Evening star., 1944-07-22
More Than 1000
Persons Said to
Have Been Seized
By the Associated Press.

DAY TO German troops today thai
an attempted coup d'etat by "s
small circle of unscrupulous
officers" had been crushed, ,anc
expressed confidence the army
will fight with exemplary obedi-
ence and loyalty until victory is
ours in spite of all"
by immediate and vigorous &C.
ton by loyal officers and men of the
army at home, the traitor clique wa.
wiped out or arrested in the matter
OF few hours" Hitler said.
"A small circle of INSCRIPTIONS of.
ficers had made an attempt to mur-
der me and the general staff and tc
seize power in the state" but "Provi-
dence caused the attempt to mis-
carry"
His order, an obvious attempt to
reassure his own followers in army
ranks and to discourage any further
revolt, came as press and eyewitness
accounts indicated that nowhere had
the enemies of Hitler succeeded in
seizing power or taking over key
positions.
100 Officers Reported Executed.
A rapid, bloody and ruthless purge
apparently had stamped out the re-
bellion. Reports reaching Stock
holm said that perhaps 100 generals
or high officers had been executed
Travellers to Sweden said more than
1000 persons had been arrested
through yesterday.
Can NBC broadcast from Lon
don declared Marshal Rommel
had been forced to change two
armored division commanders in
Normandy for political reasons"
The two divisional generals were
replaced, before the Thursday at
tempt on Hitlers life, by two
Juvenile political colonels, both
under 33, who have a record of
fanatical Nazi loyalty" the broad
cast saidD
A welter of rumors concerning the
attempted coup persisted, and re-
liable information was difficult to
obtain through the cloak of Nazi
secrecy.
Gestapo Watches Travellers.
indicative of this, IL Germans
reached Stockholm by plane from
Berlin today, but were put under
close watch by two Gestapo men at
tached to the German Legation.
The Germans avoided questioning
by newspapermen.
Through Switzerland came an un-
confirmed report that the Gestapo
may have slaughtered some of the
most illustrious figures in the Army
all longtime foes of the Nazi regime
These were said to include MarShals
Walther Won BrauchitSch. Karl Gerd
Won Rundstedt. Sigmund Wilhelm
List and Fritz Erich Won Mannstein
none of whom has been heard
from since Berlin announced two
days ago that Adolf Hitler had mar
roWly escaped assassination.
The Geneva newspaper La
Suisse said that Marshal Albert
keSSelring, German commander
in Italy and rival of Rommel,
was rumored to have been ar
rested on suspicion of completely
in the plot against Hitler. along
with two generals and two
colonies of his staff.
tkeSSelrlng was reported to
have attended a meeting between
Hitler and Benito Mussollni
Thursday, with his arrest follow
Ing, said the dispatch as reported
to the Office of War Information
Two reports, wholly unconfirmed
Indicated unrest in the German
Navy as we'll as the Army.
Naval Rebellion Reported.
Radio France in Algiers ouotec
reports from Basel that it was gen.
orally believed there that nava
units at kiel and Stettin had re.
belled. The BrazZaville radio re.
ported unrest among naval units
In Norwegian ports and said ar
vi SdllCu 1IlS
Association Of All German Sailors
appeared to be behind the move.
ment.
A Madrid dispatch said one report
from a German Embassy source
there indicated certain army ele.
ments had revolted in Southern
Germany and that fighting still was
continuing
DR.. Robert Ley, Na4 labor chief
declared in broadcast address this
morning to German armament
workers that the fact Hitler was
saved does not mean the battle is
won;" then added:
While German workers labor IL
and 16 hours without a Sunday or
holiday, the idiotic nobility has
nothing better to do than plot
against our Fuehrer."
Mass Arrests in Berlin.
Word emerged through Sweden of
mass arrests in Berlin with large
forces of SIS elite Guard) troops
ringing the capital and patrolling
the streets in armored cars.
While the Nazis, through various
broadcasts, claimed to have sup
pressed the revolt with at least two
OF the alleged ringleaders dead
Col. Gen. Ludwig Beck, former Chief
OF the German general staff, and
the Count Won Stauffenberg, ac-
cused by Hitler of placing the bomb
"a voice on the Frankfurt radio
wave length, purporting to be that
of an officer in the Wehrmacht, an
nounced this morning that action
Is continuing"
The speaker urged fellow officers
to offer continued armed resistance
to the Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo.
Identifying the man who paid for
his life for planting the bomb as
Col. Count Claus Won Stauffenberg.
the broadcaster declared: