GERMAN PLOTTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1929, Page 3

GERMAN PLOTTERS

BERLIN, Sept., 16. The mystery of the long series ol terroristic acus perpetrated in Ger- | many, and culminating in the explosion of a bomb outside the Reichstag on September 1 and the explosion of an infernal machine in the jw. . r.imviit buildings at Luneberg last Friday, has been solved, and the terrorist leaders and their eonieucraivs, n.u,inhering 22 persons, 'nave ueen arrested. . An infernal machine has been found in the home, of one of the conspirators at Hamburg, and a secret factory foi uxpiosixes iias been discovered it Berlin. The terrorists are associated with the most violent members of tbe Nat ionalist Party, founded .by Albert Hitler,- the leader of a dangerous revolt in Bavaria, and General Ludeudorff, and bear tbe most misleadiu name of the National Socialist Workers’ Partv.

They are actually tools in the hands of tbe Nationalists and the Monarchists. who are engineering a grea! cons];iracy against the liberties oi the Republic.

INVOLVED IN ASSASSINATIONS. Among them arc ,men who wore involved in the assassination of. Herr Ei-k erger, a former Minister of Finance, in 1921, and-of Dr Rathenau, the Foreign -Minister, in the following year. • j lie terrorists were divided= into Two groups, one, in Schleswig, where since January they have attempted ten times to blow' up Government buildings, -and one in Berlin. - ... The attention oh the police, was, directed to agitators who have been stir- "• nsi up the peasants and farmers of Schleswig to revolt, and especial] v those who once had relations with the terrible Consul organisation. Under the leadership of the .notorious ex-naval captain Erhardt, this organisation was mainly responsible for tbe assassination of leaders of the Republic: or for attempts on their lives. i

ROAD REPAIRS RUSK

The police spread a network of observers over the roads leading * to Hamburg ami erected barriers ar-

ranged to look like road repairs, so as to force suspected motor-cars to slow clown. The movements of cer-t-air motor-cars were particularly suspected. , 1

On Mchl'v the n-oliee heard that, n car had been Left near Itzehoe ('Schleswig) - and discovered that the owner, named Nickels, had taken n

parcel to the home of a man named Karl Alfred Pnener at Hamlburg. Til Pueno’-’s flat was found an infernal machine constructed in a cigar-box,' with cleverly .contrived ‘ electrical:apparatus for timing- the explosion. Pnener and Nickels, who claims to ho an ex-captain of police, have been arrested.

The clues led the police to the office of a violent Nationalist newspaper at Iti'ohOo. wh°re the conspirators met, and the editor, Bruno von Saleman, and three members of the staff were arrested. Tn the small hours of this morning Mi 0 brother of the Itzehoe editor. Ernst von -Saleman, and the friend in whose homo he was living, Dr Sal- • oorpr. were arrested in Berlin, arid also Herr Techew, who was sent to prison in connection with the murder of Dr Rathenau.

AVOATAN ARRESTED. The only woman arrested is Fraulein Sonia Lankes, secretary of the Propaganda Bureau, which is under the direction of Capt. Erhardt. It is stated that further arrests are to he expected. Tliese terrorists are merely tools in the hancljj. of tlio.-e who are directing a great conspiracy against the Republic. The Nationalist Press is representing the. present Government as selling Germany into the hands of foreigners by accepting the , Yeung Plan for German reparation payments.