Information, said today that the arrival' of Herr Hess in this country showed the first breach in the Nazi parly since Hitler murdered a huge loc of his own followers during the purge in June' 1994, Mr, Cooper added:—'Here is a man' who, with all the advantages that te must have been enjoying in Germany, yet preferred to leave that unhappy and miserable country and fly, at tremendous risk to himself, in order to land on. what is still a country, of the sree.
"chat" asserted Mr, Coopers, "is good, news, and it comes at a good time, Marr Hess's flight is presumed in London to have been the result. of disagreement with other prominent Nazis, and possibly natural and bearable revulsion towards other members of the party.
"The opinion in some circles ig that Hess's fight shows that the core of why he gave a false mame when he first landed, though possibly there was some imis-'Hess was in uniform, thought that Hess plotted his to Scotland, because he be-Heved it was the Safest in view of possible air operations over England, Yank among the war's most amazing events. Both Mr. A. Dull-Cooper and Sir Walter Monckion, the Direc-for-General, were present when an oticer read! the official dramatic story of Herr Hess's extraordinary arrival.
Official Announcement The Foreim: Ofc announcement made. yesterday "evening fetlows: "On the night of Saturday, May 10, Messerschmitt-110 was reported by our patrols to have crossed the coast of Scotland and to be fying in. the direction of Glasgow. Since the Messerschmitt would not have fuel enough to return to Germany this re-ort was at first disbelieved.
"Later "on a. Messerschmitt-110 crashed near Glasgow with its guns unloaded. Shortly afterwards a German officer, who had baled out, was found with "his parachute in the neighbourhood suffering' from a broken ankle. He was taken to a hospital in Glasgow where he at dust ave his name as Horn, but later Aeclared he-was Herr Rudolf Hess "He brought with him various photographs. of himself at different ges apparently in order fo extabich deemed to' be photographs of Herr ntly. These raphis were
Hess by several people who knew him personally.
"Accordingly an oticer of the Foreign Office, who was closely aequaintfed with Herr Hess before the War, has been sent by aeroplane to to see him in the hospital".
The official "announcement of the National Sociatist Party broadcast by the "German" news agency states, "Party member Herr" Rudolf Hess, who owing to his suffering from an Miness of many years, standing was strictly forbidden by the Fuhrer to embark upon any further fying. ae-Livity recently again was able, con. {rary to orders, to get possession of an_ aeroplane, Saturday, May 10 at about 6: pin, "Herr Rudolf Hess again set off 1, 1939 on the day of the German ona flight from Augsburg, from thvasion of Poland, Not on Mission It can be stated definitely that Hess isnot on a mission and does not carry 4 message from anyone to anyone. The possibility that, the episode isn ed "by the "German radio towards ess, 'Mr. Ivone Kirkpatrick, who was at the British embassy in' Berlin from 1033 to 1938 and was closely acquaint ed with Herr Hess, had no difficulty at all in identifying'him when he saw the Nazi leader last night, Except for an injury to his leg, doctors who saw" Herr Hess found him sane and healthy..In this connection it is recalled that the German oMeial piloted alone aeroplane for a distance of about 800 miles, and apparently baled out from his single-seater machine when run—ning short of petrol.
Until recently he had ployed a prominent part in German life. and was one of the principal speakers Hitler's birthday celebrations April 20.
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