HORRIBLE OUTRAGES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 494, 30 March 1933, Page 5

HORRIBLE OUTRAGES

SUPPRESSION OF TRUTH Rec| March 29, 9.30 p.m. London, March 29. The Manchester Guardian speeial correspondent at Berlin says that Germany is now in a period of trahsition hetween non-legal terror, consisting of beating and murders and legal terror, comprising imprisonment and death under speeial laws devised to keep non-Nazi supporters in a permanent state of fear and demoralisation The correspondent cites three instances of brutal beating, including a Berlin Socialist, who was lashed with riding whips, taken to the Nazi headquarters, pinioned and confronted with a mock court martial, brown shifts standing on each side of the judge. The prisoner was repeatedly beaten and finally removed to a room where there were a number of fellow prisoners, some with faces beaten to pulp. A doctor was present administering first aid. The number of persons killed with knives, bullets or beaten to death, seems to run into hundreds and the injured into thousands. Many of the victims have lost their sight owing to being beaten with steel wands. The suppression of truth is so successful that even persons living in Berlin, the scene of countless ' horrible outrages, will assert that nothing unusual has happened. The German working class fury and hatred has been aroused to a pitch that never hefore existed in Germany.