POLITICAL MURDER

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 32, 8 February 1933, Page 7

POLITICAL MURDER

GERMANY'S JUNGLE RULE

GLORIFIED GUNMEN

BERLIN, 7th February. "Week-end deaths total ten, including eight Communists and Eepublieans, and scores were wounded. 'There were two deaths, and numerous additional casualties on Monday. Bevolver rule and jungle justice will certainly develop in Germany unless the law is applied with/ruthless impartiality. The fact that many crimes perpetrated during the shocking outbreak of terrorism last year have gone unexpiated has encouraged many young Nazis to murder, believing they will escape retribu- ■ tion.The funeral of Maikowski and Zau•ntz yesterday was treated to an official broadcast by the whole of the Nazi national Press as a great patriotic occasion, while their opponents, owing to the suppression of the newspapers "Vorwaerts," the organ of the Social Democratic Party, and "Die Rote Fahne," a Communist organ, have had an enforced silence imposed upon them, which has further embittered thousands in the workers' quarters. A terrible example of the glorification of gunmanship was shown by the murder of the Socialist. Mayor of Strassfurt, who had already released the Nazi for whose arrest he was shot by a schoolboy. There is evidence that Cabinet is determined to declare the Communist eloction lists illegal. Communists' plans for a general , strikehave not been realised, as the Socialists have not yet achieved-a united front.