FRONTIER VIOLATED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 256, 10 August 1933, Page 5

FRONTIER VIOLATED

NAZIS ENTER SWITZERLAND. ELECTRICITY WORKS SEARCHED. COMMUNIST CARETAKER. (United Press Association—Copyright). (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) GENEVA, August 9. There is indignation throughout the country regarding Storm Troops crossing the frontier near Basle, entering the Swiss Electricity Works, ostensibly to interview the German caretaker, v/ho is alleged to be a. Communist, and to search for propaganda. The Nazis persisted in entering the works despite a warning by the German police, who refused to take part. The Swiss Government is protesting to Berlin. ESCAPEE FROM CAMP SHOT. A NOBLEMAN! ARRESTED. BERLIN, August 9. Felix Fechenbach, former secretary and bodyguard to the late Heir Kurt Eisner (President of Bavaria), was shot dead when attempting to escape from the Lachau concentration camp. Count Arco-Valley, who murdered Herr Eisner in 1918, and who Fechenbach then wounded, has been arrested and charged with plotting against Herr Hitler, and has been imprisoned at Dachau. Count Anton Alfred Emil Hubert Georg von Arco-Valley was born in February, 1897, at St. Martin, in Austria. His father, Maximilian von ArcoValley, was a Bavarian officer. During the war he joined the Bavarian Infantry of the Guard, in which he became an officer. Afterwards he studied law at Munich University. Carried away by the excitement of the revolutionary epoch, he murdered the Bavarian President, Herr Kurt Eisner, by firing two revolver shots at him as he was walking from the Foreign Office to the Parliament House on February 21, 1919, to open the Diet. The count was severely injured by Eisner's companions'and in revenge for the murder two bourgeois deputies were killed and Herr Auer, a Majority Socialist Minister, wounded. Arco-Val-ley's crime is said to have been instigated by a secret organisation. The trial of the count took place in January, 1920 and lasted two days. On January 16 he was sentenced to death. Next day, however, the Bavarian Cabinet reduced the. death penalty to one of life imprisonment in a fortress because as was stated in the verdiet "the act of this youth .was due not to base motives but to a glowing love of his country" and because "the accused had admitted his guilt without any attempt at evasion or extenuation.". , On April 13, 192-1, he was released on bail. He then joined the staff of the "Bayrische Vaterlamcl." After two year's he resigned to take a post with the aviation firm, the Suddeutsche Lufthansa. When on the occasion of President Hindenburg's eightieth •birthday an amnesty was granted, the Bavarian Government included him in its list. BATHING PROHIBITED. JEWS DEBARRED FROM DANUBE. (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) MUNICH, August 9. The Town Council of Straubing has prohibited Jews from bathing in the river [Danube.