FREEDOM DOOMED IN DANZIG FREE CITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 170, 20 July 1936, Page 7

FREEDOM DOOMED IN DANZIG FREE CITY.

NAZIS' ACTION. Drastic Decrees Imposed by Senate Leader. COMMISSIONER'S POSITION. United Tress Association.—Copyright. (Received 9.80 a.m.) DiVNZIG, July 19. The president of the Senate, Herr Greiser, has introduced drastic regulations to restrict individual freedom. These arc considered to be tantamount to abolition of the Constitution. Herr Greiser is expected to take action against Opposition newspapers. v One of Herr Greiser's regulations is understood to be based on an order issued in 1933, granting extraordinary powers to the Nazi Senate, which The Hague Court declared to be unconstitutional. Another decree restricts the freedom of the Opposition parties and extends the period a person may be kept in "protective custody" from three weeks to three months. The League Commissioner, Mr. Sean Lester, lias departed on a fishing expedition and is unable to take action against the regulations until the Opposition complain of injustice. The Paris newspaper "L'lntransigeant," reports that when Mr. Lester sent his secretary to telegraph a protest to the League against Herr Greiser's decrees a clerk replied that the telegram would not please Herr Forster, the Nazi leader. Accordingly, Mr. Lester was forced to motor across the frontier and send his cable from Gdynia, the port of Poland. NAZI JUSTICE. TREATMENT OF PASTORS. BERLIN, July 19. The Ministry in Charge of Church Affairs has ordered opposition pastors, who have adopted the title of "provisional leadership of the German Evangelical Church," to drop it by August 1. It is declared to be an illegal "leadership" and therefore not to have the right to make complaints. The memorandum issued by the pastors has not been published in Germany.