GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 December 1924, Page 2

GERMAN ITEMS

iUBTKALIAN AND N.Z. CAULE ASSOCIATION. HAARMAN’S CRIMES. BERLIN, December 5. Ilaarman. whose trial at Hanover is attracting the attention of criminologists throughout the world, continues to maintain an extraordinary attitude. He told the President of the Court, “You seem to think murder an easy matter. It is not really a pleasure to kill people. You cannot imagine how excited one becomes sometimes.”

Ilaarman again asked that the trial he as short as possible, so that he could “ join his dear mother in Heaven before Christmas. Harman’s one dread appears to lie lest he he sent to an asylum, instead of being beheaded. It appears that lie was committed to an asylum us a hoy, hut he succeeded in escaping, and since lias lived his whole life among criminals of the lowest class.

GERMAN VIEWS. BERLIN, December 7. The German press discusses the An-glo-German trade agreement just made from the .standpoint nl its elieet oil Sunday’s elections for the Riechstag. The Republicans claim that it is an important advance, only attainable by tin- Reichstag’s recent policy. The Democrat paper “ Tagoblatt ” says the Treaty means Germany is again recognised as a great power on equal footing economically with others. Nevertheless the “Tngehlatt’s” commercial editor expresses the ophl. ion that the Treaty will benefit England more than Germany. He declares that considered from every standpoint it has given English goods ten per cent advantage over those <>| rivals. The negotiators ol the ’I reaty, interviewed. pointed onL that Britain had undertaken to recommend acceptance of the Treaty in India and the Dunlin ions, and failing their ratification, had given Germany the liberty to negotiate direct I v with the Dominions.