HITLER AND GENERALS

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 June 1942, Page 6

HITLER AND GENERALS

FEAR OF ASSASSINATION

(Recd. 9.35) NEW YORK, June I. Hitler's fear of his own generals.is so great that anyone visiting him must leave his revolver, sabre, and military belt in the ante-room, says Louis Lochner, the Associated 1 rcss of America correspondent, who has just returned from Berlin under an exchange arrangement. Recalling how many ol the German military leaders were put in the discard. Lochner asserts that Hitler is so filled with military ambition that, he cannot tolerate other gods besides himself, tie loves the game ol war, and desires to out-Napoleon Napoleon.

HEYDRICH'S WOUNDS FATAL

LONDON. June 3

Heydrich is dead. This announcement. was made to-day by the Official German News Agency. He was shot at in Prague last week and received serious wounds.

Known in Germany as -‘the Hangman,” Reinhard Heydrich was appointed Nazi Protector of Bohemia and Moravia in September, 1941. He immediately had the Premier, General Alois Elias, arrested on a charge of nigh treason and initiated a reign of terror in which within a lew weeks 2000 people were executed. Tall, lean, pale, unsmiling, Heydrich was 38 years of age. At 15 no entered the Nationalist Youth Movement. Then he became a naval officer. He was cashiered and entered the Nazi movement, and through blackmail was brought by an officer under the eye of Himmler, whose lieutenant he became. He was hated in the German Army, which believed that he was responsible for the system of attaching a member of the Gestapo to every battalion. II was Heydrich who signed many of the warrants in the blood purge of June, 1934, and is believed to have shot Strasser, the organisation leader of the Nazi Party, with his own hand. BRITISH WEAPONS USED? (Recd. noon) LONDON, Juno 4. The Berlin radio declared that all tlio weapons used against Heydrich were of British origin. One assailant dropped a tommy-gun, which was the same as those found on parachutists who dropped over the Protectorate. Il is announced from Prague that another 142 people have been sentenced al Bratislava to terms up to 12 years. ‘Tor subversive Communis* activity.”