COMMUNIST PRISONERS REFUSE TO LEAVE GAOL
GERMAN AMNESTY ACT. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright., Received Thursday, 7.45 p.m. BERLIN, duly 19. An amusing situation has resulted from the Amnesty Act. A number of Communists actually refused to be released, and had to be carried from Sonnenburg gaol on stretchers. They had no preference for gaol, but struck because freedom was not granted their leader and hero, Max HoeJz, whoso life sentence for murder has merely been reduced to seven years’ instead of life. Hoelz stirred up a little revolution in gaol, Communists hunger-striking and chorusing the Internationale at all hours of the day and night. Eventually the authorities strapped the men on stretchers and dumped them outside the gaol. Two hundred others granted amnesty are hunger-striking at Jirancleburg. As forcible feeding is impossible jugs of milk are left in the cells.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6666, 20 July 1928, Page 7
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