STRANGE INTERLUDE

Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 92, 3 October 1941, Page 2

STRANGE INTERLUDE

The Deputy Fuehrer Hess is cold mutton on the news front. He’s old stuff; so old, in fact, that one could claim that he had gone rotten if he hadn’t been born that way.

No doubt Mr. Churchill and his advisers are quite capable of dealing with this grotesque crook, and the official silence on the whole affair will be of small comfort to Hess’s recent accomplices in Hunland. People, however, have not forgotten him, and the rumours are still on the wing.

We shot this one down recently.

Hess arrived on May 10. Since that night—writing on May —London has had sixteen raid-free nights and during the whole of that period bombing activity by the Germans over the British Isles has been quite negligible. Reason: Hess has proposed a bombing truce.

Not a likely story—but one that gets credence.

We prefer to believe that the Luftwaffe, for reasons of organisations plus bad weather, is unable to keep up prolonged bombing of Britain. Any other explanation seems to us to misunderstand the sombre character of the enemy.