ANOTHER INVASION.

Wairarapa Age, 8 April 1933, Page 5

ANOTHER INVASION.

CRIME BY GERMAN GUNMEN IN LIECHTENSTEIN. MURDERS AND KIDNAPPING. BERLIN, April 6. Another outrage against German Jews outside German territory took place at Gaslei, in the Republic of Lichtenstein. The brothers Alfred and Fritz Rotter, formerly leading theatre managers in Berlinf were walking with Alfred’s wife and Frau Wolf, when seven young gunmen stopped them and tried to drag them into a waiting motor car. Alfred and the women struggled free and jumped down a ravjne'in their effort to escape. Frau Wolf was found injured, the other two dead. In the meantime, the kidnappers secured Fritz and drove furiously towards the Austrian Tyrol.. Fritz at Triesenberg leapt from the car and fractured his skull. The police stopped the car in the Tyrol and arrested the occupants; who were gaoled at Feldkirch. EXTRADITION DEMANDED. STORY TOLD BY ATTACKING PARTY. (Received Friday, 9.55 p.m.) VIENNA, April 7. “Life near the border is dangerous,” says Max Reinhardt, who has decided to leave his castle of Salzburg and live here. .The Government of Lichtenstein demands that Austria extradite the assailants of the brothers Alfred and Fritz Rotter. The assailants are mostly students under thirty. They were found in possession of a poison syringe, seven phials of chloroform, and gas pistols. They declare that they used no revolvers but made a tear gas. attack from patriotic motives; hoping to get the party to Austrian soil and facilitate their extradition to Germany. They assert that if they had succeeded they would have received a reward of £3300.