The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-14

sion among Adolf Hitlsr's party
chieftains.
Authorized quarters IN Berlin
said documents left behind BY
Hess indicated he planned to
visit the Duke Of Hamilton In
Glasgow In m effort 70 bring
about peace. ~
Hess had the fixed idea that
he was . sort Of messiah by
whom . spectacular individual
gesture could bring about .
termination Of hostilities," q
Naxi Spokesman said.
The spokesman declared that
Hess had no intention OF ap.
preaching Prime Minister Chur.
chill or other British govern
ment leaders, but that he had -
crazy notion" that Q pacifist
group could end the war.
"Hess did not fee % . traitor,"
the spokesman asserted.
Nazi officials had previously
declared that Germany would
not accept any peace offer-ex-
cept on German terms.
In the Reich itself, Germans
received m oblique warning
against listening to foreign
broadcasts on the strange case.
Even rs the British radio
flooded the air-waves with Hess
stories in Czech, Spanish, Nor
wegian, French, German and
other languages, DNB, the off,
cial German, news agency, pub
lished q list of seven recent cases
In which persons were sentenced
to four to six-year terms for
turing-in their radios on foreign
broadcasts.
Only two Of Ave morning pa
pers In Berlin mentioned Hess
mysterious flight to the British
camp.
HESS OR HORSE,
Any priced military informa-
ton hs may have disclosed since
his parachute descent in Scot
land Saturday was kept secret
and q London spokesman, allud-
ing to the classic Trojan horse"
trick by which the ancient
Greeks captured Troy, declared:
I'VE want to be sure we have
mt Trojan Hess on our
hands"
Prime Minister Churchill,
himself, was expected to follow
up the preliminary questioning
of Britain's No. ! prisoner with
q personal interview. ir
The British people, eagerly
clutching for facts through tho
fog of conjecture about Hess
flight from Nazidom, hoped that
out Of that conference, through
an explained report Churchill
promised to the House Of Com
mons, they would get at least IN
inkling Of Hess story. and what
1t might mean for Britain. -
Informed sources In London
did not encourage that hope,
however. They declared that
whatever information about Hit
ler's military plans might be
cleaned from the Fuehrer's erst-
while confidante, who para
chuted down upon q Scottish
farm last Saturday, obviously
will be kept secret"
Authorized Germans, without
even waiting for reports on what
Hess might say, discounted In
advance any such statements the
British might issue.
They already have limited
strongly that Hess mind was
unbalanced ~ q result of stom-
ach and lung ailments, and add
ed that British stories purported-
ly coming from him might be
distorted for propaganda pur-
poses.
Although Germans still were
eager for more details of what
their press termed the Hess
case" the story was being drop
ped today from most Berlin
newspapers.
Hitler, plunging ahead with
his military campaign, declared
that ships risking the northern
Red Sea - supply route which
President Roosevelt opened re-
Gently to United States shipping
would expose themselves to
destruction by German armed
forces"
Informed circles In Washing
ton said Hitler's action had been
anticipated and was not expected
to chance United States plans for
getting supplies through to the
Suez.
Some observers at Washington
recalled that Roosevelt declared
four days ago IL was the law
that the United States protect
Its merchantmen wherever they
60 outside Of neutrality act COM
bat zones. Under the Presidents
order opening the Red Sea to
American ships, these Observers
said, . situation u created
whereby the administration
seems committed 70 protecting
American shipping In waters
now included by German in her
sea war area.
In the air war;. Britain report