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Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1933, Page 5

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DEFENCE MEASURES

AGAINST OUTSIDE ATTACKS (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.( BERLIN, July 15 Inaugurating a new method of “defending Nazi Germany against the attacks from her enemies abroad,” five relatives of Schiedeman, the exiled Socialist ex-Chaneello,r, have been arrested and jsent to a concentration camp as a warning to the “slanderers ” Schiedeman is accused of trying to start a new atrocity campaign by the articles he has published in America The German Cabinet has passed law 6 directed against 'Schiedeman and other exiles, decreeing that the enemies of the State living abroad may ; forfeit their property, and also may lose their German citizenship if they refuse to return to Germany when summoned.

It is provided that naturalised Germans may have their nationality revoked if this is deemed advisable.

The law e decree that the formation of new parties is treason.

Handshaking in Germany is banned, Hitlerite orders prescribing the Nazi salute, by raising the right arm, for all.

Ludwig Diels, who as the Chiof of the 'Prussian Political ig responsible for the arrest and detention in the concentration camps of 18,000 enemies of the Nazi regime, was challenged to a mortal duel with pistols by one prisoner, by six others with fiabres, and by eleven with rapiers, under the recently-relaxed ban on duelling. Diels has accepted all of the challenges. He will fight them immediately his opponents are released.,

AN ANTI-HITLER NEWSPAPER

PUBLICATION IN AMSTERDAM,

AMSTERDAM, July 15. An -ant'-Fascist and anti-Hitlerite paper, th© “Weekly Fre.ie Preisse,” is being printed here in German.. It will state to-morrow that- its editor and staff are ex-members of German left wing parties, and that its contributors will include' Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Arnold and Stefan Zweig, and Leon Feuohtw anger. LORD MELCHETT CHANGES FAITH LONDON, July 15. Lord Melchett, although of Jewish birth, iia.s (been hitherto a member of the Church .of England,, in which he was baptised. To-day he embraced the Jewish faith in the presence of two at the North London Liberal Synagogue the Rabbi of which conducted the ceremony. Later it wag stated that Lord Me 1 - chett’s change of faith had no political significance, although he feds strongly as to the Nazis’ persecution of Jews. His change of faith was not the outcome thereof, but was due to his contact with Jews and with Palestine leading him to study Judaism.

Lord Melchett’9 father was LAfred Moritz Aloud, ‘before he was knighted and later given a peerage, anj his mother was Violet Goetz©.