PLOT AGAINST NAZIS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20921, 31 July 1933, Page 9

PLOT AGAINST NAZIS.

—*— ; ALLEGATIONS OF POLICE.! i COMMUNISTS SAID TO BE j \ ACTIVE. | (UHITEI) J'P.ESS ASSOCIATION— BY EL.ECTIUU j TZLEOHArn— COPTBIGHT.) I (Received July 30, 8.40 p.m.) j BERLIN, July 29. I The police declare that the communist movement has only been driven underground by the savage repressive measures that have been used against it. They declare that communists throughout Germany are plotting for the overthrow of Herr Hitler, and that their activities include secret newspapers, the distribution of arms, and attacks on Nazis. New communist cells are discovered almost every day, notably in the Ruhr. Storm troops in Bochum discovered an organisation of between ( 4000 and 5000 members. This led , to a round-up, those arrested including the leader, Herr Hulsman. Explosives and ammunition were seized and many arrests made at Leipzig and Breslau, where, it is al- j leged, the chief of police was to be ; assassinated. In the north of Ger- ! j many 93 alleged communist leaders ; I were arrested and charged with : i secretly reorganising the party. | COMMUNIST PRISONERS j j PUNISHED. i j (Received July 30, 7.15 p.m.) J BERLIN, July 23. j The secret police have ordered all \ communists imprisoned in Germany | to go without lunch for three days, j because some unknown person cut clown a tree planted by President l von Hindenburg at the Tcmpelhof(erfeld on May 1, in celebration of ; the first national Labour Day under | the Nazi regime. j l j 1 JEWISH STUDENTS BEATEN i | BY NAZIS. j I DEATH OF ONE YOUTH. \ , j (Received July 30, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON. July 29. \ The Jewish Telegraph Agency cir- j culates a report that storm troops; on July 24 carried off 16 Jewish students and a teacher at the Brunswick School to the Nazi barracks, where they were beaten. One. Bern Zauberel, died later. The Nazis handed his body to the Jews for burial. They alleged that they had heard the students criticising Dr. Paul Goebels, Minister for Propaganda. OBLITERATION OF GRAVES. STEP IN CAMPAIGN AGAINST MARXISM. j MUNICH, July 22. j The Nazis have now extended toj the dead their "cleansing action," in other words, the removal from the face of Germany of everything sa-'ouring of "Marxism." \ decree was issued to-day by the Munich municipal council that the graves of Kurt Eisner and Gustavus Landauer are as soon as possible "to be obliterated and regarded as expunged. The grave monuments are to be demolished and the ashes of both deceased placed at the disposal of the Jewish ecclesiastical authorities." Kurt Eisner was the communist leader in Bavaria in~ 1919. As he was leaving the Ministry of External Affairs to go to the Bavarian Diet, he was shot from a car by j Count Arco, then a young officer and an enthusiastic Monarchist. | The "Red Guard" returned the! Pro and Count Arco was seriously wounded. He was condemned to death, reprieved, and released after serving five years' penal servitude. He was rearrested a few days after the seizure of power by the Nazis) in Bavaria last March, as it was alleged that he had threatened to shoot Herr Hitler. After Eisner's death Landauer became one of the leading personalities of the communist Republic, which was proclaimed on April 7, \ 1919. It collapsed on May 1, when, after severe street fighting, German troops and a free corps led by the present Nazi Governor, General von Epp, defeated the communist forces. TRADE AFFECTED BY BOYCOTT. SHIPPING MAN'S STATEMENT. (Received July 30, 7.5 p.m.) BERLIN, July 28. At the meeting of the new board of control of the Hamburg-Amerika steamship line, Herr Schinckel, the former president, stated that the foreign boycott against Germany had affected the company's business most severely, but the company had entered the new year hopefully. '