PROTESTS MADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 242, 13 October 1933, Page 7

PROTESTS MADE.

AMERICA AND BRITAIN.

Nationals Molested by Brown Shirts. RELIEF OF JEWISH REFUGEES. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 11.30 a.m.) GENEVA, October 12. The American Ambassador has received instructions from Washington to make energetic representations regarding molestation by Brown Shirts of Americans who fail to salute the Nazi Hag. lie will state that the United Stales is not satisfied with apologies, which are always forthcoming, but insists on the assailants being punished and the nature of the punishment communicated to him. The British Embassy has protested in writing against the assault of a naturalised Englishman, Heir Koenig. Messages from Geneva state that the Council of the League of Nations probably will appoint a governing board to direct ■Jewish work this week, but the appointment of a High Commissioner depends upon the discovery of a suitable candidate willing to accept the post. Viscount Cecil's name is mentioned.

A German delegate, Herr von Kerler refrained from voting on the resolution of the Council to nominate a High Commissioner to direct Jewish refugee work, but. this did not prevent the adoption of the resolution. The work, therefore, will proceed.

The German delegation voted against a section of the Minority Committee's resolution advocating favourable treatment of Jews. The remainder of the resolution, which was adopted, merely involves the pious hope that Statss will treat minorities with moderate decency.

ACCUSED EXPELLED. Strange Procedure at Reich Fire Trial. LAWYERS ENTER PROTEST. BERLIN, October 12. The trial was resumed to-day in the Reichstag of the five men accused of setting fire to the building on the night of February 27, namely, the Dutchman, Van der Lnbbe, Herr Torgler, a former Communist deputy, and three Bulgarians —Popoff, Dimitroff and Taneff. Immediately the Court assembled Dimitroff, ignoring the judge's orders, endeavoured to put questions. Thereupon he was excluded until further notice. Tho five American, Bulgarian and French lawyers who are attending the trial protested to the president of the Court against the exclusion of Dimitroff." They emphasised that Pojioff and Taneff understood little or no German, ancl that the proceedings, strangely enough, were not being translated, also that none of the foreign defendants was represented by a lawyer of his own choosing. Consequently, said the lawyers, Dimitroff was both defendant and lawyer. His lack of knowledge of German procedure brought him into conflict with the Court, and his exclusion meant that he would not receive a fair trial. If the Bulgarians were found guilty it would be impossible to the world of the objectivity and impartiality of German justice.

CRIME TO FLIRT. NEW GERMAN PENAL CODE. BERLIN, October 7. Flirtations by married men with women is a crime under the new penal code. The sanctity of marriage, motherhood, and the family will be protected. Words, pictures, and writings belittling marriage are illegal. The correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" in Berlin even declares that sexual relations between Germa-n and "foreign" persons shall be considered race-treason, a penal offence. An AryanJewisli marriage shall be dissolved on the petition of the Aryan partner, even if the latter was aware before marriage that the other was Jewish. Under the new code, doctors will be allowed to kill people suffering from certain incurable diseases. Legal sanction will also be given to duelling to settle affairs of honour, but, if the duel ends fatally, the slayer will be liable to punishment. Bandits and torturers of animals, will be flogged, and the memory of great Germans is to be protected from insult. INVITED TO AUSTRIA. AUSTRALIANS WELCOME. GENEVA, October 5. Smoking at his rate of 120 cigarettes a day, after his dramatic address to the League Assembly, the Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Dollfuss, extended a welcome to Australians to visit Austria. "We're thousands of miles apart," said the little man, between puffs and sips, "yet our seats adjoin at the League. We rub shoulders here, and European and American papers are continually misprinting: Austria for Australia —and vice versa.'*

Dr. Dollfuss and the other Austrian delegates stay at the same hotel as do Mr. Bruce and his colleagues, and the latter have been impressed by the energy with which the Chancellor works.