ARRESTS IN BERLIN
LEADING MERCHANTS A FANTASTIC SITUATION LONDON, Dec." 7. The Daily Telegraph’s Hamburg correspondent says: A series of arrests of leading merchants during the past three months has perturbed the business community. Many directors of important firms have been taken into custody and charged -with violating the complicated currency relations. General Goering has ordered an independent investigation. It is hoped the cases will be settled out of court, but the Chamber of Commerce protested to the Nazi governor (Herr Kauffmann). „ , „ Apparently the alleged offences are merely technical breaches, and the arrests are damaging the credit of leading firms. A fantastic situation is that those arrested are technically liable to decapitation for economic sabotage under General Goering’s own law. , Herr Lademann. a member of Edmen and Sons, a most esteemed mercantile firm, committed suicide in gaol.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23370, 9 December 1937, Page 11
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