DRIVEN UNDERGROUND

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 26, 31 July 1933, Page 7

DRIVEN UNDERGROUND

COMMUNIST MOVEMENT

LEADERS ARRESTED

BERLIN, Jnly 29. Ninety-three \Communist leaders have been arrested in North Germany and charged with secretly reorganising the party. Tho police declare that the Communist movement has only boon driven underground by tho savage repressive measures. Eeds are plotting throughout Germany for the overthrow of Hevr Hitler, their activities includ-, ing secret newspapers, distribution of arms, and attacks on Nazis. New Communist "cells" are. being discovered almost daily, notably in the Euhr. . Storm Troops in Bochum discovered an organisation with between four and five thousand, members, leading to a round-up, the arrests including the leader Hulsman. Explosives 'and ammunition were also seized. * Many arrests were made in Leipzig and Breslau, where it was alleged the police chief was to be assassinated.

The secret police have ordered all Communists in Germany to go without lunch for, three days because some unknown persons cut down a tree planted by President Hindenburg at Tempelhoferfeld on May 1 in celebration of tho first national Labour Day under the Nazi regime.

The Jewish Telegraph Agency circulates a. report that Storm Troops on July 24 carried off 16 Jewish students and a teacher at. a Brunswick school to the Nazi barracks, where they were beaten. One. Beni Zauberee, subsequently died, and the Nazis handed the body to the Jews for burial. They alleged that they heard the students criticising Dr. Goebel, Minister of Propaganda.

At a meeting of the new board of control of the Harnburg-Amerikaf Line, Herr Schinckel. the former president, stated that the foreign boycott against Germany had affected the company's business most severely, but tho company had entered tho new year honefully. - *