Munich, Nov. 9.
'HANCELLOR Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped assassination here yesterday when a mysterious explosion wrecked the Buergerbrau Beer House in which Der Fuehrer a few minutes earlier had declared that Germany would "never capitulate" to the Allied Powers. The attempt to assassinate Herr Hitler occurred on the exact scene of the abortive Nazi putsch of 1923—less tian a half hour after the German Chancellor had addressed a meeting of the Nazi Old Guard, An official communique issued in Berlin said that eight Nazi Old Guards were killed and more than sixty wounded in the explosion. Herr Hitler escaped because he had left the beer hall for his train a few minutes earlier.
Police admitted that the blast, which shattered the beer hall cellar, had been caused by an "explosive body" and not by a defective boiler, as earlier claimed. The Berlin communique ad~ mitted the explosion was an assassination attempt against Herr Hitler.
In Berlin the Propaganda Ministry issued this statement: "Der Fuehrer arrived in Munich yesterday in con-ection with the anniversary of the Nazi Old Guard for a short visit. In the place of Rudolf Hess, who was to have spoken, Der Fuehrer himself Image the speech at the Buergerbrau, "Since affairs of Slate forced Der Fuehrer to return to the capital last night, he left the Buergerbrau sooner than ex and entered his train Which hed been held in readiness.
"*Shortly thereafter an explosion took place in the Buergerbrau cellar, killing eight Old Guards and wounding more than sixty. The attempted assassina~ tion seems to be traceable to foreign instigation and aroused fanatic indi ation in Munich. Tu order to ager: tain. the perpetrators, a reward of 506,000 Reichsmarks is offered."
The Buergerbrau cellar where Herr Hitler spoke was shattered by the mysterious explosion 27 minutes after Herr Hitler lett for his train abe of schedule.
Here Hitler addressed the crowded beer cellar from a small stage at one end of the room. Nazi Old Guards crowded the room and the balcony surrounding the room on three sides. The Minister of Propaganda, Dr. IZoseph Goebbels, was among the Nazis, present when Herr Hitler spoke.
Today's parade by Old Guards from the beer cellar to the monument to the sixteen Nazis who died in the 1923 putsch has been cancelled because of Yesterday's assassination attempt on Herr Hitter.
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