INDIGNANT CROWDS
NAZIS ROUGHLY HANDLED DK WURM’S SUSPENSION (Times Cable) LONDON, Sept- .16. The Times’ Berlin- correspondent says that indignant crowds at meetings protesting against Dr. Wurm’s suspension roughly handled Nazi functionaries. Dr. Wurm refuses to recognise the validity of the suspension and continues to claim leadership of the le gional Church, though he is unable to gain access to the ecclesiastical buildings. The decree ordering Church officials t<» take the oath to Hitler, prescribed for public officials and soldiers, is also causing widespread trouble. Almost half r f the 16,000 pastors of Germany are re.-olvcd to resist it P Mueller, German Primate, has rrdtred Dr. Wurm, Bishop of Wur Lemberg, to take indefinite compulsory .rave because, with the G.-.hup of Bavaria, he rejected Dr. Mueller’s plan tn jicorpn ate their churci*- in the German Christian Church movement.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 221, 18 September 1934, Page 5
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