GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1924, Page 2

GERMAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAUI.E ASSOCIATION. GERMAN'S CRUEL ACT. LONDON March 30. The “Daily Express” Berlin correspondent reports a case of medieval cruelty, disclosed during the prosecution of Freidrich Grauhorst, a wealthy lord of a manor near Potsdam. He was charged with brutal treatment aiul assault. Gran lior.st discovered two peasants stealing corn from his bam, and at the point of the revolver he compelled them to undress completely, notwithstanding the intense cold, and then ordered them to run. firing three shots as they fled. All the bullets missed their mark. Next morning one man found frozen stiff' on the roadside. 'I he other succeeded in reaching home.

The Court decided that Grauhorst had iiansgresscd the limits ol sell’ protoiiioii allowed by the law, and lined him £5.

THE MUNICH TRIAI

THINGS MAY HAPPEN

[“Tins Times” Skbyick.]

Received this day at 0 45 a.m.) LONDON, Match 31 The “Munich” correspondent of the

''Times” says that the Bavarian Government is taking special precautions in view ol possible disturbances when j verdict is announced in the Hitler case 10-morrow. A proclamation has been issued warning the population that noting and looting are unlawful and assembly and resistance to tlie Slate’s forces are punishable by death or penal servitude. The proclamation also forbids the display of posters with the result of the trial in tlio streets, cities or shop windows. A State Commission lias been appointed with special powers to maintain order. Reports, that Hitler's supporters throughout Bavaria are concentrating upon Munich, are officially contra l.'dod. but from previous experience the public has little faith in the official denials. Every where there is, a feeling that tilings may happen.