ANOTHER OUTRAGE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 151, 7 April 1933, Page 5

ANOTHER OUTRAGE

OUTSIDE GERMAN TERRITORY. FOUR JEWS LOSE THEIR LIVES. SEVEN GUNMEN IMPLICATED. (United Press Association—Copyriglit). (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) BERLIN, April 6. Another outrage against German Jews outside German territory is reported at Gaslei, Liechtenstein. Two brothers Alfred and Fritz Rother, - formerly leading theatre managers in Berlin, were walking with Alfred’s wife and Frau Wolf, when seven young gunmen stopped them and tried to drag them to a waiting motorcar. Alfred and the women struggled free and jumped down a ravine in their effort to escape. Frau Wolf was found injured, the other two being dead. In the meantime the kidnappers secured Fritz and drove furiously toward tho Austrian Tyrol. At Triesenberg Fritz leapt from the car and fractured his skull. The police stopped the car at the Tyrol and arrested the occupants, who were imprisoned at Felkdireh. DEATH PENALTY PROVIDED. ACTS OF POLITICAL TERRORISM. BERLIN, April 5. With the Jewish boycott receding into the background, other steps for the protection of the national interests are coming into view. Cabinet has promulgated a new law providing the death penalty for acts of political sabotage of public utilities. The issue of visas has been made stricter in order to prevent the departure of citizens suspected of activities detrimental to the State, such as the dissemination of false reports. Captain Goering has issued a decree stating that owing to the overcrowding of the professions, foreigners will be debarred from practising medicine, chemistry or dentistry. JEWS COMMIT SUICIDE. LONDON, April 5 ; The Berlin correspondent of “The Times”. states that, in addition to the suicides of a Jewish judge, and two lawyers, Herr Bettmann, a young assessor who was discharged by the Heidelberg Law Courts, went to ids home, where he saw a warning attached to his father’s door. lie walked to the cemetery and shot himself. He left a letter'in which he expressed the hope that the sacrifice would not lie m vain.