BOYCOTT ENDED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 5 April 1933, Page 5

BOYCOTT ENDED

RESUMPTION UNLIKELY AGITATION AGAINST JEWS CONTINUES WHOLESALE DISMISSALS (United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) BERLIN, 4th April. Nearly every trace of the boycott has disappeared and it is unlikely it will be resumed. Meanwhile anti-Semitism is unabated, and the wholesale dismissal of Jews continues. The Nazis are attempting to “Christianise” the Bourse by forcing Jews to resign.

BRITISH SUBJECTS TWO ARRESTS BERLIN, 4th April. The Nazis arrested a journalist, Geoffrey Eraser, a British subject. They alleged that ho was a Communist, and conveyed him to an unknown destination. The police also sent to gaol a Briton, R. 0. Catclipole, international secretary to tho Society of Friends. The British Embassy is investigating. The Berlin Boxing Association has prohibited Jews from participation in fights. They have cancelled Jewish managers' contracts and also suspended foreign managers. JEWISH QUARTER SEARCHED HUNT FOR ARMS (Received sth April, 10.25 a.m.) BERLIN, 4tli April. The police and Nazis systematically combed the ghetto in search of arms. A synagogue service was not molested, but worshippers were afterwards searched. Those minus identification papers were bundled into lorries and taken to the police stations. Few weapons were found. It is officially ordered that the boycott of the Jews he not resumed tomorrow. POLISH APPEAL (Received sth April, 10.25 a.m.) WARSAW, 4th April. The executive of the Polish Jewish Unions is appealing to the League of Nations to intervene in the German persecution of Jews. IN BRITAIN COMMONER’S ACTIVITIES

(Received sth April, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, 4th April. Fifty Gentile members of the House of Commons, representing all parties, are petitioning Parliament seeking representations in connection with the antiSemitism in Germany, endeavouring to secure a day’s debate. Jewish Commoners at a meeting decided to approach the Government. NAZIS CROSS FRONTIER A GERMAN NEWSPAPERMAN SHOT (Received sth April, 12.45 p.m.) .VIENNA, 4th April. German armed Nazis crossed the frontier and raided the Austrian Durchholzen Hotel, where they shot a German newspaperman named Pell, who refused to return to Germany in their car. Austrian gendarmes confirm the death, but await police investigations before publishing details.

MURDERED MAN AN ENGLISH* MAN (Received sth April, 1.50 p.m.) VIENNA, sth April. The newspaperman who was shot was Dr. George Bell, an Englishman. lie had lived in Germany for fifteen years and joined the Nazi movement and became a political confident of Colonel Roehm, commander-in-chief of the Nazi storm troops. The “Arbeiter Zeitung,” in an article on the 19th March, described Bell as a liaison officer, between the Hitlerites and an international magnate who subscribed largely to the Nazi cause. It is said that Bell met the magnate in London last year and big credits for the Nazis followed.

The “Daily Express,’ ’however, recalls that he reached Harwich and was not allowed to land. The authorities gave no reason and Bell returned to Berlin in fear. The Nazi leaders at Munich later decided that Bell was untrustworthy. He recently revealed sensational details concerning Roehm and these were hotly resented in Nazi circles. Thereafter Bell was a dogged man. Finally he fled from Berlin to avoid arrest. His pursuers cut the telegraph lines at Durchholzen before entering the village. They were heard urging Bell to return to Germany, saying his mother and sister had been seized as hostages, and that they would then be released. Bell replied that, he would return only by train, and not in a motor car. The boots, hearing shots, rushed to the room, and saw Bell dead on the floor. He was himself shot in the leg. The murderers drove at high speed past the frontier guards, who are stated to have fired at them.