NAZIS AND CHURCH.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20267, 9 August 1937, Page 9

NAZIS AND CHURCH.

A SERVICE CANCELLED. PREVENTING A DEMONSTRATION. CASE OF REV. M. NIEMOELLER. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright (Received August 9, 11 a.m.) BERLIN, August 8. Apparently in order to prevent a demonstration, the police cancelled Rev. Martin Niemoeller’s proposed service at the Dahlem Church. A service was held outside the church, the crowds defying the police orders to disperse until wholesale arrests were effected, including several pastors.

Mr. Martin Niemoeller, militant leader of the German Protestant

PARLIAMENTARIANS DENOUNCED. SUPPORT OF CONCORDAT. “MAY HE BE DAMNED I” united Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Aug. 9, 1.30 p.m.) BELGRADE, Aug. 8. Ten members of the Cabinet, including M. Stoyadinovitch, and fifteen members of the Chamber of Deputies, including M. Stoyadinovitoh’s brother, were denounced from pulpits in the Orthodox churches throughout Yugoslavia lor supporting the Concordat. Ecclesiastical courts will try them later. Two thousand people silently listened at Belgrade to an ex-communi-catory roll-call, but suburban congregations greeted each name with the response, “May he be damned.” Pamphlets ask the populace to boycott those who have been ex-communi-cated. The Orthodox authorities refused to baptise the new born son of the Postmaster-General, M. Kaloudjerchitch.