The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-17
German Newspapers
 Attacking Roosevelt
CcOntinued from Page D

NVAAtAAAttS4 pIn case this rescue action for Brit ain should fail, Roosevelt wants to make himself the heir of British plutocracy in behalf of the New York banks, Stock Exchange and his yew friends"
 Roosevelt In China Shop
 roosevelt in China shop; lying epeecl1 that went wrong' and Roosevelt refuted by London; even America can not rescue England; Iies about democratic freedom were typical headlines blazoned across the first pages Of the news papers.
 An authorized Nazi informant had Uaid of the Presidents speech Sat- slrday night that "the German press will answer"
 Der Angriff, newspaper organ ot Rfe Nazi labor front, said:
 ''The speech was the peak of a nampaign of lies with which the American people have been miSled for weeks"
 In announcing that the German press would reply to the President An authorized informant said
 If President Roosevelt feels il necessary to talk repeatedly to the German people directly, the Ger. man people should be given an op' portunity to reply to him through their press" .. The spokesman recalled an old saying that goes: Whoever shouts into forests will get an answer"
 And that some times Is clearer than the original shout" the spokesman added.
 Hitler Promises Victory
 Adolf Hitler, in a speech inter. preted as an implicit, If indirect answer to the President, promiset his people victory this year and as. serted that now power and no att an the world will alter the outcome of thiS war"
 Addressing high army, air force and navy officers and Nazi leaders in celebration of war heroes Mem. orial Day yesterday. Hitler said:
 England will fall the Ger. man armed forces today are might aest in German history. They are Cool and determined to end in 194l what they commenced in 1940 |. the nation is sufftised with conf. dence and determination"
 Hitler said Germany's "Italiar comrades" had to bear the brunt oi fighting in the early part Of thit year but that Germany was pre- pared now to take over it's share.
 He said Winston Churchill woulf never destroy Germany either from the air or from the sea.
 On the contrary, he said, Ger. many and its allies would Wrest world peace from the struggle.
 Expressing "boundless confidence in tho German soldier, his training his equipment and his attitude. Hit Ter said:
 s Complete old Job
 "The armed forces are committed to completing that which was moi completed in l9i4-10l8"
 If in 1918 Germany had achieved only . fraction of what 1t achieved on the western front in l940, 4 would have won the war Hitlei said.
 Hitler cited the testimony of Rob ert F. Wood, chairman of the boart of Sears, Roebuck and Co. befor' 6 senate committee that Winston Churchill had told him in 1936 tha Germany was becoming too strong and must be destroyed. This, Hit. Ter said, was illustrative of a wal Inongering spirit to which Poland eventually became victim.
 Burning of Bremen
 Berlin, March 17.-(UP)--Fire oi undisclosed origin broke out yes. terday in Germany's 5i,73l ton, $20,- 100000 supcr-liner Bremen and was still burning today, 1t was officially announced.
 It was not disclosed where the Bremen was now lying.
 The Bremen escaped capture by the BRitish in @ run from New York to Russia's Arctic port of Murmansk after the war started and made her way back to German waters ir safety.
 There had been many reports that she had been sunk at various times and places.
 @ Its band playing "Deutschlanc Ueber Alles," the Bremen sailed from New York August 30, l939, just be. fore the war started, after a 40-houi delay occasioned by a United Statei search for arms. Germans protested angrily.
 The next news from the Bremen was that 1t was at Murmansk.
 There had been reports meantime that the British had captured th' Bremen on the high seas, but th' admiralty denied them as silly.
 However, when the Bremen madl her way down the Norwegian coas to a German port in January l940 the British asserted that the British submarine Salmon, commanded D, Lieut.. Comdr E. O. B. Bickfortl sighted the Bremen and ordered 1t t halt and had trained guns on 1 when German planes appeared ant compelled him to submerge. Becaus of a scrupulous regard for the rule