NAZI RULE ATTACKED BY U.S. MAGISTRATE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 212, 7 September 1935, Page 9

NAZI RULE ATTACKED BY U.S. MAGISTRATE.

BREMEN RIOT ECHO. German Liner Described As "Pirate Ship." RETURN TO BARBARISM. (United I'.A.—Electric Telegraph— I Copyright) (Received 2 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 0. Further complications arising out of the anti-Nazi riot held on a New York quay and on the German liner Bremen by 3000 Communists and others on July 2 are expected from the action of a city magistrate, Louis Brodskv, who to-day discharged Jive men alleged to have been members of the riot group. He declared that their actions did not constitute unlawful assembly. Mr. Brodsky, who is of Jewish faith, bitterly attacked the Hitler regime, and referred to the steamer Bremen as a "pirate ship with the black flag of piracy proudly flying aloft." He coifluded by saying it was his opinion that the Nazi emblem stood for "a revolt against civilisation—in brief, if I may borrow a biological concept, an atavistic throwback to pre-medieval, if not barbaric, social and political conditions." The lawyer defending the prisoners was the United States Congressman, Mr. Marc Antonio. As the German Government had asked for strict punishment of the rioters, the question is now asked what action the German Embassy is likely to take.