GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1925, Page 2

GERMAN ITEMS

tC.i'IKAI.IAfi AND N.Z. C/-BI.E ASSOCIATION DEPARTURE OF TROOPS REGRETTED. COLOGNE, December 1 I. The citizens regret I lie departure of the British troops, who spent hall a million sterling yearly, providing much employment. I here are already thirtyeight thousand unemployed in the British s;uiio. Fund is dearer limn at any time previously known and the winter is exceptionally severe. There is much •distress among workers’ families. Trade is had and there have been many bankruptcies. A GERMAN SENSATION. LONDON. December 13. The "Daily Mail’s” Berlin correspondent 'ays sensational disclosures were made at the trial of a youth, Lohdcr. aged ID. for the murder of a comrade, l.iuet. Hammers, because ho believed him to he a Communist spy. 1 lie two belonged to a. party called the ” Ynlhisehe.” which aims at purifying Germany of all foreign, especially Jewish, influence. Lnhder lured Hammers into a loresi on the outskirts of Berlin and shot him. He laid previously informed two members of the Reichstag. M nils and Kube, of his suspicions and they declared that such people must be destroyed. When told the murder had been accomplished they appeared delighted. One witness startled the court Instating that Hammers had confided in him that he had been ordered by the party leaders to assassinate Doctor Sevorin. the Prussian Minister for the I nteriur.

Some extremists of the Ynlhisehe Parly, which numbers fourteen in the Reichstag, are conducting a campaign to substitute God's ancient Germany lor ( hrist because they -av Christ was a foreigner.

PERM A XT’S DIFFICULTY. LONDON'. Dec. If. ■‘l ho ’limes’ ” Berlin corrcs]K>mlcnt ■says; ‘'Germany has now been a week without a Cabinet, and no progress has been made with the forming of a new one. Dr. Luther lias declined President Hindonhurg’s invitation to form a Grand Coalition, comprising the Centre, the Democrats, the People’s Party and tho Socialists, on the ground of the attitude of the latter two Parties, who, one another. President Hindenburg, after that, summoned Dr Fehrciiback, the Centre Party’s Leader, who is at present endeavouring to effect a compromise by overcoming the People’s Party and the Soeialists’s differences, and thereby paring the way for a Grand Coalition, but it is generally considered that the effort will tail.