SEVERAL KILLED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 29, 4 February 1933, Page 9

SEVERAL KILLED.

GERMAN DISORDERS.

Woman Shot on Refusing to

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NAZI LEADER'S FUNERAL. ("Times" Cables.) (Received 2 p.m.) . BERLIN, February 3. Several were killed and scores wounded during political disorders in various cities and towns in the last 24 hours. The toll included a working-class woman, who was shot dead in Duisberg because slie disobeyed the Nazis' orders, shouted in the street, that all windows sho ild be closed. Herr Maikowski, leader of "Storm Detachment No. 33," who was shot last week, was honoured by a cathedral funeral during which the neighbourhood was closely guarded by police. Searchlights played on the windows, and the order to keep them closed was enforced by rifle muzzles pointed upwards. Herr Maikowski confessed to shooting a workman during his detachment's attack on a Communist meeting, for which he was pardoned by amnesty at Christmas. The German Government, in addition to forbidding outdoor demonstrations, has ordered the strictest control of indoor meetings of Communists. The house of Herr Liebkneckt and other Communist premises were raided and documents were seized. Several members of the police force have been suspended as the result of an investigation. The Homburg riot was attributed at first to Communists. A number of policemen and Nazis were killed o,r wounded. Now it appears that the trouble arose out of a Na2i attack on a Socialist newspaper office. Herr Hitler has foreshadowed action to prevent "crank" parties from nominating candidates for the coming election and so splitting votes.