HITLER’S GETAWAY!

Grey River Argus, 19 September 1944, Page 4

HITLER’S GETAWAY!

REPORTED TO USE U-BOAT (Rec. 9.0) NEW YORK, Sept. 18 The New York “Times’s” Stockholm correspondent says that an official report containing the observations of three people who have been in Germany jin official capacities on behalf of a nation which has since broken with the Reich and who had access to information not even available to diplomats and military attaches, states that after Germany's defeat Hitler will make a get-a-way in a passenger submarine specially built for the purpose and able to cover twenty thousand miles without refuelling. The 1,200-ton submarine was built at Gdyina shipyard and placed under the command of Germany’s U-boat hero number one, Lieutenant Luth. Every worker engaged in building sumptuously fit-ted-out U-boat was sworn to secrecy, and kept from contact with the outside world. The submarine’s range suggests that Japan may be an 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 Wehrmacht morale has sunk so low that soldiers are swapping rifles for a bottle of liquor op a pound of coffee. There is a suicide wave among hign-er-up army officers. It adds that experiments are proceeding with secret weapon number two, apparently some ray which is intended to’ put the magnetos of cars, tanks, and planes out of order at 6.000 feet range.