GERMAN KU KLUX

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 45, 17 November 1925, Page 11

GERMAN KU KLUX

LATEST BERLIN ORGANISATION. ■ r According to a Berlin paper the police havs discovered a secret organisation formed bv three Gorman-Americans on tho model of the Ku Klux Klan, with the object of "fighting Judaism. Tho members call themselves “Knights of the Fiery Cross,” f wear unquestioning obedience to their chiefs, and declare themselves worthy of “an agonising death” if they betray the cause, states the Berlin correspondent of the “Daily Telegranh.” Th< oath is administered on a blood-red cross before a banner of the old Imperial colours adorned with the Swastika. At the ceremony all the members of the organisation are masked. A number of domiciliary searches made recently yielded considerable documentary evidence with regard to the association. Some thirty or forty arrests were made, and others are pending. Connection between the knights and the Frontbann and the Wiking League are said to have been established.

This announcement at a time when the anti-Semites and militarists are notoriously very active and daring. Various signs indicate that they have recently been supplied with funds on a generous scale. Thvy have been especially enterprising in the Ruhr towns just evacuated "by the French. Only recently a meeting of the Pan-Germanic Federation, the oldest and most moderate of the anti-Semitic organisations, cheered the statement of its president, Herr Class, that the time was ripe for another deed like that of Hermann, who destroyed the Roman Army under Varus in the defiles of the Teutobergerwald. At this path.-ring bitter attac :s we e made on Herr Stresemann and the Security Pact policy. Even Hindenburg ‘>as not escaped the animosity of the anti-Semites, some of whom are now saying openly that hs has fallen under tho influence of the Jews.