The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-11-10
Six Die AS Attempt
Is Made On Life OF
German War Lord

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MUNICH. Mo- I0-six persons
lost their lives last Wednesday
night when a time bomb aIlegedly
meant to take the life of Chancellor
Hitler. exploded in the historic
Buergerbrau cellar IN Munich. Hit
Ter, who had finished his speech
and had left the cellar but twelve
minutes before. escaped harm.
It was at the anniversary obser-
vance of the 18th year Of Nazism.
Throngs of National Socialists had
gathered in the small underground
cellar where in 1928 Hitler had
formed the party that was to come
into power in Germany and make
him Dictator of the German people.
Because of the war. the day had not
been proclaimed a national holiday
but members of the party. not in
their brown shirts and had gather
ed in the Buergerbrau cellar to hear
their Fuhrer deliver d long and
seathing speech against Britain and
France in which he denounced
Churchill as a warmonger" and
told the assembly the war of 1889
had been brought about by the same
powers that had forced war on an
unprepared Germany in 1914. He
said, however the present war was
entered into with supreme conf
denee by the entire German nation
for the reason that neither the Eng
lish nor French had been able to
defeat an unprepared Germany in
the first war.
Follows Bitter Speech
Twenty minutes later a deafening
explosion rocked the cellar. When
the dust had cleared, dead and
wounded Nazis lay sprawled across
overturned chairs and fallen debris
Leading newspapers of Munich
declared that the perpetrators of the
bombing outrage must have care
fully studied the customary form of
demonstration held annually in
Buergerbrau cellar by the old Guard
National Socialists and arranged the
explosion on supposition that last
Wednesdays ceremony would fol-
low its usual course.
The papers went on to say it was
not difficult to find the instigators
of the crime.
They sit in London. They have
their aecomplices here in the Berlin
Secret Service Britain has never re-
coiled from crimes of violence where
such crimes were deemed necessary
to serve the purposes of British I'm
perialism. one paper stated The
Nazi news organ went on to hope"
after the mystery surrounding the
crime has been cleared up and the
culprits exterminated it is the hope
that the German Reich will be rid,
in a single blow, Of all criminals in
the service of foreign countries"
The German press Indignantly de-
MED assertions made by the Stras-
bourg radio station that the Costa
pc was a party to the outrage.
Many Arrested
Investigation of the bombing is
being carried forward energetical-
ly but with utmost secrecy, it was
said. Several hundred persons have
been arrested, Professionally, in
police roundup and railway, street
and roadways leading out the city
are being watched closely. Persons
who have been arrested were sub
iect to questioning by the police and
those who established their identity
and obvious innocence were releas-
ed.
A reward of $360,000 has been
offered for information leading to
the arrest of the guilty parties.
Chief of German Police, Heinrich
Himmler issued a proclamation ask
ing all German men or women who
overheard anyone remark after the
conclusion of the broadcast OF the
Fuhrer's speech that at was aston
ishing nothing had happened" or
that "the speech concluded much
earlier than had been expected" to
report at once to the nearest police
station of the headquarters of the
Munich Gestapo.
CONGRATULATED BY
FOREIGN DIPLOMATS
BERLIN, Nov 10-Hitler receiv-
ed the Italian Ambassador and sew
eral foreign diplomats at the Chan
celery Thursday who rendered
their congratulations on his escape
from the Munich bombing. Numer-
Gus congratulatory messages were
received, among them expressions
from the Queen OF the Netherlands
and King Carol of Rumania.
EX-CR0WN PRINCE
REPORTED DETAINED