NOT POLITICAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 98, 6 February 1936, Page 5

NOT POLITICAL

MURDER OF GERMAN NAZI.

FRANKFURTER’S ONE REGRET

BETTER HAD BULLETS STRUCK HITLER.

United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) BERNE, February 5. David Frankfurter, the Jugoslavian who shot elead Wilhelm Gustloff, a German subject and leader of Swiss Nazis, at Davos, is reported to.be a Jew. Abandoning liis hat. he ran to the police station, brandishing a re-, volver at a passer-by who tried to stop him. He told the police that he had never mixed in politics, and had, no motive except resentment against the German system. Gustloff is reported, to have abused Swiss hospitality, conspiring to recapture German refugees. Frankfurter insists that he had no personal reasons for shooting Gustloff. He was not inspired by any organisation. He added that it would have, been better had the bullets . struck Hitler.

It is disclosed that Frankfurter is suffering'from an incurable bone dis-. ease, and was recently told an operation was necessary,... He told his landlady he did hot consider life worth living in the circumstances. Frankfurter told the police that he killed Gustloff because he was poisoning the atmosphere of Switzerland with propaganda, from a country where Jews were not allowed to lead a normal life.

Whjle all Switzerland is shocked at the crime some trouble has long been feared as a result of" the Nazi persecution of Jews.

HERR HITLER’S CONDOLENCES. ANTI-JEWISH PROPAGANDA. BERLIN, February 5. Herr Hitler has telegraphed his condolences to the widow of Wilhelm Gustloff. Herr Hitler said: “The abominable crime which ended the life of a true German has caused the deepest indignation throughout the nation.” Nazi leaders andi. newspapers are using the murder for more intensive antiJewish propaganda. “Volkischer Beobaehter” says: “If the Nazi attitude toward the Jews needed any justification this shameful act has supplied it.” It adds: “This murder was made possible only by. the atmosphere of hatred and envy of Germany created by the Jews.” Herr Hitler’s deputy (Herr Rudolf Hess) also telegraphed to Gustloff s widow, referring to her husband 1 as ono of Heir Hitler’s oldest supporters. VENGEANCE FOR JEWISH RACE, LONDON, February 4. The Baule correspondent says that he frankly told the police that Ins crime was an act of vengeance for the Jewish race.