JUMP FROM AIR LINER

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18659, 30 August 1930, Page 17

JUMP FROM AIR LINER

GRAVE POLITICAL REACTION. United Press Association—By Electric T el egr aph—Copyright ("The Times.’’) (Received August 29, 7.5 pm.) BERLIN, August 28. Frau Amlinger’s death, by jumping from an air liner, is likely to have political reactions. The “Berliner Tageblatt” said that she committed suicide through grief at the death of her husband, who was a Reichswehr officer, nominally retired. He was killed while receiving military aviation training in Russia. Germany has been forbidden by treaty to maintain a military air force, and the “Tageblatt” suggests that a Reichswehr officer would not be detached for aviation training in Russia without the knowledge of the Reichswehr high command. The journal fears that the affair will spur French Nationalists to fresh attacks on Germany. It is a coincidence that on the same day as Frau Amlinger committed suicide, the newspaper “Germania” published a series of allegations concerning the relationship between the Reichswehr and the Russian Red Army. It declared that certain persons in the Reichswehr Ministry were pursuing a pro-Soviet policy, which implied the existence or imminence of a military alliance.