ALSACE ARREST.
Leader Of Autonomists In Custody. PLOTTING SUSPECTED. STRASBOURG, February 8. The leader of the Alsatian Autonomists, Dr. Karl Roos, has been arrested. The actual charge against him has not been disclosed. Several of Dr. Roos' followers have also been arrested. All are suspected of plotting against the State.
The arrests resulted from the discovery of compromising documents in the homes of the Autonomists.
Dr. Roos- was acquitted on a similar charge in 1928. Later he preached the Xazi gospel and supported the Munich agreement as a triumph for German nationalism, declaring that France was a small nation -without glory.
When Alsace returned to France in 1918, Dr. Roos carried on a private school at Strasbourg until 1924, in , which year he accepted the post of I education adviser to the French mining {administration in the Saar. However, he resigned in the spring of 1926. as he objected to the methods of the French I authorities. He then became active in ' the Alsatian Autonomist movement, being one of the founders of the : "Heimatbund." which demands an j Alsatian Legislature.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 33, 9 February 1939, Page 11
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