SHOT A COMRADE

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 14 December 1925, Page 9

SHOT A COMRADE

GERMAN YOUTH’S CRIME. DISCLOSURES AT TRIAL AN ANTI-FOREIGN PARTY. IY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT Received Dec. 14, noon. LONDON, Dec. 13. The Berlin correspondent of the Dailv Mai] says: “Sensational disclosures were made at the trial of a youth named Lehder, aged 19, for the murder of a comrade, Lieut. Dammers, because he believed him to he a Communist spy. The two belonged to a party called Voihische, which aims at purifying Germany of all foreign especially Jewish ’influence. Lehder lured Dammers into the forest at leg 6 ]-. on outskirts of Berlin, and shot him. He had previously informed two members of the Reichstag. Wulle and Kube, of his suspicions. They declared that, such people must be destroyed. NX hen told that the murder had been accomplished they .appeared to be de ighted. One witness startled the court by statino- that Dammers had confided m him that he had been ordered oy the party’s leaders to assassinate I3i*. geverin, the Prussian Minister for the Interior. Some of the extremists of the Volhische Party, which numbers fourteen in the Reichstag, are conducting a campaign to substitute the gods or ancient Germany for Christ, because they say that Christ was a, foreigner.—Sydney Sun Cable.