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Show fll MUM ESSMS Ml HMT; Friends Greet Nazi Chief After Brash With Death Press Hints Britaiii i "I nst igatl&tt em pt On Fuehrer's Life- 1 ,;, L ma mi wmi mnS i is asf.s i lii " .n-" . Explosion in Munich Beer Cellar Heaps Debris on Spot Where German Leader Stood at Reunion; Schedule Change Foils Plot BERLIN, Nov. t (UF) Heinrich' Hlmmler, chief of German police, announced tonight that the trail of the Munich bombers leads to a foreign country. By FREDERICK C. OECHSNEB BERLIN, Nov. (UP) The German secret police, today began great roundup of respects In the bombing that wrecked the shrine of naxlisra only 10 minute after Adolf Hitler and other high party leaders had left it last night. "It may be assumed that many suspects and criminals have been detained for questioning." an authorized source said. The German press assorted that Great Britain was at least psychologically responsible for the time bomb that killed seven persons and sent a 10-foot pile of wreckage crashing Into the Munich beer eeUar where Hitler In U23 attempted" 4 uniuo- T .. . w . Attociated Prett RadiopKoto, "' . FUEHRER GUARDED AS HE RETURNS TO BERLIN AFTER ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION Scene as Adolf Hitler, center, arrived in capital this morning from Munich; Hermann Goering is right center - cesriul putsch. . Under screaming headlines, newspapers news-papers wrote of "the wtck attempt" and "Britain's ge neral attack at-tack on the German people." Th said thj declarations of BrltUlt statesmen that Hltltrism must be destroyed "prepared the. atmosphere" atmo-sphere" for the plot and they hint-, ed at retaliation against Britain. , Accuse British Agents .Soma hazta went further and expressed belief that the British . secret service directly engineered the bombing. A reward of $240,000 was offered for arrest of the bombers and the secret police under Heinrich Hlmmler set up a special commie-slon commie-slon to direct the Investigation. Observers believed the Gestapo would bring in all persons whose past political activities have caused suspicion, as well as all known criminals who might have been la the vicinity of Munich, An official statement said It was "only a miracle" that Hitler and other high nasi leaders escaped. If the schedule of other years' nasi anniversary celebrations in the Munich beer cellar had been fol- . lowed. Hitler would have been speaking when the explosion occurred In the attic above. , Narrowly Escape Death Hitler and party leaders such as Rudolf Hess, Joseph Goebbels, Alfred Al-fred Rosenberg, Wilhelm Frick, and Robert Ley would have been caught In the crash of wreckage. But this time the schedule waa changed. Hitler was boarding his train for Berlin when the bomb exploded. The ether leaders were at the station seeing him off. So the victims were comparatively minor persons, all residents of Munich or vicinity. Hitler wss safe back In his Berlin Ber-lin chancellery today. Guards there were strengthened and almost every visitor there was searched. "Mountains of telegrams," as one (Continual on Pin Two) (Column Ooo) r Death Waited Here Dot Missed Der Fuehrer j I!AZI SECRET POLICE R0UKDi;:G UP SUSPECTS AFTER HIRER ESCAPES DEATH III BOE6 ' -- .... .-, - Mrr , - - - , . -' . - ' a, ' 1- ; 'CCaaUeutd Tnm Fse Om) attach put It, poured into tha chancellery, congratulating the fuehrer an his escape. There were messages from many rulers and foreign officials. Including King Carol of Rumania, King Victor Emanuel and Premier Benito Mussolini Mus-solini of Italy, and Queen Wllhel-mina Wllhel-mina of Holland. Many flowers also were sent to the chancellery. Hitler, Goering Confer ' Officials said Hitler carried through his usual daily program. Including conferences with his second sec-ond in command, Hermann Goering, Goer-ing, and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Alexander Kirk, American charge d'affaires, was among th many foreign diplomats who called at the chancellery during th day and signed the guest book. He did not see Hitler. Th official revised list of the dead follows: Michael Wilhelm Kaler, SO, merchant; mer-chant; captain in naxt motor corps and holder of th so-called "blood order" given to participants ln the 1923 putsch. Franz Lutx, 53, holder of the "blood-eiud" and member of -the-rlglnal company of brown shirt terra troops. Emit Kasberger, 54, local nasi fftclal ln Munich. Zugen Schachta, 32, oldest member mem-ber of nazi motor propaganda unit. Wilhelm Weber, 37, radio speaker Bft travelling propaganda unit. Leonhard Reindl, 57, office clerk. can reach had been attested ust on year ago . when Hsrschel Grynazpan, a young Jew. killed the young German diplomat, Ernst vom Rath, In Paris. Th government govern-ment fined German Jews $400,-000.000, $400,-000.000, which Is still being collected col-lected with a 25 per cent levy on them all. m Th British, however, got most of the blame for th bombing, though th Jews were mentioned. Nazis were certain the bomb was meant for Hitler, because, one spokesman said, "The old guards In the hall could hardly have been the target." But they were amazed that such an explosion could have occurred anywhere near Hitler. , Hitler Closely Gaarded Sine th beginning oj the war, the eternal vigilance , for th fuehrer's safety has been strengthened strength-ened considerably. Everywhere he goes, he Is preceded pre-ceded by a squad of secret polios and "security service" troops who search minutely the places he will be. In every gathering there Is a strong force of local storm troopers and secret police. When he enters meeting halls for demonstrations, dem-onstrations, the main aisles ar lined by storm troopers standing shoulder to shoulder. When he travels ln his car he is accompanied accom-panied by three cars of picked bodyguards with submachine guns. Yet, in spit of these precautions, precau-tions, someone came within minutes min-utes of bombing him and missed only because he had left the hall earlier than he had been expected ex-pected to. Ideal for Assassin From th standpoint of an antl-nazl antl-nazl assassin, it was an Ideal opportunity. op-portunity. Seldom are so many high nazi officials congregated In one room. Nowhere could the assassination as-sassination of Hitler have had a more Ironical locale than the old cellar where he plotted his rise to power, and from which he and 1000 of his brown-shlrted followers marched 16 years ago today to fact th fir of th loyal German police, po-lice, who killed It of the first nszis In one barrage and wounded Hitler slightly in the head. The bombing Itself was a sacrilege sacri-lege to the nazi shrine a room 150 by 80 feet, adorned with nazi trophies and bearing a hole in the celling made by Hitler's bullet when he rushed In 16 years ago last night, fired his revolver among the reek of smoke and beer, and shouted: "The revolution Is on." -Associated Press RadiopKoto. ADOLF HITLER, ON ROSTRUM, SALUTES BROWN SHIRTS AT MUNICH A few minutes after he left tha beer hall, blast from abov killed ven Maria Henle, 30, cashier ln the j beer cellar. Blast Injures SI The official list of th Injured totaled 63. Some of them were ln critical condition. Questioned about those arrests, officials said the number or nature could not be divulged "for legal and political reasons." They denied vehemently a report broadcast this morning by the French radio station at Strasbourg tht the Gestapo had planned the explosion In order to kill off some radical members of the nazi party. "We can only describe the story as criminal," a spokesman said. "The fact that Strasbourg described de-scribed the report as emanating from Amsterdam by way of Berlin Ber-lin we regard as an Insult to Th Netherlands' flag and honor." Hitler Does Net Appear A crowd of several hundred stood ln a drizzling rain outside the chancellery but Hitler did not appear. He had reached the chancellery at 10:30 a. m. arter an all-night train ride from Munich. He had been spared the sight of the explosion ex-plosion that brought down the ceil-frig ceil-frig on a screaming mass of men and women who had been helping him celebrate the sixteenth anniversary anni-versary of his beer hall "putsch." The force of the explosion had even torn out and destroyed some of the heavy celling Joists and left the nazi shrine in ruins. An unprecedented furor swept the country through the night, and government-controlled newspapers hinted that the bombing would signal an Intensified warfare on Great Britain. The papers blamed th British secret service for instigating insti-gating the bombing and promised "merciless punishment" for the perpetrators. Expect N Mercy Official quarters, asked whether general police measures would b sharpened, referred questioners to morning newspapers which castigated casti-gated Britain and said enemies of the stat could expect no more mercy. There had been 1500 persons In and around the old beer hall, where Hitler fomented his abortive abor-tive putsch 16 years ago last night. The blast sent the roof and th gallery crashing . down to the floor where Hitler had stood only a few minutes before. It was heard for blocks. Police cordoned off the whole area while dead and wounded were carried away In ambulances. The city was "blacked out" as an air raid precaution at the time. Also ia the bombers' favor was the location. The Buergerbrad - the cellar la part of a rambling ram-bling block ef old warehouses and apartment buildings, honeycombed with passages and exits, a locale mad to order for an assassin. BUU Collecting Fin The heights to which nazi rage |