NAZIS IN GERMANY

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19663, 24 August 1935, Page 7

NAZIS IN GERMANY

CLASHES AT CONFERENCE.

CONFUSION AND EXCITEMENT.

DIFFERENT SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT.

(Times Cable.) ✓

(Received August 24, 12.40 p.m.) LONDON, August 23.

The Times’ 'Berlin correspondent says that amid great confusion and excitement the conflict between the Nazi school favouring severe penal sentences and the advocates of humanisation, came to a head when the Penal Con-" gress voted on the issue. The supporters of humanitarianism demanded _ voting by the nations in view of the large numerical superiority of the German delegation. An amendment favouring the continuation of the efforts to educate and reform prisoners was carried by ten nations to nine, England and America voting with the majority, and Italy and Germany favouring the minority. The Germans challenged the result, which is being referred to the bureau of the Congress. A similar clash on “ monster trials ” was avoided by a compromise amendment declaring that the right of defence should be safeguarded. Concentration Camps Defended. Dr. Goebbels, addressing the delegates, defended concentration camps, declaring that they were most human institutions for educating hostile elements to become useful members of the community. Germany found it necessary to limit the freedom of the' individual to an extent to which it con(liclcd with the freedom of the nation. What matter if a few thousand people were kept in custody if a nation of 00,000,000 was enabled to live?

PERSECUTION OF JEWS. CAMPAIGN OF STARVATION, BUSINESS MEN ARRESTED. • United Press assii —Eire. Tot. copyright (Received August 24, 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, August 23, The Manchester Guardian’s Warsaw correspondent says numbers of Jewish refugees have arrived at Danzig, victims of the unprecedented Nazi campaign to turn out Jews from East Prussia. Bakers in Tilsit were warned not lo sell bread to Jews. Flourmillers, vegetable, fruit and grocery shops were also forbidden to serve .them.

Two bakers who protested at the inhuman injunction were arrested.

Jews have been obliged to go to surrounding villages to save themselves from starvation.