OUTRAGE BY NAZIS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21467, 15 April 1933, Page 9

OUTRAGE BY NAZIS

JEWISH LAWYER'S FATE KIDNAPPED AND SHOT COMMUNISTS KILLED SUICIDE OF AN OFFICIAL By Teleprrnph—Press Association—Copyright (Received April 11, 5.5 p.m.) Times Cable LONDON. April 13 Tho Berlin correspondent of the Times states that men in Nazi uniforms at Chemnitz at night raided the home of Dr. Weiner, a well-known Jewish lawyer, who served with distinction during the war. The Nazis produced a warrant for his arrest and removed him in a motor-car. Later Dr. Weinor's bullet-riddled body was found in the country. The police declare that the warrant was fictitious. Another version of the affair states that three men in the uniform of the storm troops arrested Dr. Weiner m his flat, and later his dead body was found in a . sand-pit with revolver wounds in the head. The police have issued no order for j an arrest, but they say the deed of blood must be cleared up for the sake of Germany's good name. The storm troops deny all knowI ledge of the outrage. | A message from Munich states that j Nazis shot three Communists dead and j | wounded a fourth while they were at- i J tempting to escape from the Dachau ! concentration oamp. | Following his arrest on charges of | breach of trust, tho assistant-burgo-master of Dusseldorf hanged himself in a cell. Nazis arrested the chief burgomaster, Herr Lehr, on similar charges. ATTACK ON GERMANY SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN GRAVE EUROPEAN SITUATION (Received April H, 6.35 p.m.) LONDON, April 13 In the House of Commons to-day Sir Austen Chamberlain made a trenchant attack on Germany. The ex-Foreign Minister said: " Frankly, I view the present situation in Europe with grave anxiety. We cannot pretend to conceal the state of uncertainty in which the world has been left concerning what was actually proposed or agreed to in Rome or what passed in Germany. " This seems to me to render this a singularly inopportune moment to talk about a revision of treaties." Amid cheers Sir Austen asked: " What is this new spirit of German nationalism? It is the worst of the old Prussian Imperialism with added savagery, pride and exclusiveness. No subjects not of pure Nordic birth are to have equality of rights or citizenship in the nation to which they belong. Are you going to discuss revision of treaties with a Government like that?" (Loud cheers.) " Will you dare to put another Pole under the heel of such j a Government as long as Germany is I affected by this narrow, exclusive, spirit, which says it is a crime to be in favour of peace, a crime to be a Jew? That is not the Germany to which we can afford to make concessions. " Before you can disarm or urge others to disarm you must see a Germany whose mind has turned to peace, and who will use equality of status not to menace the safety of others." Mr. Winston Churchill said that so surely as Germany acquired military equality while her grievances were unredressed and while _shc was in her present temper, so surely would they be within measurable distance of renewal of a general European war.