NAZI MURDER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 82, 7 April 1933, Page 7

NAZI MURDER.

OUTSIDE GERMANY. STREET OUTRAGE. Man and Woman Jump to Death To Escape Capture. POUR DEAD IN OUTRAGE. _____ (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 11.30 a.m.") BERLIN, April 6. There was another outrage against German Jews outside German territory at Gaslei, in Leichtenstein. Two brothers, Alfred and Fritz Rotter, formerly leading theatre managers in Berlin, were walking with Alfred's wife and Frau Wolf when seven young gunmen stopped them and tried to drag them to a waiting motor car. Alfred and the women struggled free and jumped down a ravine in an effort to escape. Frau Wolf was found injured and the other two dead. Meantime the kidnappers secured Fritz and drove furiously towards the Austrian Tyrol. Fritz, at Triesenberg, leapt from the car and fractured his skull. Police stopped the car in the Tyrol and arrested the occupants, who were gaoled at Feldkirch. A Basle message states that 3000 Jews arrived from Germany in the past few days. The majority are prosperous business people, who tell stories of persecution. Many proceeded to France.

From Amsterdam it is reported that 1500 Jews arrived from Germany yesterday. Many of them were on foot, being unable to pay their railway fare. Boycott Receding. The boycott of Jews in Germany is receding into the background, but other steps for the protection of national interests are coming into view. The Cabinet has promulgated a new law providing the death penalty for acts of political terrorism, including arson and sabotage of public utilities.The issue of visas has heen made stricter to prevent the departure of citizens suspected of activities detrimental to the State, such as the dissemination of false reports. The Controller of Police, Captain Goering, has decreed that, owing to the overcrowding of the professions, foreigners will be debarred from practising medicine, chemistry or dentistry. The Berlin correspondent of "The Times" records the suicides of a Jewish judge and two lawyers. In addition, he says, Herr Bettmann, a young assessor, who was discharged from the Heidelberg Law Courts, went home and saw a warning attached to the door of his father's house. He •walked to a cemetery and shot himself. Deceased left a letter saying he hoped his sacrifice would not be in vain.