TO ASSASSINATE HITLER

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 May 1935, Page 5

TO ASSASSINATE HITLER

CONSPIRATORS ACTIVE

INSURANCE RATES HIGH

[BY CABLE—PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.]

(Received May 27, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 26

Hitler’s sensations would be unenviable if he learned that London insurance brokers estimated the premium aghinst his assassination at sixty guineas per cent., says the “NewsChronicle.” '

Frequent visitors to Berlin continually hear ■ three or four circumstantial accounts of torture and injustice, invariably accompanied by details of' the latest attempt on Hitler’s life.

One well authenticated recent instance was carried out by a former chauffeur of Hitler, who knew the route by which the Fuhrer travelled to a certain town. He planned, with accomplices, to adopt a method of murder popular on the Continent, that of stretching a steel wire between two trees-, at the exact height of a man’s neck when travelling in Hitler’s car, but shortly before Hitler appeared, the assassins were caught.

TERRORISM INQUIRY (Rec. May 27, 11 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, May 26. The conference of the General Council of the International Federation of Trade Unions, passed a resolution demanding the establishment of an international commission to inquire into the Nazi atrocities, pointing out that Nazis’ terrorism was being increased. Thousands of trade unionists were still in concentration camps. A PAGAN WEDDING. (Received May 27, 1 p.m.) LONDON, May 26. “The Times’s” Berlin, correspondent says: The first new pagan wedding to achieve publicity was that of a Storm Troop Corporal, married at Pforzheim. The Assembly Rooms were draped with the Swastika Flag. Guards of honour flanked the marriage table, which was adorned with pagan emblems. Before a. flaming bowl, the wedding chorus from “Lohengrin” was sung. The Storm Trooper gave the pagan marriage address from Edda, interspersed with antiphonal chants. The couple received bread as a symbol of the earth’s germinative strength, and salt as a symbol of purity. After that, they plighted- their troth, and donned rings. STERILISATION. BERLIN, May 25. During the first year of the enforcement of the sterilisation law in Germany, there have been 56,224 persons treated. Of these, 42,903 have been males. The Court of Eugenics rejected 3,692 applications.