DARING RESCUE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 156, 13 April 1928, Page 5

DARING RESCUE.

GERMAN political prisoner. COURT OFFICIALS HELD UP. BERLIN, April 11. Eight heavily-armed Communists stormed a police station in the Moabit quarter, striking two resisting officers 1 with rubber truncheons. * They liberated the writer, Otto ’ Braun, who was under arrest on a charge of high treason. The raiders escaped in a motor, except one, who i-efuses to give information. Otto Braun’s fiancee, Olga Benario, planned his escape. Benario is the daughter of a Munich lawyer, and left her home in 1926 to. follow Communist ideals. She was recently employed by the Russian Trade Delegation, but was discharged last week. She was permitted to see Braun for a few minutes daily, and to bring him newspapers, food, and flowers. The interviews always took place in the Judge’s room, under the Judge’s eye. The escape was fixed

for Braun’s last appearance at Moabit Court, as the preparatory evidence was completed, pending his removal for trial at Leipzig. Braun and five others are charged with revolutionary schemes, with being in possession of incriminating literature, and with spreading disaffection in the Reichswehr and navy. The raiders stormed the office, and held revolvers at the Judge’s and warder’s heads, while Braun and Benario fled. Hundreds were present in Court and witnessed the incident.—“ The Times” cables.