AMUSING SITUATION
GERMAN AMNESTY ACT PRISONERS REFUSE RELEASE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BERLIN, July 19. An amusing situation resulted when the Amnesty" Act was put into opera tiou. A number of Communists actu ally refused to be released, and had to be carried from Sonnenbrug Gaol on stretchers. They had no preference for gaol, but struck because freedom was not granted to their leader and hero, Max Hoeiz, whose life sentence for murder was merely reduced to imprisonment for seven years. Hoeiz stirred up a little revolution in the gaol, the Communists hunger-striking and singing the ‘ Internationale ’ at all hours of the day and night. Eventually the authorities strapped the men to stretchers and dumped them outside the gaol. Two hundred others who _ were granted amnesty are hunger-striking at Brandenburg, and, as _ forcible feeding is impossible, jugs of milk are being left in the cells.—Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 19923, 20 July 1928, Page 4
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