THE NAZIS’ LATEST.

Wairarapa Age, 6 April 1933, Page 5

THE NAZIS’ LATEST.

ENGLISHMAN SHOT DEAD IN AUSTRIA. ON REFUSING TO RETURN TO GERMANY. AN IMPUDENT INVASION. VIENNA, April 4. German armed Nazis crossed the frontier and raided the Austrian Durchholzen Hotel, where they shot a newspaper man named Bell, who refused to return to Germany in their car. Austrian gendarmes confirm the death, but await police investigations before they publish details. A DOOMED MAN. FORMER CONFIDANT OF NAZI LEADER. MURDERERS RUSH FRONTIER POST. VIENNA, April 4. The newspaper man who was shot is Dr. George Bell, an Englishman, who had lived in Germany for fifteen years. He joined the Nazi movement and became the political confidant of Colonel Roehm, commander-in-chief of the Nazi Storm Troops. The “Arbeiter Zeitung,” in an article on March 19, described Bell as liaison officer between the Hitlerites and an international magnate who subscribed largely to the Nazi cause. It says that Bell met the magnate in London last year, and big credits for the Nazis followed.

The “Daily Express,” however, recalls that Bell reached Harwich and was not allowed to land. The authorities gave no reason. Bell returned to Berlin in fear of the Nazis. The leaders in Munich decided that Bell was untrustworthy. He recently revealed sensational details concerning Roehm. These were hotly resented in Nazi circles.

After that Beil was a doomed man. He finally fled from Berlin to avoid arrest. His pursuers cut the telegraph wires at Durchholzen before entering the village. They were heard urging Bell to return to Germany, saying that his mother and sister, seized as hostages, would then be released. Bell replied that he would return only by train and not by motor car. The hotel boots, hearing the shooting, rushed into the room and saw Bell dead on the floor. He was himself shot in the leg. The murderers drove at high speed past the Austrian frontier guards, who are stated to have fired at them. ANOTHER MAN WOUNDED. MORE ABOUT BELL’S CAREER. (Received Wednesday, 7 p.m.) VIENNA, April 5. The Nazis also severely wounded a friend of Dr. Bell. Dr. Bell was the chief witness for a Munich Socialist newspaper, which Brownhouse sued for libel in 1932. Dr. Bell was acquitted of forging Russian currency notes in 1930.