Berlin, May 9.
Prussia, which promoters described Under the regime of Chancellor jas the" most important change in Adolf Hitler, the same leniency will German law since the peasants not be shown to murderers as clu were freed after the Napoleonic ing the Socialist rule in. Prussi when they were mostly spared the The Bill, which is valid only for death penalty, it was announced by farms" (which are defined as the authorities her to-day. tract of land not too large to be "che announcement was quickly Worked by one peasant. family) fuslowed by action, Two murderers forbids the free sale of lind, and Were executed "in ° prison in the lays down that the peasant." may Capital to-day, being beheaded with posses only one, hie who may infan. axe, while a third suffered the went the farm from hima, same fate at Weiden, The peasant. must be of "Ger-Captain Goering, Prussian Premier man" (namely non-Jewish and non and Minister of the Interior, refused coloured) "blood. The marriage of commute the death-sentences. in peasant with a person of "non each ease—Reuter.
German" blood disqualifies his off 'Beri May 10, spring from' inheritance-—Reuter.
Huge crowds assembled in the Berlin, May 12. Opera Square to-night to watch a The printing staff of the Ullstein lant bonfire of "un-German" books, Publishing Ca, the largest, of its Which was staged by the Nazis in kind in the Continent, struck work Dursuance of @ campaign to purge: to-day a5 a protest against the pre-German literature. "anti-Nazi and anti-Govern-From private as well as public ment element Libraries "books were brought and The stof is demanding the dis-ied high on Kultur's altar, Uni-missal of all Jewish members of the formed. students escorted van-loads staff, of whom there are a large of doonied books which were accom editorial sider umber, Yneluding "160° nie panied by caricatures of "Jews.
These included a bust of Dr. Bir: other newspapers, published by the The "Vossische Zeit ang" ana sehfleld, who is"knewn throughout the world for his works on sexual Ulinteln' Gon didn't appear to-day psychology.
The concern, which employe 1300 As the books were consigned to people, is endeavouring to settle the the flames, the names of their audifferences, but in the event of fs thors were read out amid. great turer a state commnssas isto be a cheers. pointed Yo control the company.
'A similar auto-da-fe was held simultaneously" at. Prankfurton-London, May 12. Main before a crowd of 15,000] Much excitement has' been" caused speetators.—Reuter.
Germany by the "action Captain "Sears, a veteran of the Berlin, May 10, Great War, in' removing and throw-'A criminal inquiry wilt shortly be Spaned, Against the former chairman ing. into the Thames the wreath Wednesday by Dr. posited "atthe Cenotaph of the German Trades Union Federa-Rosenberg, the tion, Herr Leipart, and his asso-Nazi envoy, on behalf of Herr Adolf elates in connection with alleged embezzlement and corruption, The incident is regarded Following the affront to Herr Hitler} and the whole of Germany, the Ghaneclior, has mot yet revealed was announced in Berlin this the Government's plans for the of afternoon that Sir John Simon had ganisaton/of labour to replace the called on the German Ambassador dissolved "Marxist" trade unions here and had expressed the regret has, however, stated." that of the British Government over the henceforth there will be only on¢ trade union, "the German Work-could be obtained in British official circles London, May 11. and inquiries in German quarters In the House of Commons this here showed that the report that sftcrne rae Georg the Foreign Secretary had called lender of the Opposition, at the German' Embassy was inthe Labour Party correct, It. was stated, however, fletermined attompe to" arrau that, at a chance meeting with the Aebate over the presence rear German " Ambassador, Sir John British of Dr. Rosenburg, on the Simon had expressed his regret round that "'Pascist, propaganda over the Incident—Reater, threatend British institution. Sev-London, May 13. eral Labour members urged that Dr. Rosenberg has decided. to re-Dr. Rosenberg should be requested turn to Berlin to-morrow,—Reuter, to depart.
The Home Secretary, Sir John London, May 13. Gilmour, replied that, if anything A wax-figure, representing Chansyore done eonteary. to British me cellor Hitler, in Madame, Tussaud' terests, he would Dr, Rosen-exhibition damaged berg marching orde: Searing "gree is who bestir.
Mr, Lansbury complained that Sir ched the figure with red paint and John Gilmour, while excluding Com: Insulting language. Four persons, pasted placard over it couched unst propaganda, "had admitted sist propaganda {nto the country.
on the matter,—Reuter.
The 'Speaker: disallowed 'a debate including one warman, have. been arrested. in connection' with the in-eident—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min. Von Papen's Reply London, May 11.
'A. demonstration by 'Communists Berlin, May 14. outside the hotel of Dr. Rosenberg defiant reply, to the recent] in London, marked the Nazi_ emi speech by Lord Hailsham, Secreta' sary's reception to-night for Brits of State for War, in the Britis press representatives, House of Lords, was made to-day The Communists gathered outby Here von Papen, former German} side "the hotel and shouted, "Wo Chancellor and now Vice-Chancellor} demand the expulsion of Rosen-under Herr Adolf Hitler. or" The demonstration led to a Herr von Papen's reply was made conflict with the police and. sub-in the course of a speech at a joint sequently two arrests were made. demonstration of Nazis and Steel 'Un the course of a short speech Helmet representatives at Munster. to press representative bore declared that the' aim of the a foreign power spoke of sanctions. He said: "This War Minister of Fovolution in Germany was to re In Lausanne they congratulated me establish social peace, themselves that the fantastic idea He said that he did not_apoli that payments cam be enforced by for what had occurred in Germany, and, in reply to criticisms. of, the military sanctions had found a last] Testing-place. This War Minister concentration camps which had been established, for political prisoners, obviously does not know what hypo-Cly. Rosenberg declared that the grisy it is to arouse in the League freedom of (5,000,000 Germans was of Nations sanctions against a more valuable than that of a few power which is doing no more than Communists. fight a moral fight against immoral The interests of German work-treaties, while the same League is men would be considered not lest not taking any measures against] but. more than hitherto, Hitler's powers which have recourse to wea-emissary added. ons and are waging war."
regard t0 recent arrests "The new Germany", he went on, Germany, Dr, Rosenberg contrasted "ig not understood by those who, in them with the fact that $00 Nazi the form of government, still, wad-had deen killed and 20,000 wounded inthe last fourteen years. dle, in the tracks of the French Revolution, "As for Jewish atfoeities, he de-"The fight against pacifism should claved that they could be number-not be regarded as the equivalent the fingers of one hand—a will to war."
Reuter.
The Vice-Chancellor then coined "The British Foreign Office has the following remarkable phrases: informed" the German Ambas "Pacifist fterature has. tried to suder that, an official. apology. will make out that the man who died be tendered for the removal of the! on the battlefield died an unnatural weeath—Trans-Ocean Kuo. Mi death, but the battlefield is for a Berlin, May "12. man, that motherhood is for a wo-'A Nazi plan to form Prussia, man". and, eventually "Germany, into "The enjoyment of eternity neces: a land of free peasants, was sitares the sacrifice of the indivi-embodied today in a Billi for
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