NAZIS IN OFFICE
IRON HAND FOB POLITICAL OPPONENTS. United Prese Association —By Electric Teleeraoh -Copyright (Received October 20, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 20. The Berlin correspondent of “The Times" says “An ex-High Court lawyer, Hans Wegener, a Swiss subject, has been sentenced to ten years' penal servitude and fined £SOOO. Several confederates received lighter punishment, though their property was confiscated, for complicity in Wegener’s allegedly treasonable organisation in Switzerland for getting money past the German foreign exchange control. Wegener allegedly profited largely during the German-Jewlsh panic, securing 10 per cent, of the amounts transmitted.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19626, 21 October 1933, Page 17
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94NAZIS IN OFFICE Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19626, 21 October 1933, Page 17
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