GERMAN DECREE.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20622, 11 August 1932, Page 9

GERMAN DECREE.

SUPPRESSION OF RIOTS.

DEATH PENALTY FOR POLITICAL

CRIMES

(UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION—BT ELECTRIO TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.)

BERLIN, August <J

President Hindenburg has signed an emergency decree authorising the death penalty for high treason, arson, using explosives, damaging railways, or resisting the State authorities. Anyone possessing arms during disorders in which life is lost may be shot whether he is guilty of murder or not. Special courts will try offenders, and tho verdicts may not be challenged. A minimum punishment of ten years' imprisonment is provided for anyone injuring the police or taking part in disorders. Demonstrations are prohibited during August except Constitution Day, August 11th. Incitements to violence, particularly on the part of newspapers, nre severely punishable. Further widespread outrages are reported.

POLITICAL AMBITION CHECKED. MINOR POSTS FOR NAZIS. (Received August 10th, 11.10 p.m.) LONDON, August 10. The Berlin correspondent oi ! the "News-Chronicle" says that President Hindcnburg has crushed Horr Adolf Hitler's political ambitions by vetoing his nomination as Chancellor. The President has also indicated that he sees no grounds for calling for Herr von Paper*'s resignation. He favours the continuance of the present non-Party Government, reinforced by several Hitlerite Ministers to be chosen by himself. The President's decision has increased tension among the Nazis, as they are hardly likely to accept minor Cabinet posts which, it is believed, have been placed at their disposal.