ACTION AGAINST COMMUNISTS.
RAIDS CARRIED OUT IN GERMANY. POLICE SUSPENDED AS RESULT OF A RIOT. (UNITED MKSft ASSOCIATION— M BUBCTBIO TELZOXAFH.—COPTBIGHT.I (Received February 3, 8.50 p.m.) BERLIN. February 3. The Government, besides forbidding outdoor Tlemonsti'ivtions, has ordered the strictest control of indoor Communist meetings. The house of Kerr Karl Liebknecht and other Communist premises were raided, and documents wci'o seized. Sevora' policemen have been suspended us a result of an investigation into the Homburg riot, which was at first attributed to Communists, and during which policemen and Nazis wcro killed and wounded. It now appears that the trouble arose out of a Nazi attack on a Socialist newspaper office. Hen- Adolf Hitler foreshadowed action to prevent eccentric parties nominating candidates and splitting votes. [Karl Liobknecbt, with Rosa Luxemburg, led the group which broke away from the Gorman Socialist Party during the war, and which later became tlio Communist Party. With her. too. be founded "Roto Fahne," the official oi-enn of the partv. of which he is still editor. He was imprisoned recently.]
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20772, 4 February 1933, Page 15
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