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...evacuate the whole Shanghai peninsula and this week the evacuation began while jubilant Japanese pounced without resistance upon sectors which for three months have been bitterly contested. The chief technical advisers of the Chinese G. H. Q. are German officers who during the World War served under Ludendorff and Hindenburg. Last week Colonel E. Ott, Military Attache of the German Embassy at Tokyo, had come to Shanghai and was perspiringly explaining to vexed Japanese staff officers how it happens that Adolf Hitler, friend and pact-maker against Communism with Japan though he is (see p. 23), has not pulled...
...largest manufacturing building in Europe is the so-called Hindenburg Hall of the Krupp Works at Essen, measuring 1,000 feet square. In it 7,000 men were employed during the War making artillery, today 3,500 fill it building locomotives. No women are allowed in the Krupp Works-not even the Duchess of Windsor...
...Berlin acrid yellowish smoke billowed last week around the Hindenburg Palace in which visiting Benito Mussolini was to be a guest. Bombing planes chased by pursuit ships streaked across the sky, anti-aircraft guns chattered, the entire Wilhelmstrasse quarter of government buildings disappeared in the thick smoke of fake bombs, and subject to severe fines was any citizen of Berlin who did not dive like a rabbit into the bombproof shelter nearest him. Black streamers were plastered about liberally to indicate "DESTRUCTION" and afternoon papers spoke of the bombing fleet as "RED." Thus last week German minds were prepared...
...Berlin's whole teeming proletariat had turned out for a holiday "with pay," proceeded to obey exhortations from Dr. Goebbels to cheer themselves hoarse. Through Berlin streets rode the Dictators, and II Duce was installed as, reportedly, "the first occupant" of the President's rooms in the Hindenburg Palace since "the old gentleman's" death...
ZEPPELIN-Captain Ernst A. Lehmann-Longmans, Green ($3). History of lighter-than-air craft by the commander of the ill-fated Hindenburg. Foreword and final chapter by Commander Charles E. Rosendahl describe the disaster. Well illustrated...