NUN SENTENCED

Evening Star, Issue 22033, 20 May 1935, Page 9

NUN SENTENCED

SMUGGLED CURRENCY FROM GERMANY TERM OF IMPRISONMENT Pres* Association —By Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, 17. A Catholic nun, Sister Wernera, secretary of the Order of St. Vincent, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and fined £12,000, in default a further 14 months, for smuggling currency from Germany. The court has also confiscated £20,000 from the Order. Sister Wernera admitted smuggling the money to Holland in clothing in order to buy orders and bonds, as money was required to extend the hospital at Col-, ogne. The prosecution declared that the trial was not political and not directed against Catholicism, but merely a criminal trial. ' ‘ i ATTACK ON CATHOLIC CHURCH LEADER OF THE “BAVARIAN HEATHENS.” MUNICH, May 18. . While 2,000 listeners approvingly clattered their beer glasses Wilhelm Backozez, leader of “ the Bavarian heathens,” indulged for two hours m the fiercest attack on the Catholic Church. He ridiculed the Confessional and the Last Sacrament as senseless to true Germans. He declared that the church’s mealy-mouthed ritual was a more effective emetic for Gormans than any druggist could supply. The Confessional was used to further high treason against the Fatherland. Some fanatics in the audience shouted “ Hang Archbishop Faulhaber. Down with Christianity.” One lone protester was beaten nearly unconscious. Nazis clashed with Catholic collectors for charity, whom they followed through the streets, shouting “ Do not give a copper to smugglers,” or else exhibiting copies of a newspaper streamer with headlines featuring Sister Wernera’s conviction. This eventually led to disturbances, in which youths beat Catholics, including a girl, whom the police rescued. The police later banned meetings. HERR HITLER ATTENDS MASS BERLIN, May 18. Herr ' Hitler entered a Catholic church for the first time since his assumption of power, when he attended Requiem Mass for Marshal Pilsudski. OUTSPOKEN BISHOP PRAYERS FOR HERR HITLER. BERLIN, May 19. (Received May 20, at 11 a.m.) Bishop delivering a - sermon, declared that the churches have become prisons, because pastors are not allowed to proclaim outside the Christian message which Germany has awaited, while paganism is preached without hindrance. After reading' a list showing that 22 pastors were in concentration camps, five arrested, a dozen expelled frqra their parishes, and six forbidden to preach, Bishop Nieraoller prayed for' those imprisoned for testifying the Gospel, also for Herr Hitler arid hjs advisers. 1