedish transport plane was similarly shot down about two months ago. Public opinion in Sweden is raging against the shooting down of the plane, according to the Swedish Press. The Stockholm newspaper Allehanda demands that the Government should ban German courier traffic through Sweden until satisfaction is given. In the meantime, the air service between Britain and Sweden is suspended pending talks between the Swedish and British Governments. TWO DESTROYED FOCKE WITL.FS NEAR FRANCE Rec. 9.30 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 24. Two of a formation of four Focke Wulf 190's which tried to intercept a squadron of Fighter Command Spit-

fires off the French coast yesterday morning were destroyed before they could fire a shot. The other two turned for home as soon as the Spitfires came in view. Mustangs and Typhoons damaged 15 locomotives and set a freight train on fire. Typhoons scored hits on three of four German destroyers off the coast and blew up a small tanker. No Allied planes were lost in these operations. ATTACKS ON FRANCE Rec. 1 p.m. RUGBY, Oct. 24. American Marauders attacked fighter airfields at BeauvaisNiviliers and Saint Andre Leure and the bomber field at Montdidier, France, on Sunday. The bombers were escorted and covered by American Thunderbolts and H.A.b. Dominion and Allied fighters. Early reports say that seven enemy aircraft were destroyed by the fighters for the loss of one.