LAWS IN GERMANY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 227, 25 August 1932, Page 7

LAWS IN GERMANY

SUPPRESSION OF TERRORISM. SEVERE SENTENCE PASSED. QUIET DAY AT BEUTHEN, (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received August 25, 10.5 a.m. BERLIN, Aug. 24. Beyond a charge by 200 police to clear a Bouthen courtyard where Nazis were yelling “Surrender our prisoners,” the day passed uneventfully. The severity of the anti-terrorist laws is displayed by a 10 years’ sentence on a Berlin Communist for firing a revolver during a political clash.

Bouthen is a town in Prussian Silesia where fivo Nazis were sentenced to death for tho murder of a Communist.

FASCISTS AND REDS.

BERLIN, Aug. 24. Communist sharpshooters at Duisburg raided the home of a prominent Fascist, and fired a volley into his bedroom. The Fascist escaped, but his wife was wounded. This is the first blood in tho war between the Fascists and Reds, which threatens to rend the country of two, while the death sentences on tho fivo Nazis at Beuthen have aroused a wave of auger only comparable to that of Central Europe after the murder of the Austrian Archduke at Sarajevo in 1914.

OPPOSITION TO INFLATION

DEPENDENCE ON OTHER COUNTRIES.

Received August 25, 10.5 a.m. BERLIN, Aug. 24. Ilerr Luther, addressing the co-op-erative ba.nks, vigorously opposed inflation and warned Germany against exaggerated endeavours to become independent of foreign imports. The Reichbank was willing to supply credit for economically sound purposes.

NAZI OUTRAGES.

SOCIALISTS IN SELF-DEFENCE

One effect of the continued terrorism in Germany, which has opened everybody’s eyes to the true character of tiio Nazis, is the rapid advance of working-class unity everywhere, reports the Berlin correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. Socialists and Communists are forming joint defence organisations. The leaders of the Socialist Party have informed Herr Braclit that they would authorise their followers to take immediate measures of self-defence if tho Nazi outrages did not cease. The Government has appealed to Herr Hitler to exercise a restraining influence. Even the police now admit that the Konigsberg outrages were committed by Nazis. The Government apparently has begun to realise that to condone terrorist violence is not a simple matter in a country with a highly developed civilisation, and a great Labour movement with political and revolutionary experience at least as _ great as von Papen’s and von Schleicher’s.