MOB STORMS GAOL

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 April 1933, Page 5

MOB STORMS GAOL

LYNCH UW AT KIEL JEW RIDDLED WITH BULLETS [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN.—COPYBIGHT.] (Recd. April 3, 9.30 a.m.). , BERLIN, April 1. The boycott produced lynch law at Kiel, where Schomm, a Jewish solici--1 tor, arrived to attend his sister’s wedding. He was unable to enter his father’s shop owing to the Nazi pickets, with whom he had a scuffle. Schomm drew a. revolver, which was accidentally discharged, wounding a Storm Trooper named Ashalter. The Storm Troops smashed the shop windows and arrested the family. A rumour spread that Ashalter was dead, and the mob destroyed the shop, stormed the gaol where Schomm was detained, and riddled him with bullets. Ashalter died later. MORE NAZI ATRpCITIES (Recd. April 3, 9.50 a.m.). LONDON, April 2. The “Sunday Times” correspondent at Berlin says: The boycott is a complete fiasco. Regular customers bought heavily. The pickets, who were chiefly boys between the ages of 18 and 20, were continuously heckled, the crowds generally sympathising with the Jews. Many savage attacks on Jews, Socialists, and Communists are reported. Neumann, a Jewish merchant at Koenigsberg, was dragged from his house and beaten. He died as the result of a fractured skull and blood poisoning, due to pepper being sprinkled , on his wounds. ( Kindermann, a resident of Berlin, disappeared for several days. His j father later received a message stat- . (ng that he could fetch the boy from j the Storm Troops’ headquarters. ] Kreil, a Jew, flung himself from a fourth-storey window to avoid further torture.

A Jewish merchant belonging to Dolgesheim was hanged, after torture. A Jewish cattle dealer was taken for' a ride in a car, and shot. All these cases, which are authenticated, were due to private vengeance by the Nazis.

BOYCOTT LOSES FORCE BERLIN, April 1. The boycott generally has lost, its force, owing to the Jewish Sabbath. Many of the shops closed, but two thousand employees were idled at Wertheim’s big store, until they were sent home. Storm Troops, surrounding the Berlin Bourse, prevented Jews entering. Pickets generally were prominent tn the streets. ' The offices of doctors, lawyers and small shops were not molested. LIMITED TO ONE DAY \ April 1. A sudden decision to limit the boycott to one day is regarded in responsible quarters as recognition that economic dislocation would inevitably follow the extension of such measures. A Nazi boycott official admitted that telegrams from America had led to the exclusion of Jewish banks from to-day’s activities. It is not unlikely that financial reasons were urged by influential quajrtei’s, and caused a change in the original plan, under which the boycott would be continued indefinitely. Even Nazi members of the Cabinet insisted on the desirability of avoiding economic complications. It is suspected, in some quarters, that the whole campaign is a sop to the Nazi extremists, who have for years incited anti-Semitism. It remains to be seen whether, once the boycott has started, the leaders will be able to check it. There is reason to believe that a limitation of the anti-Jewish boycott is due to Von Neurath’s threat to resign if it is carried through. Hitler thereupon compromised to one day, and Neurath consented to stay in the Cabinet. There were dense crowds of people in Cologne city and in other Rhineland towns, which suggested that the populace were out holidaying to watch the boycott working. The boycott was generally intense. No Jew was overlooked.

Few people risked the threat of being filmed and exhibited at the cinemas if they entered a Jewish shop. Nevertheless, the Gentile traders profited little. Housewives will, probably, flock to Jewish firms again on Monday in accordance with their custom. Wagner’s statue at Munich was desecrated because his second wife was a Jewess. The wreaths were burned, the statue being blackened by the flames? Some Jews posted notices such as: “X served four years in the front ling: This is my reward!” “We Jews help to pay for the unemployed!” The Nazis have released the Jewish judges and lawyers, who have been “protectively arrested” in Dusseldorf. The leading Jews have been deprived of passports, to prevent their departure.

HYDE PARK DEMONSTRATION. (Received April 3, 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, April 2. Anti-Fascists’ demonstrators have abandoned their intention of demonstrating at. the German Embassy, which is nevertheless precautionarily (guarded by police. Forty thousand Communists and Independent Labourites proceeded to Ryde Park, conveying an. effigy of Hitler, which was surrounded by flames. They shouted. ‘‘Down ovith Hitler and Fascist!!” speakers addressed an orderly crowd. A deputation will wait on the Embassy later in the week. POLISH JEWS EXEMPTED BERLIN, April L The Polish Consul’s intervention prevented any boycott of the Polish Jews at Breslau. RUSSIAN COMPANY RAIDED BERLIN, April 2. Russian police raided the headquarters of the Russo-German Petroleum Company, and arrested thirteen employees. The Russian Embassy declares that this is the climax to raids on the company’s branches at Cologne, Leip-.

sig, Munich and elsewhere, and may strain Russo-German relations. PEACE PROSPECTS. (Recd. April 3,2 p.m.) LONDON, April 2. The “Daily Telegraph’s” diplomatic correspondent says that there is a prospect of the termination of antiSemitic hostilities in Germany, due to the combined efforts, behind the scenes, of the German Nationalist leaders and the principal Jewish bankers in New York and London, with the German Jewish bankers as intermediaries. The “Daily Telegraph" attaches special significance to the fact that the banks alone among Jewish institutions in Germany were left unmolested in Saturday’s boycott, which, it considers, is unlikely to be renewed. AUSTRIAN FASCISTS VII3NNA, April 1. The Government have cancelled the decree issued by Hen- Seitz, for the disbandment of the Reimwehr (Austrian Fascists). The police explain that they are too busy with the Socialists to tackle the Reimwehr.