MEMBER BOYCOTTED

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 December 1925, Page 5

MEMBER BOYCOTTED

IN GERMAN REICHSTAG.

ANNOUNCED BY SOCIALIST, SEQUEL TO MURDER CHARGE. BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION —COPYBIGHT. Received Dec. 17, 9.58 a.m. BERLIN, Dec. 16. Angry shouts. of “Murderer!”, greeted the entrance of Whiles 'irto the Reichstag. ; , Leweren, a Socialist,, mounted the tribune and declared : “I -understand that the member is under strong suspicion of murder, and intends to defile th e House by speaking from .the tribune.”

Upon this, .the Socialists, Democrats, Catholics and Communists left the Chamber.

Wulle mounted the tribune and admitted that Lehder was a member of his party, but denied his accusations.- - A. and N.Z. Asm • ■. •

In a cabje ■ message published on Monday it. was . stated that according to the Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail, sensational disclosures were made, at the trial of a youth named Lelider, aged 19, for the murder of a comrade, Lieut. Dammers, because be believed him to be\a Communist spy. The two belonged to a party caked, the Volhische, which aimed at purifying Germany of all foreign, and especially Jewish, , influence. Lehder lured Dammers into the forest at legel, on the outskirts of Berlin, and shot him. He had previously informed two members of the Reichstag,. Wufle and Kube, of his suspicions. They declared that such people must be destroyed. When told that the murder had been accomplished thev appeared to be delighted. -1