EVENTS IN GERMANY

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 109, 11 May 1933, Page 11

EVENTS IN GERMANY

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

ARREST OF DIRECTORS

BERLIN, May 10. Captain Goering has issued a decree severing the connection between tho armed police and the Storm Troops and the Steel Helmets, thus restricting power to make arrests to the police. ■, Public surprise was' occasioned by the execution of. three murderers, whowere sentenced to death. Under the late regime the sentences would almost automatically have been commuted to penal servitude. It is explained that it is part of Herr Hitler's policy to restore the respect of' tho '■ people for German justice. ■ r. Herren I>itz. Bluethged, Wilhelm Springbrun, and Carl Benrath, prominent directors with Anglo-American affiliations, who developed the international silk industry, have been arrested on charges of falsifying balancesheets. ■ :.■■■ .■'■■■ -Other arrests include "Herr Gerstoll, director of the Charlottenburg waterworks; Herr Kobmert, a banker ; and Count Zueulenburg, a Prussian banker and landowner, who aro charged with fraud. Herr Fritz Dresscl, loader of the Communists in the Bavarian Diet, committed suicide at tho Dachau concentration camp. Herr Haus. Heimlcr, a Communist member of the Reichstag, sensationally escaped from tho camp, despite the fact that it is surrounded, by a high fence of barbed wiro charged with electricity.