TOO MUCH HONOUR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1941, Page 5

TOO MUCH HONOUR

THAT MR CHURCHILL SHOULD INTERVIEW HESS GERMAN RESPONSIBLE FOR MANY INFAMIES. STORIES TOLD TO FARM PEOPLE. LONDON. May 15. The United Press Association lobbyist says there is a great deal of objection in Westminster to a suggestion that Mr Churchill should interview Hess, and such a meeting seems unlikely. It is argued that it would be hardly fitting to honour in such a manner this unconventional visitor who for so long has played a full part in supporting all the reprehensible institutions —the Gestapo, the concentration camps, .and the persecution of the Jews —of a country that is now warring against Britain. The tide of interest in the motive of Hess received new impetus when it was reported that he told the farm people when he landed in Scotland of the hardships that are being experienced in Germany and also of the great distress and suffering prevailing among the German people as a result of the Royal Air Force raids against the towns. Hess, according to the report, added that he made the Duke of Hamilton's estate his objective because he had valuable information to give the Duke, information which would be of great use to Britain in overthrowing the tyranny now prevailing in the Reich. Hess also said he had made most painstaking preparations for the flight from Germany. This statement is borne out by his maps, on which all the duke’s estates are ringed with a blue pencil. It is thought that he mistook a large house for the Duke’s mansion. According to Mr McLean, the ploughman who found him, Hess seemed most anxious to meet the duke. Hess’ has declared that he is fed up with the war and with life in Germany. He is stated to be both talking and writing freely as he recuperates in the military hospital. NAZI PROPAGANDISTS OVER CONDITION OF HESS. THREAT OF BIG RAID ON LONDON. (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) ZURICH, May 15. Berlin officials told foreign newspaper man that the Luftwaffe was preparing for the biggest raid yet on London. as proof that Hitler did ’not share the Hess idea about coming to peace terms with England. However all neutral correspondents report ever-increasing perplexity and bewilderment among lhe German population over the Hess flight. This has been accentuated by the many contradictory explanations circulated from Berlin. The allegation that Hess might be given drugs to make him talk is taken as an indication that the Wilhelmstrasse knows that Hess js normal, although other Berlin authorities stick to the story that he is mentally unbalanced.