Show NAZIS ARREST I NUNS MONKS Violations of Currency Curren Curren- cy Laws Alleged BERLIN March 30 A i-A A prominent prominent nent Catholic attorney said aid toda today that if the Catholic nuns and monk monks arrested in German Germany yesterday have violated an any currency laws Jaws it was wa because they regarded mone money collect cd ed for missionary purposes es as belonging belong belong- ing directly to lo God and hence beyond cond human jurisdiction The number of Catholics who have exchanged ed cells in their convents for cells in nazi pr prisons ons was still un un- un determined The Catholic attorney who frequently acts for the Holy See Sec said If these simple minded devout nuns and monks have committed technical technical tech tech- violation of the exchange laws lawsin in Germany which Germany which must yet et be bc proved it proved it was because they considered considered consid consid- ered cred moneys mones collected from foreign missions so sacred and so 10 directly belonging belonging belonging be be- longing to Gc that any human law which prevents this money from reaching its destined goal is immoral and in contravention of Gods God orders and hence need not be obeyed German authorities claimed that laws making mandatory mandator a report reports to the of or any foreign exchange ex ex- change held by German citizens had hid been violated b by those arrested and that laws prohibiting the exportation of or foreign exchange had been o er over over- stepped Apparently the chief source of trouble was at M MUenster Westphalia where various arrests were cre made made among them that of ot an octogenarian mother superior at Trebnitz near Dear Breslau and another nun 84 years old The government still declined to divulge details of the arres arrests and charges |