London, May 14.
HILE Herr Rudolf Hess is busy reading and writing at a military hospital somewhere between Glasgow and London, the British public are eagerly awaiting the statement promised by /Mr. Winston Churchill on what the British Prime Minister himself Ihas described as the "baffling" events, Until such an official pronouncement is made, no "further light on the strange odyssey of the number three Nazi and Hitler's ex-deputy is expected to be forthcoming.
Herr Hess himself, who awoke this morning in a hospital nearer to Lon" don than the one he was in yesterday. is making good progress towards recovery. His damaged ankle yielding to treatment and the slight brasion to his arm received in the parachute "jump is healing rapidly. He Is stated to be in excellent spirits.
Me has talked freely to Mr. Ivone Kirkpatrick, of the British Foreign Office, who went to Glasgow to) Identity him, and is understood to have conveyed the impression that he had not been having so much outdoor exerele as formerly and had been spending much time in office work.
"The only new comment from Berlin this morning confirms the very general impression "that the Deputy Fohrer's. fight must have caused great embarrassment to Hier.
The Berlin correspondent of a Swiss paper revealed today that the as-{onishment of the German public has. been increased by a succession ever-changing.omcial stories and explanations.
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