FANTASTIC PLIGHT.
Nazi Business Men Liable to
Be Beheaded.
COMPLEX CURRENCY LAWS. (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON", December 7. The "Daily Telegraph" Hamburg correspondent says that the series of ane-sts of leading merchants during the past three moirths has perturbed the business community. Many directors of important firms have been taken into custody and charged with violating the complicated currency regulations. General Goering, Minister of Economics, ordered an independent investigation. It was hoped the cases would be settled out of Court, but tlie Chamber of Commerce protested. Hie Nazi Governor, Herr Kauffmann, apparently alleged that the offences were merely technical, while the arrests were damaging the credit of leading firms. The situation is fantastic, as those arrested are technically liable to be decapitated for economic sabotage under General Goering's own law.
Herr Lademann, member of Emden and Sons, a most esteemed mercantile firm, committed suicide in gaol.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 291, 8 December 1937, Page 7
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