INDIGNANT CROWDS
NAZIS ROUGHLY HANDLED
DR. WURM'S SUSPENSION
("Times". Cables.) (Received September 17,1 p.m.) LONDON, September 16. "The Times" Berlin correspondent says that indignant crowds at meetings protesting against Dr. Wurm's suspension roughly handled Nazi functionaries. Dr. Wurm refuses to recognise tho validity of the suspension and continues to claim leadership, of the regional Church, though ho is unable to gain access to the ecclesiastical buildings. l
The decree ordering Church officials to take the oath to Hitler, prescribed for public officials and soldiers, is also causing widespread trouble. Almost half of the 16,000 pastors of Germany are resolved to resist it.
Dr. Mueller, German Primate, has ordered Dr. Wurm, Bishop of Wurtemborg, to take indefinite compulsory leave because, with tlin Bishop of Bavaria, he Rejected Dr. Muellcr|s plan to .incorporate their churches in the German Christian Church movement.
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Evening Post, Issue 67, 17 September 1934, Page 9
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139INDIGNANT CROWDS Evening Post, Issue 67, 17 September 1934, Page 9
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