IDENTITY OF VICTIM

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 80, 5 April 1933, Page 8

IDENTITY OF VICTIM

ENGLISHMAN NAMED BELL NAZI RESENTMENT

(Received April's, 1.45 p.m.) •. VIENNA, April 4. '. ' The' newspaperman /who was shot . is Dr. George Bell, an Englishman, who had lived in Germany for .fifteen years. 'He joined the Nazi movement and became the political confidant-of1 Colonel Rochm, comniander-in-chief of the Nazi Storm Troops. . The f'Arbeiter Zeitung," in an article on March 19, described. Bell as liaison officer between the Hitlerites and an international magnate who subscribed largely to the Nazi cause. It says that Bell met the magnate in London last year, and big credits for the Nazis followed. ■ ■"■-,- ■-'■;. . i » ..

The "Daily Express," however, recalls that Bell reached Harwich and was not allowed to land. The authorities gave no reason. Bell returned to Berlin in fear of the Nazis. The leaders in Munich decided that Bell was untrustworthy. 'He recently revealed sensational details concerning Roehm. These wero ( hotly resented iv Nazi circles.

After that Bell was a doomed man. He finally fled from Berlin to avoid arrest. His pursuers cut the telegraph wires at Durchholzen before entering the village. They were heard urging Bell not to return ■to Germany, saying that his mother and sister, seized as hostages, would then be released. Bell replied that he would return only by train and not by motor-car. The hotel boots, hearing the shooting, rushed into the room and saw Bell dead on the floor. He was himself shot in the leg. The murderers drove at high speed past the Austrian frontier guards, who aro stated to have fired at them.