NAZI EX-LEADER KILLED

Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1933, Page 7

NAZI EX-LEADER KILLED

■. . -p"** ' * 3 MURDER FOLLOWS ARREST WROTE NOTORIOUS EXPOSURE. | By Telegraph—Press' Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 10 p.m., Berlin, July 18. The body of Dr. Schaefer, Hesse, in whom were four bullet wounds, was found flung on the railway line from a bridge after his protective arrest. A grim struggle obviously preceded the assassination. Dr. Schaefer as Nazi leader in 1931 "> concocted the notorious Boxheimer document gruesomely outlining Nazi methods. After the Nazis’ accession to power-he left the party and handed the document to the police on conscientious grounds. Thereafter he was a marked man and his wife and child, were homeless wanderers. As a warning to would-be disturbers of Germany’s foreign relations, Captain Goering has suppressed the newspaper Deutsche Zeitung for three months and has sent the editor to a concentration camp for alleging that General Italo Balbo, the Italian Air Minister, was baptised a Jew. CONCENTRATION'CAMP KILLINGS. 141 DEATHS ALLEGED SINCE APRIL. Rec. 9.40 p.m. London, July 18. The killing of Dr. Spiegel, Jewish lawyer in the Dachau concentration camp, has led to the discovery Of 141 persons murdered at Dachau since the opening of the camp in April, according to the Vienna correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. The Nazis state the <- m?n were shot while, trying to escape.