GERMAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1922, Page 2

GERMAN NEWS

UNITED SERVICE TELEGRAMS. A GERMAN BEPOBT. BERLIN, July 18. Two tourists arrived at Halle on Sunday and reported they had seen a li lit in the turret of San leek Castle, the tenant of which was absent. The police proceeded to the castle and demanded admission, but the tenants refused. The police obtained reinforcements and forced an entrance and found Fisher and Kern, believed to be Rntheiiau’s murderers, shot dead. Prior to the arrival of the police both had greeted pUssersby with cheers for Erhardt.

HOSTILITY TO THE MONARCHISTS BERLIN, July 18.

An unexpected result of Dr llatlienau’s murder is a tacit coalition of otherwise conflicting political factions, who are vying with each other in ferreting out secret hoards of arms and war material. The police hitherto have not displayed any excessive peal. Hidden weapons are now wanted as evidence of complicity in monarchist conspiracies. The police, aided by Socialist organisations throughout the cotmtrv, are working with ruthless zeal. Hoards of rifles, machine-guns, and ammunition arc being found almost dailv. The most recent find is five hundred machine-guns at Stuttgart. Simultaneously some Majority Socialists pursued a clue with Holmes-like skill, anil unearthed in an old barracks in Potsdam parts of machine guns and rifles, two hundred loaded bombs, ainmuniti. n, sidearms, and miscellaneous equipment, bearing the Sivestika emblem, which is the symbol of the monarchists and anti-Semites. Documents found on the suicides urnvo Kern was the author and leader of a plot whereby he escaped, eventual-. !y hiding in the picturesque ruin of Saaleeke Castle, near Koeben, in Thuringia. Shein, the owner of the castle, is an author and an ultraNationalist. He is believed to lie concerned with the murderers. When police were battering the doois. the murderers appeared on a platform at the summit of the toewr, and shouted: "Kong live Captain Elirhardt! We die for our ideals!” Then two shots were heard.