REPORTED ESCAPE PLAN

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 69, 19 September 1944, Page 5

REPORTED ESCAPE PLAN

SUBMARINE FOR HITLER

NEW YORK, September 18. After the defeat of Germany Hitler will make a get-away in a passenger submarine which has been specially built for the purpose and is able to cover 20,0tM) miles without refuelling. The Stocklxolm correspondent of the "New York Times" says this is declared in an official report containing observations by three people who have been m Gerrmtfiy in official capacities on behalf of a nation which has since broken with th^ Reich, and who had access to,information that was not even available to diplomats and military attaches.

A 1200-ton submarine, the report says, was built at a. Gdynia shipyard and placed under the command of Germany's No. 1 Ur-boat- hero, Lieutenant Luth. Every worker engaged in building this sumptuously nt.ted-o.ut U-boat was sworn to secrecy ■and kept from contact with the outside world. The submarine's range suggests that Japan would be the immediate goal, with perhaps stops at Argentina and out-of-the-way posts. Hitler is expected to take vast quantities of gold to pay his expenses.. !

The report also says that morale in the Wehrmacht has sunk so low that soldiers are swapping rifles for a bottle of liquor or a pound of coffee. There is a suicide wave among the higiier-up army officers.

It adds that experiments are proceeding with secret weapon No. 2, which is apparently some ray intended to put the magnetos.of cars, tanks, a\nd planes out of order at a range of 6000 feet.