GERMAN ARMY CHIEF.
Military Politicians Passed Over.
ARRESTED MAYOR FREED. (Received 1.30 p.m.) BERLIN, January 3. The President, Marshal von Hindenburg, has appointed a regular soldier, not a military politician, to succeed General Hamnierstein-Equord as Com-mander-in-Chief of the Reichswehr, namely, Baron Werner von Fritsch, who was "an artillery staff officer during the Great War, after which he was a cavalry general. Herr Gustav Boess, ex-Lord Mayor of Berlin, who was arrested last April on a charge of misusing public funds for private purposes, has been released without trial.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 3, 4 January 1934, Page 7
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