CHURCHMAN ARRESTED.
ACTION IN GERMANY. Received July 2, 12.5 p.m. BERLIN, July 1. Dr Martin Niemoller, leader of the Confessional movement against the Nazification of the Evangelical Church, has been arrested on a charge of announcing from the pulpit the names of members of the congregation who had seceded from the church, such announcement being forbidden by the Minister of tbe Interior. Dr Niemoller, preaching on June 27, said that 48 members of the Confessional movement had been recently arrested.
REASONS FOR ARREST. OFFICIAL STATEMENT. Received July 2, 12.59 p.m. 'BERLIN, July 1. An official report confirming the arrest of I>r Niemoller states: “H© lias for a long time used Divine service and other Church activities to deliver provocative speeches and calumniate leading persons of the State and the Nazi Party. He has spread untrue reports about Church conditions in Germany and incited disobedience of laws and decrees.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 181, 2 July 1937, Page 8
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