CRIME IN BAVARIA
MURDER FOR PATRIOTIC ENDS
DEEMED ACT OF JUSTICE
" (United Prrs. Association.—Copyright.) (Sydney Sun Cable.) LONDON, 12th October. Berlin reports state that extraordinary admissions of crimo and conflicts between witnesses' accounts aro characterising the proceedings before the Reichstag Commission which is inquiring at Munich regarding tho Bavarian political murders, during the early occupation of tho Rhineland, of the former Bavarian Premier, yon Kahr, and the ex-Ministers of Justice, Burtner and Roth._ Police officials, giving evidence under great pressure, admitted that a local association named tho Einwohnorwehr regarded as traitors persons revealing concealed arms to the Allied Military Mission, and arranged for their removal, and then enabled the murderers to escape by means of forged passports. German yon Epp, commander of tho Bavarian troops against the Bavarian Bolsheviks in 1919, questioned regarding a Certain murder, said the Nationalists regarded a murder for patriotic ends as an act of justice, differing, from an ordinary murder. Captain Roohm, who was prominent in tho Hitler "Putsch," refused to answer questions and was fined 300 marks.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 90, 13 October 1926, Page 11
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173CRIME IN BAVARIA Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 90, 13 October 1926, Page 11
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