GERMAN TRADE SECRETS

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 October 1933, Page 5

GERMAN TRADE SECRETS

REVEALED BY exiled

BRITISH FIRMS PROFIT

[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSX. —COPYRIGHT.]

(Reed. October 31, 1 p.m.) LONDON, October 30.

The “Daily Herald’” says: British chemical manufacturers are taking full advantage of the expert knowledge offered by German , chemists, exiled by the Nazis. The ingredients of a large number of medicines hitherto only obtainable in Germany, have been revealed ,and as a result, doctois and chemists have received a. list of 161 such preparations which are noybeing manufactured in Britain. It is found possible to produce many preparations much cheaper than there were hitherto obtainable from Germany, with the result that these are now available to the poorest patients.

IMPRISONED JOURNALIST.

(Received October 31, 10.30 a.m.) BERLIN, October 30.

It is authoritatively announced that Panter is going to Leipzig, and will be examined by a Magistrate, on a charge of espionage. It is alleged that the arrested German journalist, Achermann, made a statement making the case against Panter the blackest. If the Magistrate decides on a prosecution. Panter will be tried in the Supreme Court. The British Consul and the ViceConsul saw Panter. The police recorded the entire conversation. Panter said that a German prisoner was placed in his cell, necessitating caution, as he feared the other might be an agent provocateur. RUGBY, October 30.

Sir E. Phipps has received a further note from tho German Minister of Foreign Affairs, from which it appears that no decision has yet been taken with regard to the formation of _ a charge against Panter. The British Ambassador has requested' the Minister of Foreign Affairs to furnish him at the earliest possible moment, with precise information regarding the charge. It is understood that the normal procedure in the case will be for the Bavarian Government to send the papers to the State Prosecutor at Leipzig, with a recommendation as to the nature of the charge. Only the State Prosecutor, however, can decide whether the case will be proceeded with, and if so, in virtue of which article in the criminal code the charge should be preferred.

REICHSTAG FIRE TRIAL.

(Received October 31, Noon.) BERLIN, October 30.

At the fire trial, a witness, Soeaker, was arrested, after his confession that his testimony against Taneff was false.

The President declared that Soenker had committed deliberate perjury.

AUSTRIAN NAZIS

VIENNA, October 29.

At Wienerneustadt, the Court sentenced six Nazis to terms of imprisonment from two months to two years for terrorism, damaging a railway line, and blowing up' a bridge. They are teachers and scholars at the Federal School at Traiskirchen.

FLIGHT FROM PRAGUE.

VIENNA, October 29.

A new trouble centre has emerged in Czecho-Slovakia, whence five hundred German refugees have poured into Vienna in the last 24 hours, saying that they fear terrorist persecution, following on the Czech national celewhich are being held in Prague.