DUMPED OUT OF GAOL.
Conscientious Objection To Freedom. COMMUNIST " KINK." iAustralian and N.Z. Press Association. I BERLIN, July 19. An amusing situation resulted from the Amnesty Act recently passed by the Reichstag. A number of Communists refused to be released and had to be carried from the Sonnenburg gaol on stretchers. They had no preference for gaol, but they struck because freedom was not granted to their leaderhero, Max Hoelz, whose life-sentence for murder had merely been reduced to seven years' imprisonment. Hoelz stirred up a revolution on a small scale in the gaol. The Communists indulged in a hunger-strike and sang in chorus the "International" at all hours of the day and night. Eventually the authorities strapped the men on stretchers and dumped them outside the gaol. Two hundred other prisoners to be released under the amnesty are hunger-striking at Brandenburg gaol. As forcible feeding is impossible, jugs of milk have been left in their cells.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 170, 20 July 1928, Page 7
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