MURDERED HOSTAGES.
BAVARIAN REVOLUTIONARIES. IMPLICATED IN FOUL CRIMES. (Received 10.25 a.m.) 15ERL1X, September 1C At the investigation nf the murders of hostages at Munich the evidence giver. implicated several Communist leaders who at a secret conference discussed the preliminaries of the assassinations. When the Communists were hard pressed I.evicn, the leader of the revolutionaries, produced a document bearing the names of the Countess Westrap and the Prince of Thurn and Taxis, declaring: "We must have renr cover. If our business goe3 badly a couple of hostages must suffer." Herr Egelhojer stamped the document ordering- their death, which was sent to Uaussman to execute.— ("Times.")
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 221, 17 September 1919, Page 7
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