HUNTED OFF THE AIR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1943, Page 4

HUNTED OFF THE AIR

BY FEAR OF R.A.F. RAIDS

BIRTHDAY GREETINGS TO HITLER.

GHOST VOICE GIVES GERMANS GOOD ADVICE. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.15 aim.) LONDON, April 20. German radio stations suddenly went off the air last night as Goebbels was giving fulsome birthday greetings to Hitler. It is believed that a R.A.F. raid was feared, but there was no largescale air attack on Germany last night. Goebbels had scarcely begun when the stations closed.

The Berlin radio had just announced that Hitler was listening to the greetings from Berchtesgaden. A ghost voice calling on the German people to throw out Hitler and the Nazi gang broke into the Berlin radio’s rebroadcast of birthday greetings to Hitler today, says an Associated Press correspondent. The Berlin radio repeated Goering’s and Goebbels’s speeches, declaring: “Every German thinks more and more of our beloved Fuehrer.”

The ghost voice cut in: “Hitler’s henchmen have been in power too long. German people awake! The time has come to finish with the Nazi gang. Down with Hitler and his gang! With the days of Hitler’s downfall the war will end. Five hundred thousand people have been made homeless by British raids. These raids won’t stop. They will increase. Germans, whom do you want to suffer?”

“MUTUAL CONFIDENCE”

HITLER AND QUISLING.

FUEHRER’S “HEADQUARTERS” AT BERCHTESGADEN.

(Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 20.

Hitler received Quisling at his headquarters. A communique reported a long conversation upon the European battle for existence “held in an atmosphere of complete mutual confidence. An unshakeable determination was expressed to stand together in the struggle for continuance of European culture and freedom of the individual life of the European nations and the great Teutonic struggle will be continued by mobilising all forces until complete elimination of the Bolshevik and plutocratic menace is victoriously concluded.”

Terboven and Himmler participated in the conversations. The British United Press points out that the pictures published in German newspapers, showing Hitler's recent similar meetings with heads of European States, reveal that “Hitler’s headquarters” are actually at Berchtesgaden.-

HITLER’S FACE

FOOLISH TALK IN BERLIN. (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 20. “I found an immense change in Hitler’s face,” said Professor Von Durzaeil, who recently completed the Fuehrer’s portrait, broadcasting over the Berlin radio. “I always endeavoured to show in my portraits that it was the Fuehrer alone who holds our destiny in his head and hands.”

A radio announcer added that the portrait shows the deep changes visible in Hitler’s face, which Goebbels mentioned last night. His features now show hardness, but determination, and especially reflect his anxiety for the German people and for all mankind.”