No Explanation for Holding Former Honorary Consul Basle, Aug. 31.
The tional Zeitung" announced this morning that the Nazi authorities in Vienna had arrested Ferdinand Forster, former honorary Austrian Consul in^ Zurich.
M. Forster, who is a Swiss subject, has been placed im a concentration camp near Munich, the paper further alleged.
He had opened an international lew office in the premises of the former Austrian Consulate in Zurich and specialized in Austrian politics The German authorities refused to give any explanation for his arrest.
The "Nazional Zeitung" added that M. Forster, being a Swiss subject, was entitled to protection from the Swiss authorities even if his duties as honorary consul made him a citizen of two countries at the same time.—Havas.
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