CONDITIONS IN GERMANY

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 26 August 1933, Page 5

CONDITIONS IN GERMANY

‘TRUE PICTURES’ DESPATCHED COMMUNIST MAIL OPENED. PACKETS FOR SCANDINAVIA. INTENDED REPORTS REPLACED. (UmteU rress Association- —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 10.30 a.m. to-day. BERLIN, Aug. 25. The authorities at Aachen (ALx la Ohapello) opened a package of newspapers posted in Paris to Communists in Copenhagen reporting recent happenings in. Germany and substituted newspapers “giving a true picture of the condition's.” They' a.dmitted that packages consigned to Scandinaia via German v were: regularly' opened. The latest decree deprives the rights of citizenship and confiscates the property of a lengthy list of exiled authors, Socialists, pacifists and Communists.

AGED AND INFIRM.

AID MUST BE VOLUNTARY,

BERLIN, Aug. 24. Announcing that in the interests of economy municipal institutioins for the aged and infirm can no. longer be officially supported, but must be maintained voluntarily, the burgomaster of MaTetzko made the astounding .statement at a Press conference that he was unable to take the responsibility . for spending millions to prolong the lives of the incurably sick and insane. The burgomaster added that humane care would’ be taken care, of these unfortunates, but an end must be put to dosing with expensive medicines, which after all only prolonged their sufferings.