SWIFT ACTION URGED

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 254, 24 July 1944, Page 5

SWIFT ACTION URGED

LONDON. Julv 22. Broadcasting on the Frankfurt radio wavelength. a sneaker describing himself as a German Army officer said: “Comrades. hy order of the commander of the army group of resistance. I announce that Co-'-t von Slauffcnberg has dealt the first blow at the Nazi Government. This initial action, namely, the attempt on Hitler's life, failed and Statiffenberg is dead, hut the -general action continues and will continue till Hiller and bis criminal regime are finally exterminated. The time has come for swift action. Every German officer must now speak up and say which side he takes." The broadcast was made at a time when Frankfurt radio is usually closed down.

Moscow radio yesterday brondast an appeal from the Free German Committee to the German Army to support the rising with all its strength and refuse Hitler’s orders. It also urged the revolting generals to call on the German business lenders to null their weight. The “ghost voice” interrupted Berlin rndio during a High Command communique with “Himmler is bringing S.S. troops against the Wehrmacht. The people are anti-Hitler and the Wehrmacht is anti-Hitler; they must unite.” The National Broadcasting Corporation in New York picked up a clandestine florman radio station which reported that Hitler has a four-engined transport plane, capable of flying 10.000 miles, standing by at a German secret air base. The rndio said that the same plane flew nonstop to Japan last year.