NEW PENAL CODE

Southland Times, Issue 22076, 25 July 1933, Page 7

NEW PENAL CODE

GERMAN MEASURE INCLUSION OF DEATH PENALTY NAZI LEADERS DIFFER (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Berlin, July 22. Captain Goering announces that the new Penal Bill includes the death penalty for action against public officials or storm troopers, whether the victim is killed or not. It also enforces action where the State’s dignity or existence is imperilled by “atrocity” propaganda. Herr Kerri, Minister of Justice, has created a new Chamber of Public Prosecutors to ensure that the death sentence is imposed and executed in the shorest possible time without regard to extenuating circumstances.

Coincident with the Penal Bill six out of 17 Communists convicted at Cologne of shooting two Nazis and severely wounding a third on February 24 were sentenced to death and three others to fifteen years’ penal servitude. The remainder of the sentences was not announced.

The Public Prosecutors, working in conjunction with the secret police, will operate all the Prussian Courts, dealing constantly with, recurring attacks upon the police and Nazi officials. The Prussian Cabinet has amended the Constitution by conferring upon the Premier sole authority for pardoning offenders under which Captain Goering has already authorized Herr Kerri to pardon all offences between March 25 and July 15 during the Nazi revolution.

The nature of the penal measures is regarded as illustrating the seriousness of developments. A Nazi circular entitled, “Our enemies do not rest,” urges members to free themselves from the subversive elements which are entering the storm troops as spies in order to mislead them into the ill-treatment of opponents, leading to atrocities. Any Nazi participating in such activities will be imprisoned in a concentration camp.

The Nazis must know that every murder of a Nazi by a Marxist will be re-visited tenfold upon the Marxist leaders, and therefore all important Nazis should refrain from brutally attacking their opponents, which is tantamount to a Jewish and Bolshevik outlook unworthy of Nazism. The Berlin correspondent of the Sunday Times says the panicky outburst exhibited towards the Penal Bill is really due to fundamental differences among the Nazi leaders, some desiring the dissolution of the storm troops and others opposing it, including Captain Goering, owing to the fear of revolution. Nevertheless, the maintenance of the storm troops involves the danger of extremists taking the situation in their own hands and also widespread dissatisfaction at the delay in relieving unemployment. If the leaders’ differences are intensified events of grave j national importance are expected in the immediate future. The British United Press says that Captain Goering has appointed Prince August Wilhelm a member of the new Prussian State Council. CROWDED CAMP COMMUNISTS AND JEWS. ENGAGED IN USELESS TASKS. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, July 23. The Hamburg correspondent of the Sunday Graphic reports:—“The British ought to realize that we must have concentration camps for Communists and Jews because the prisons are full,” said the Nazi commandant of the camp at Fullsbuettel, which is half a mile square, is surrounded with electrified barbed wire fences and has armed guards. The camp is crowded -with 12,000, mostly Jews. The commandant added that they had grown idle and wealthy at the expense of the Germans, and they must now work and become useful citizens. The correspondent saw thousands sweating furiously in the rain over useless tasks. Some were digging a great hole and others were refilling it. Others were moving a great boulder hither and thither. Meanwhile, the wives and women Communists were employed in cooking and making Nazi uniforms. The camp contains a garden in which the flowerbeds make the form of a swastika which the prisoners must water daily. They must also attend lectures on the benefits of Hitlerism. GERMAN GOODS NO OFFICIAL JEWISH BOYCOTT. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, July 23. The Jewish Board of Deputies overwhelmingly declined to officially boycott German goods and services. The decision was carried by 110 votes to 2 after the president, Mr Neville Laski, had opposed the boycott on the ground of the grave danger of reprisals on Jews in Germany. According to the Daily Herald the decision threatens to split the ranks of British Jewry, of whom a large section desires official recognition of the boycott, already operating on a large scale. Feeling is so intense that 500 Jews on Sunday threatened an East End shopkeeper who, it was alleged, sold German goods. They picketed the shop and attempted to dissuade customers from entering. OUTRAGE IN' AUSTRIA ALLEGED RINGLEADER ARRESTED. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Vienna, July 23. The police announce the arrest of the alleged ringleader in the attempt to kill Councillor Seidle. Accused was using a German passport under the name of Steigers. A search of his house revealed revolvers and cartridges. He also allegedly confessed to planning an attack on Herr Fey, Minister of Public Safety.

Twenty-two Nazi leaders in Austria were arrested and the Brown House at Innsbruck was closed following an attempt to shoot Councillor Seidle, the leader of the Tyrol Reinwehr, who was wounded in the arm. A former Minister of Education, Dr Rintelen, also narrowly escaped when his car crossed a plank, exploding a tube filled with dynamite.