NAZI HERESY HUNT.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20918, 27 July 1933, Page 9

NAZI HERESY HUNT.

——♦ ALL TRAFFIC HELD IT. MANY ARRESTS MADE. I I'M 11 ZD I'll ESS AS.SOCUTI'A Itr JLtCiP.IO TELEGRAPH —COrVRTC-D r.> ! BERLIN. July 25. One o! the greatest traffic stoppages in history lasted 40 minutes from noon to-day. The police ordered all traffic on main-Jinc railways and motor roads to halt in order that trains and other vehicles might be searched. They hoped in this way to catch numerous foreign and German radicals for whom they have long been searching. The official explanation ol the hold-up of travellers in Germany is that Communist machinations against the Government are still evident everywhere, and couriers of organisations hostile to tho state are moving about freely. No details of those arrested are issued, but the number is believed to be considerable. The police arrested 200 at Stuttgart, because it was suspected that they intended to circulate prohibited pamphlets and create disorder at an athletic : iestival. ' At Bre.slau the police had a re- j volver duel with Communists, who wore affixing posters to walls. I The Communists were arrested. THOROUGH SEARCH. I INCRIMINATING DOCU- ! MENTS WANTED. ! ARMY OF POLICE AM) HROWN | • SHIRTS. ! i (Received July 20, 7.10 p.m.) i LONDON, July 26. : The Berlin correspondent of the; "News-Chronicle" says that the j Nazis effected the biggest hold-up; in history without a hitch. Hun- j dreds of thousands of motors and | thousands of trains were stopped on ' the stroke of 12 o'clock and allowed ; to proceed punctually at 12.40. In j t lie meantime the occupants had I been compelled to leave the | vehicles and submit to an inspec- 1 tion of letters and other personal documents. Fashionable women riding in taxis were indignant when they were forced to disclose the 1 contents of their handbags and sub-1 mit to a perusal of their correspondence. The search was extremely thorough, mats and cushions being removed, panelling unscrewed, and mechanical parts inspected. Even spare tyres were opened in the search for subversive literature. Unprecedented traffic jams occurred I in large cities. Thousands of ex- i cited people were imprisoned in J railway stations until the police, assisted by an army of Brown Shirts, examined all their luggage.

POLICE SATISFIED. FORHIDDEN LITERATURE FOUND. (Received July 26, 11.55 p.m.) BERLIN, July 25. The police describe the transport search as a satisfactory success. Several for whose arrests warrants had been issued, were caught. The search of baggage revealed some forbidden written material. Many arrests were made for the illegal carrying of arms. EXODUS OF JEWS. RESULT OF PERSECUTION BY NAZIS. SEVERAL COUNTRIES APPROACHED. (Received July 26, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 26. The "Daily Herald" says that the undiminished Nazi persecution is likely to lead to a new exodus of Jews from Germany. A hundred thousand have already left, and 400,000 would depart if they possessed the means. Settlement in Palestine under present conditions is costly and impracticable. Influential Jews have approached the Governments of Argentina, Brazil, Turkey, and Persia asking them to facilitate settlement. Persia welcomes technicians and Turkey is willing to admit professional and trade experts.

NO POLICE AEROPLANES FOR GERMANY. KKITISH GOVERNMENTS STATEMENT. i 8.".J I'ISH OFPILIA Li xvl.il (Received July 25, 5.5 p.m.) EUGBY, July 25. An answer has been conveyed by the British Government to Captain Wilhelm von Goering, who recently approached the British attache at Berlin with the information that Austria had purchased a few British aeroplanes of a military type for police purposes, and suggested the possibility of Germany purchasing similar machines for the same purpose. The British Government informed Captain von Goering that no aeroplanes of the type indicated had been supplied to the Austrian Government, and that the British Government had no intention of conniving in a breach of the Paris Air Agreement of 192 C, under which 50 members oi the German police force were allowed to receive flying instruction, but the force was not to perform duties in the air or to possess aeroplanes.

AEROPLANE CRASH. SENSATIONAL STORY CURRENT. (Received July 26', 7.40 p.m.) PARIS, July 26. The Strasbourg newspaper, "Dernieres Nouvelles," says it is widely reported that the aeroplane Lithuania was mistaken for a police aeroplane and was shot down by German frontier guards, who are said to have been ordered to fire on any unknown aeroplane crossing the Polish frontier. The newspaper adds that the German anti-aircraft defences on the Polish frontier in* elude a chain of concrete machinegun emplacements. [The Lithuanica was the aeroplane in which Stephen Darius and Stanley Girenas attempted to fly from New York to Kovno, Lithuania. They crashed at Kuhdamm, Pomerania, 380 miles from their goal. It was said at the time that the airmen had apparently mistaken tree-tops, lit by their searchlight, for the ground, and had attempted to make a landing on them.l