NAZI LEADER’S DEATH.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 99, 7 February 1936, Page 5

NAZI LEADER’S DEATH.

GERMANS BLAME SWITZERLAND. “LYING CAMPAIGN IN PRESS.” (United Press Association —Copyright) , LONDON, February 6. The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” says that the newspapers, while unanimously declaring that Gustloff the German subject who was shot in "Davos, Switzerland, was the victim of Marxist-Jewish hatred of a Nazi Germany regards Switzerland as partly sharing the murderer’s guilt. It is affirmed that the social demorcratic Press long carried on a lying campaign against Nazism and recently against Gustloff, in spite of official Swiss testimony as to the legality of Gustloff’s work, and the fact that ho had done nothing endangering the security of Switzerland. The hope is expressed that Switzerland will now put her house in order. Gustloff was once a hank official, and later was secretary to an observatory. He then became chief of the meteorological station at Davos. He joined the > Nazi party in 1929, became leader of . the Swiss group or foreign organisation of Nazi party, whose task was to foster Nazi propaganda among Germans abroad. There is scarcely a German colony throughout the world, which has not-a Nazi group, supervised from Berlin, but it is strictly enjoined that its poliitical activities are not to- extend beyond the German community. DEMAND FOR FULL ENQUIRY. GENEVA, February 6. A German Minister at Berlin called on the Swiss foreign minister (M. Motta) and demanded a full inquiry, particularly as to whether the murderer had 1 any accomplices. NO JEWISH PERFORMANCES. CONCERTS AND THEATRICALS. BERLIN, February 6. Ostensibly to avoid incidents' the Minister of Propaganda (Dr. Goebbelsl has banned Jewish concert and threatrical performances.