ROTHERMERE CASE

Evening Star, Issue 23421, 11 November 1939, Page 11

ROTHERMERE CASE

PRINCESS STEFANIE'S EVIDENCE " MADE MUNICH AGREEMENT POSSIBLE a LONDON, November 10. (Received November 11, at 1 p.m.)' On the resumption of the Rothermere case, Princess Stefanie denied that she used Captain Weidemann. (Hitler’s former aide-de-camp) to put pressure on Lord Rothermere to pay her a large sum. Sir William Jowitt, K.C., produced a letter from Captain Weidemann to Lord Rothermere, in which Captain Weidemann said the princess handed him a statement of her case and also Lord Rothermere’a correspondence with Hitler. The letter read: “ You know the Fuhrer greatly appreciates the work the princess did in order to straighten out • the relations between our countries. It was her groundwork that made the Munich Agreement possible.’l The princess: That is true. The letter added that Captain Weidemann did not doubt Hitler would help the princess to re-establish her personal honour and financial status, because of his friendship with her. Sir William Jowitt said: “ It would be easy on Lord Rothermere to pay all the lady desires, but he considers her claim dishonest, for which reason it is his duty to resist it. He never contracted to support her for life.” [Alleging that Lord Rothermere engaged her as personal foreign representative, the Viennese princess, Stefanie of Hohenlohe-Waldenbourg, the divorced wife of an Hungarian magnate, is suing him for breach of contract.] GERMAN RADIO IN MEXICO BETRAYING SHIP MOVEMENTS TO RAIDERS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, November 10. (Received November 11, at 12.15 p.m.)’ The Associated Press of America’s Mexico City correspondent says that Allied, neutral, and foreign intelligence agents are investigating reports that secret German radio stations, deep in the interior of Mexico, are sending informa, tion to the sea raiders on ship movo> ments. The rugged interior and difficult communications hamper Government control of the situation. NO RESPITE POSSIBLE GERMANY MUST BE LAID LOW FREk4 MINISTER'S DECLARATION PARIS, November 10. “ If we give Germany the respite eh# asks for and expose the French army to the risk of being surprised and defeated a few months hence, the Nazis ■will become absolute masters . of Europe,” declared M. Paul Reynaud, the Minister of Finance, when addressing the American Club. “ German domination to-day would be definitely more cruel than a quarter of a century ago, because by means of physical restraint and moral subjugation she is more powerful than ever. Three nations have been laid in the tomb in 18 months, and now Germany offers peace, which means, * Give me a breathing spell. Let me digest the substance of my first victims and get strength to go on-’ The Allies will never compromise American neutrality. They need arms, raw materials, and machines, not men.” MUNITIONS SUPPLY BRITISH PRODUCTION IN FULL SWING lIASS ORDERS TO BE PLACED IN AMERICA (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, November 10. (Received November 11, at 11.30 a.m.)l The Director-General of Munitions stated to-day that mass orders, firstly for machine tools, then for ammunition, were to be placed by Britain in th# United States. Canada, he added', was already supplying shells, and that dominion was also likely to produce an appreciable percentage of the total shell output. British ordnance factories were now employing eight or nine times the numbers in 1936. The figures and peak were nowhere reached yet. Ha expressed the conviction that although Britain was trying to do in the industrial sphere in two years what for several years had occupied Germany with everything mobilised, We shall do a better job in our own way. Our way is to rely on the goodwill of everybody concerned.” He paid a tribute to th# part Labour was playing in the national effort and to the patriotic and disinter, ested manner in which industry gena* rally had rallied to meet the occasion* MILITARY MATERIAL MANUFACTURE IN SOUTH AFRICA (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, November 10. (Received■•November 11, at 11.30 a.m.) - The South African Minister of Labour announced yesterday that a start would be made in South Alnca in the immediate future with the manufacture of military materials on a large scale and that in this respect the Air Force requirements would figure prominently.