DISTURBANCES IN HANOVER

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 129, 16 March 1950, Page 5

DISTURBANCES IN HANOVER

Sequel To Trial By British LONDON, March 15. The Hanover correspondent of the “Daily Herald” says that antiBritish disturbances broke out yesterday after a British military court had convicted two Communist journalists and confiscated the plant of the local Communist newspaper, “Truth.” Hundreds of angry party members gathered in the street outside the newspaper office carrying banners and snouting “Shame to the occupying Power.” British public safety officers led by Colonel W. T. Whitham were refused admittance to the building, and demonstrators tried to hold them A riot squad of German police cleared the street and made about 20 arrests. The German owners of the plant demanded a written order of confiscation, which the British officers agreed to provide as they left, but in spite of the Court’s order the printing press began‘ to turn with to-morrow’s issue. The trial related to the publication of an article which urged the sabotage of dismantling operations at the former Hermann Goering steel works. The author, August, Hollaender, was sentenced to IS months’ imprisonment, the sentence to be suspended after six months, and the chief editor, Sterzenbach, to 12 months’ imprisonment, the sentence to be suspended after three months. Both are on bail pending a review of the sentences by the Appeal Court.