LUDENDORFF'S LIBEL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 684, 8 June 1929, Page 26

LUDENDORFF'S LIBEL

‘‘SPY” PHOTOGRAPHER CASE GENERAL FINED £4O Herr Starr, a photographer, of Cuxhaven, who brought an action for libel against General Ludendorff, has won his case, and the general has been fined £4O. If he cannot produce the full sum the general will have to go to prison for one day for each 50s he fails to pay. General Ludendorff has consecrated his life to the task of warning mankind against the wickedness of Freemasons, Roman Catholics and Jews, who, he alleges, intrigue together to attain their diabolical ends. It is only fair to state that the general has suspicions about the Protestants, and has therefore resigned his membership of the Evangelical Church. Pilloried as Traitor Great was Herr Starr's surprise when he found that he was pilloried as a traitor and a spy in General Ludendorff’s book, “The Destruction of Freemasonry by the Revelation of : its Secrets.” That hook contained a photograph of an alleged meeting of Freemasons i at St. Quentin, in France, during the I war, with a statement that the 12 men ! in uniform were Germans acting as |

spies for the enemy and that tv civilian in the picture was a t? oaJ » Freemason who was also acting Now the photographer could v, „ believe his eyes when he saw ts alleged French Freemason ana was he himself, and so he took ceedings. The General and his new wit* v ing that Christianitv has mas hol, t German race effeminate bvT the peaceful virtues of renfi“t self-sacrifice and patience advnn ***• return to the ancient heathen?* 4 which are set forth in the wL f ? lth » t\ oten and other gods Thev d * of about Germany ventilating the\» 3t ? n ‘I > before bewildered audiences 6 ldeas