“MONSTROUS VERDICT”

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 205, 24 August 1932, Page 5

“MONSTROUS VERDICT”

<g> IS HITLER’S DECLARATION IN TELEGRAM TO NAZIS By Telegraph—Copyright—Press Assn. LONDON, Aug. 23. “In view of the monstrous veidict, I feel myself bound to you, comrades, in your absolute loyalty. Your liberty is now in question and also our honour. It is our duty to fight against a Government which has rendered such happenings.” Thus declared Hitler in a personal telegram to the five Nazis condemned to death. It is regarded as a declaration of war on the Government and a dangerous encouragement to followers who are ordinarily hard to keep in check. Goebbels, the Nazi’s Berlin leader, says: “We have no reason to glorify terrorism, but the sentences must not be fulfilled. They are tantamount to a blow in national Germany’s face.” Vorwaerts says von Papen must find a way to get rid of the bloody ghosts conjured up by the removal or the ban on Nazi uniforms. Pardoniag the condemned will mean the death of the emergency decrees.

APPEAL FOR REPRIEVE BERLIN, Aug. 23. Captain Roehm is speeding here to present Hitler’s personal appeal to Chancellor von Papen for the commutation of the Beuther sentences. A prominent Hitlerite says. If they shoot our men there will be no holding our storm troops.” It is believed in Government circles that there will be no reprieve.

NAZIS AMOK POLICE USE ARMS By Telegraph—Copyright—Press Assn. BERLIN, Aug. 22. The Nazis’ storm troops ran amok in the streets of Beuthen after five comrades had been sentenced for murdering the Communist Pietrzuch with atrocious violence. When the sentence was pronounced, Edmund Heines, a member of the Reichstag and commander of the Nazis’ storm troops in Silesia, rose in the Court and shouted, “The German people will deliver different sentences. This is the signal for Germany’s liberation.” Upon this an uproar occurred, Heines leading the demonstration with shouts of “Hail, Hitler!” The demonstration quickly spread outside, Nazis smashing windows of Jewish shops and of Catholic and Socialist newspaper offices. Police equipped wi-‘ s rifles and steel helmets exchange" shoU with the Nazis, cleared the r -sets, and arrested Heines. They saved a Jewish pedlar from being lynched. To-day’s death sentences were the first ordered by the special courts. The fact that they were imposed on the Nazis has caused a sensation throughout the country. ~