GERMAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1922, Page 1

GERMAN NEWS.

UNITED SERVICE TELEGRAMS. THE RATHENAU MURDER. Ernest Tecliow has admitted that he was aware of the plot to assassinate Dr Rathenan, and drove the car from which the shots were fired. BERLIN, June 30. President Ebert has. issued a decree stating that 'members of secret societies planning to murder prominent people are liable to the death penalty or penal servitude for life.

Anybody knowing of the existence of such societies is liable to penal servitude if lie does not inform the authorities, or does not worn anyone threatened thereby. ANTT-AfOXARCTTTST FERMENT.

In regard to the Monarchist- plotters, continued excitement prevails in the provincial towns, furious mobs are invading the Monarchists’ houses, and are throwing the pictures and busts of the Kaiser into the streets. Dr HelIfcl'ich fan upholder of the old regime) has fled from Berlin for an unknown destination.

A GERMAN “JACK - THE RIPPER."

BERLIN, June 30. Sensational disclosures were made at

tlio trial of an elderly butcher. named Karl Grossmatm, who is deserihod as the Gorman “Jack the Kipper.” Ho is charged with the murder of three women. He enticed these to his flat, (>II the pretence of their employment as domestics, but the disappearance of more than ‘JO women is attributed to him. He is further accused of enticing an additional 50 women and children to his flat, hut they fortunately escaped. ft is aliened that Grossmann met his vetims at the railway station, and that lie afterwards cut the bodies to pieces and threw them into the River Spree, or into the canals. Ho has passed his time to his cell, writing his autobiography, in which ho declared that the surplus women have become a social and an economic pest and that, bv destroying some of them he has rendered a service to society

HANDING OVER ST LEST A. BERLIN. June 30. After an unsuccessful Polish attempt to dislodge the German self-protection company occupying the town of Hindenlmrg in Upper Silesia, the French occupation troops surrounded the Germans, and a violent combat ensued, in which the French had one killed and three wounded.

The Germans had seventeen killed and seventeen wounded.