Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-08

Thirteen.
The Silesian showed his
small tobacco-stained teeth in
a ghost of a grin.
"And sailors. too"
Suddenly, with a forward
thrust of his shoulders, he
added:
what do you think OF the
situation ."
MARCH Is TOO LATE
eff we don't come to real
mass actions before March,
it'll be too late" l said.
"Too late for what ."
"For an offensive"
Wollweber growled:
1T il not too late. Too
early. rather. We shall leave
the initiative to Hitler. He
will blundcr and the masses
will wake up. Nothing Is
stronger than the masses. The
character of our slogans Is
offensive. Naturally. What
we need are waves of small
skirmishes 10 cover tactical
retreat. \ retreat Is not a
defeat. Or is il >"
a deviliSh CLEAN was in his
eyes.
NO" I said
a leader must sense what
II i'm the Masses" Wollweber
went on. "Just now the
masses won't fight. The best
we can do in the circum-
stances Is to whip fight into
the masses. And TO keep Hit
Ter on his toes. BY disruption.
BY sabotage. BY shooting out
of the dark. In the long run,
that'll unnerv the cut
thrOats. We must inspire
ourselves and all the COM
rades with n will To self
sacrifice. II not, we can't
survive"
mo fear" I said "Our
cadres show their mettle."
1.-THE cadres are good
Wollweber said sullenly.
"HOw our grand moguls will
stand Observation-Disclosures an
other question. The fellows
who hang on for the legendary
money from Moscow will
never be willing 10 sacrifice
their lives. They are going to
get the bum's rush"
Ernst Wollweber was a
thorough German. He de-
SpiSed all internationalists
who did not bring with them
the background and the ira
ditions of the Russian Bolshe-
vikS. In Wollweber's mind, l
suspected, the world consisted
only of two worthwhile
countries. One was the Soviet
Union. The other was Ger
many. And the rest was rub
biSh.
IL was told to see Kippen-
berger" l said.
HE DISAPPEARED
you don't need him. He
had to disappear. Count
Helldorf wants him for muir
der"
Count Helldorf was the
chief of the Berlin storm
troops. The murder referred
to was the assassination of
two officers. Schenck and An
lauf, civil war experts in the
Berlin police department.
Both were shot 10 death in
front of the Karl Liebknecht
House by agents of the Com
muniSt Espionage Defense.
Count Helldorf late be-
came police president Of
Berlin. Hans Kippenberger,
who was a ReichStag deputy,
was arrested by the GPU in
Moscow in 1886, and has dis
appeared like so many of his
comrades.
Wollweber then came down
10 my immediate tasks. 1
was TO go TO ain address in
Charlottenburg, 10 Kuschin-
sky, on LuetzowerStraSSe
where a large number of suit
cases and travelling bags
pack ed with confidential
documents of the central COM
mittee and the Western Secre-
tariat were ready for trans
portation 10 Copenhagen.
The route of transport led
over the German port of
FlenSburg 10 the Danish
town of Sonderburg. across an
arm of the Baltic Sea. The
job was a simple smuggling
enterprise. but Of utmost i'm
portanCe.
Wollweber arranged for
courierS 10 inform my scat
tered crew TO assemble in
conspicuously in the waiting
room Of the Charlottenburg
railroad station. There l
issued tho necessary instruc-
tons, never TO more than one
man al a time.
one by one we proceeded TO
the address on Luetzower-.
strasSe. There each man re-
ceived two heavy Suitcases,
sum Of money, and a second
class ticket 10 Flensburg. We
travelled at night, all aboard
the same train. but each man
in a different compartment.
As the train rumbled north
IL a.