REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES
■ NAZIS IN POLAND MANY SENT TO PRISON (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) , WARSAW, 21st June. One hundred and five German Nazis have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from ten years to eighteen months on charges of attempting to separate Upper Silesia from Poland by a military revolution, for which they had organised a membership of several thousands, imported arms from Germany, and drilled secretly in forests at night time. Hundreds fled to Germany when the organisation was discovered. Two of the ringleaders recently committed suicide. Forty-five were acquitted. HIGH TREASON CHARGES SAAR RESIDENTS SENTENCED BERLIN, 21st June. Twenty-nine Saar residents, including six women, have been sentenced to imprisonment for periods extending to nine years for “high treason against the new Reich by attempting to re-establish a Communist Saar.” The names of the prisoners., judges and counsel were not published for reasons of State.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 23 June 1936, Page 5
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