Police Medal for Man Who Battled Robbers Writer Alleges That Man Executed Was Innocent The Shanghai Municipal Council recommendation submitted by the Municipal Police Permanent Awards Board and endorsed the Police that a On that date, one member of a gang of three assassins fired at a Chinese connected with the City Government as he was leaving his residence the Centrale District,- inficing several gunshot wounds.
Simultaneously, a second member of the gang went to the watchman's hut to intimidate the watchman.
P.C. 730 was in the hut and the gangster fired at him, inflicting a wound in the right shoulder, C.P.C. 730, although wounded, drew and loaded his pistol and pursued the in gang, firing two shots as they were escaping from the lane. One of the gang was wounded and he was arrested within an hour in a hospital, together with a second member of the gang. situ Shipping Discrimina tion In Tsingtao Buenos Aires, May 25.
Interesting revelations on the Reichstag fire in 1933 which, if true, prove that Van der Lubbe, Nether-lends citizen sentenced to death for the fire, was innocent, were made in the weekly magazine Ahora by Heinrich Jurges, German citizen who sought refuge in Argentina.
According to Jurges, he was Reich Commissioner for the Readjustment Service of Pensions for Wounded and Widows of the War, sent to act as interpreter for Van der Lubbe, at that time in prison. This was two days before the Reichstag fire.
The day following the fire, Jurges read in the press that Van der Lubbe had been accused of arson, Filled with indignation, he went to Dr. Joseph Goebbels, present Propaganda Minister, and stated that he did not Wish to take any part in the framed accusation.
From that time on, Jurges was a hounded man, so much so that he was compelled to seek refuge outside Germany's borders, Even then, attempts against his life continued. He was attacked in Chile and the victim of several aggressions in Buenos Aires. An attempt was.made to poison him once, the guilty one managing to'escape to Germany on board the liner General Jurges annou: that he would make further revelations in the next issue of the weekly.—Havas, I Collaboration for
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