UNDER NAZI RULE

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 March 1934, Page 7

UNDER NAZI RULE

CAMP HORRORS. [BY CABLE —PBEBS ASSN.—COPYBIGHT.] (Recd. March 19, 2 p.m.) LONDON, March 18. Conditions in the concentration icamp at Oranieburg near Berlin, from which he recently escaped, were deecribed in London by Gerhardt Seger, formerly Secretary of the German Peace Society, and a Socialist member of the Reichstag until his arrest last year, on no charge, but owing to his : political opinions. The first thing Seger heard on his arrival in London was that his wife and baby had' been arrested as hostages because of his book dealing with Jiis experiences, the circulation of I Which is forbidden in Germany. I He states that there are 1800 prisoners at Oranieburg. The conditions are frankly inhuman. The food is bad and there are no prison rules, all being left to the tender mercies of the guards, who, on returning drunk and quarrelsome to the camp, treated the prisoners so ferociously that half the inmates were victims of brutality. i “Like many others,” said Seger, “I was belaboured with rubber truncheons until the blood flowed.” Seger, who detailed revolting punishments in 'camp, is publishing an English book on his experiences “In order that the world' may learn something of„ the freedom Germans enjoy to-day.” GERMAN SECRET POLICE LONDON, March 18. “The Observer’s” Berlin correspondent reports that General Goering issued a decree giving the secret police an official permanent character instead ! of functioning as hitherto as a Nazi ; body for stamping out Social Democracy and Communism. EX-KAISER’S FINANCES. .

(Recd. March 19, 2.30 p.m.)

LONDON. March 18. Interviewed by the “Daily Express” at Doorn, with reference to.recent reports of the ex-Kaiser’s financial troubles, due to the difficulty of obtaining money from German, Count Schwerin, comptroller of the household, said: “His. Majesty is economising and the Empress has taken the household arrangements into her own hands. While His Majesty insists on economy, he is unwilling to dismiss any servants, as he desires none to lose a livelihood. The Emperor has finished with ruling, and is devoting the rest of his days to archaeological research. He is now passionately interested in the study of ancient sun worship, and is collecting symbols from different countries and civilisations, in order to come to conclusions if he can. Our two concerns to-day are wisdom and nature.”