GUSTLOFF MURDER.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 February 1936, Page 7

GUSTLOFF MURDER.

HITLER'S UNOFFICIAL AMBASSADOR.

REVELATIONS OF FOREIGN ACTIVITIES. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.--Copyright) Received Thursday, 9.25 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 6.

! The Manchester Guardian's Geneva correspondent says Gustloff's murder is unique inasmuch as it is the first time since the Hitler regime that a Nazi has been assassinated by anybody but Nazis. Gustloff as Hitler's unofficial ambassador had more power and influence in Switzerland than the official representative of Germany. The Swiss Socialist newspaper Travail declared that the Government must take some responsibility because of its refusal to exoel Gustloff.

The Daily Telegraph's Berlin correspondent says German Jews regard organised reprisals as unlikely because of the presence of many foreigners in Germany for the Winter Olympiad, though the possibility of individual vengeance is not ignored. The Times' Berlin correspondent says that the newspapers, while unanimously declaring that Herr Gustloff was the victim of Marxist-Jewish hatred of Nazi Germany, regard Switzerland as partly sharing the murderer's guilt. It is affirmed that, the Social Democratic Press has long carried on a lying campaign against Nazism, and recently against Gustloff. In spite of official Swiss testimony as to the legality of Gustloff's work and the fact that he has done nothing 1o endanger the security of Switzerland, the hope is expressed that Switzerland will now put her Press house in order.

Gustloff was one; a liank official, and later secretary of the Observatory, and then chief of the Meteorological Station at Davos. He joined the "Nazi Party in .1929, and became leader of the Swiss group of.the foreign organisations of the Nazi Party, -whose task it was to foster Nazi propaganda among Germans abroad. There is scarcely a German colony throughout the world which lias not a Nazi group supervised from Berlin, but it is strictly enjoined that political activities should not extend beyond the German community.

Full Inquiry Demanded by

Germany

GENEVA, Feb. (5,

The German Minister at Berne called on the Foreign Minister, Dr. Motta, and demanded a full inquiry into the assassination of lie it Gustloff. particularly as to whether the murderer had any accomplices.

Nazi Anti-Jew Ban A FURTHER EXTENSION". BERLIN", Feb. 5. Ostensibly in order to avoid incidents, the Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels, has banned Jewish concerts and theatrical performances. Arrest in Munich ENGLISH WOMAN STUDENT. 'RELEASE AFTER SEARCH. MUNICH, Feb. 5. An Englishwoman, Miss Frances Blackctt, was arrested at a political meeting and accused of taking notes and of not giving the Hitler salute. After being searched, kept in custody all night, and not allowed to communicate with the British Consul, she was released at noon. Her notebook and personal papers were confiscated. Miss Blackett is a Conservative speaker in London, and had been in Germany for several months studying Socialism and political questions. In Case of Surprise THE SWISS ARMY. REORGANISATION SCHEME. LONDON, Feb. 5. The Daily Mail's Berne correspondent says that the Swiss Army is to be reorganised in order to meet a surprise attack from any quarter. It. will be divided into two parts, one to act as a covering force and to be immediately available, and the other as a field force, which can be mobilised later Eight smaller and more movable units and also a mountain division will re place the existing six heavy divisions.