GERMAN BISHOP
"RECOMMENDED" TO LEAVE
TOWN
AN ELECTION OFFENCE
(Received April 29, 12.30 p.m.) | LONDON, April 28. The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that Monsignor Sproll, aged 68, Bishop of Rottenburg, has been "recommended" by the secret police to leave the town, at least temporarily, because he failed to vote in the Reichstag elections on the ground that he could not conscientiously vote as the Reichstag included enemies of the Church. When this became known demonstrators pulled down the Nazi flag from the Episcopal Palace, after which the secret police intervened.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 99, 29 April 1938, Page 9
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