Evening star., 1941-11-09
Reich Navy Ordered to Hold Fire
Till u: S. Attacks Hitler Says;
R.A.F.Roars Over GermanyAgain
Officers Who Fail
To Defend Selves
To Face Trial
BY the Associated Press.

BERLIN, NOV. 0.-AdOl1 HlIieI
declared tonight in reply to
President Roosevelt's Navy Day
challenge that he had ordered
the German navy to fire on
American ships only after being
attacked, but that any officer
who then failed to fire would be
courtmartialled.
In apparent answer to President
Roosevelt's assertion that "all that
will matter is who fired the last
shot" Hitler said no matter how
long the war lasts the last bat
TALON on the field will be German
The first direct reply to the Amer
lean President from the Fuehrer
was made in Munich beer hall
anniversary speech. Hitler returned
dramatically from the eastern front
to address brown-shirted ranks OF
the Nazi old guard assembled to
celebrate the putSch of November
9, 1923.
The hall where Hitler spoke was
wrecked two years ago by a bomb
explosion IL minutes after he left.
CThere was no immediate in
dication whether the r. A. F.
had attempted to bomb the
buergerbraeu area Of Munich
during this years celebration as
it did last year when Hitler also
spoke thereD
Defies Britain to Invade.
Hitler declared Germany would
choke off Russia and defied Britain
to attempt an invasion of the west.
His armies, he said, could defend
Germany and all of Europe despite
American threats and plans for
gigantic armament"
He referred to constantly re-
newed threats from America and
repeated a warning made a year
ago that any enemy ships carrying
war material would be torpedoed.
Hitler said "Blitzkrieg' was silly
word, so he never had used it; but
if such a word could be applied it
should be the description OF the
Russian campaign.
Never was a great empire smash
ed and destroyed in shorter time
than was Soviet Russia this time"
he said.
Repeats Torpedoing Threat.
OF the battle of the Atlantic, Hit
Ter said:
"I have already declared over a
year ago that whatever ship carries
war materials, that is material to
kill soldiers, will be torpedoed.
If now the American President
Roosevelt, who already is responsible
for Poland's entry into the conflict
and who, as we can prove to him
precisely today, decided that France
enter this war, believes he can per-
haps make us soft by an order to
shoot, then I can give this gentle
man only one answer:
Mr.. President Roosevelt has COM
manded his ships to shoot as soon
as they see German ships. And l
have commanded German ships,
whenever they see American, not to
shoot thereupon but to defend
themselves as soon as they are at
tackled.
The German officer who does not
defend himself I will place before a
courtmartial.
If therefore an American ship on
the basis of the command of its
President shoots, then it will do so
at its own danger. The German ship
will defend itself and our torpedoes
will strike"
Map Branded a Forgery.
In connection with the map which
President Roosevelt said showed
German designs on South America,
Hitler branded it "a ridiculous
forgery"
"As far as I am concerned he
said, South America is as far
away as the moon"
Referring to the American Presi-
dents assertion that the Nazis plan
to abolish all religions, he said 1T
does not interest me what kinds of
religion there are in the world and
peoples attitudes towards these
religions"
Replying to statement attributed
to Wendell L. Willkie that WASH
ington or Berlin were destined to
be the world capital Hitler said
Berlin does not want to be a
world capital and Washington never
will"
Then the Nazi chieftain compared
Germany and the United States
I'm told: Yes, there is America
125OOO.O0O human beings!
Territory which today works di-
rectly for us includes more thar
(See HITLER, Page A-8)