OFFICIAL ATTITUDE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 114, 16 May 1941, Page 7

OFFICIAL ATTITUDE

CATEGORY OF CRIMINAL

(Rec. 12.40 p.m.) LONDON. May 15

The Associated Press learned from a high-placed official that the Government regards Hess not only as a prisoner of war but in the same category as the Nazi criminals who were responsible Cor the bloodshed, suffering, and misery in Czeeho-Slovakia. Poland. and elsewhere. Hess is still kept isolated in a room at a military hospital, with an officer in attendance and guards nearby. Zurich reports that Berlin officials told foreign newspapermen that the Luftwaffe is preparing for a bigger air raid than London has yet suffered, as proof that Hitler does not share Hess's idea about coming to peace terms with England.

However, all neutral correspondents report ever-increasing perplexity and bewilderment among the German population over Hess's flight, and this is said to be accentuated by many contradictory explanations circulated from Berlin. The allegation that Hess might be given drugs to make him talk is taken as an indication that the Wilhelmstrasse knows Hess is normal, although other Berlin authorities stick to the story that he is mentally unbalanced.—U.P.A.

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