Show I Murder of Servant Girl Shows German Berman Trend to Fascism F I IDT Ur fly Central es e's I 1 rial Special J Dispatch h to the 1110 11 o Copyright 1926 Consolidated Press Association July A 24 24 A Da- Da Bavarian D Ba-D BERLIN varian varlan servant girl Anna reads In her na- na naUvo na Uvo tivo village an official placard summoning all persons to rl- rl report re report port any finds ot of secret of-secret secret arms armsto armsto armsto to the nearest disarmament commission She goes thither and tells what she has acci acci- accidentally acci- acci accidentally accidentally dentally learned Shortly thereafter a man VIsits tho the house ot of her em- em employer employer em employer In Munich and de mands to speak with Ith the girl She Sho tells her mistress mist she must give gl further testimony In the weapon affair She Sho leaves the house In the eve eve- evening eve evening ning In company with two men In an automobile and does not return The two men strangle herand her herand and the next morning work work- workmen workmen workmen men discover her body hang hang- hanging hanging ing from u a u branch of o a tall lall tree with 1 t this hs placard on tte breast You You traitorous fe- fe female female fe female male You betra betrayed cd your your- your fatherland our fatherland Therefore the black hand finished you The Socialist deputy Cards Gareis gets a tip that this murde murders occurred with tho the connivance or of the tho Munich police He anda and anda II a party comrade retain a n law lawyer law law- lawyer yer er and listen In on a tele tele- tele phone conversation between tho informer and the tho pOlice commissioner establishing the truth of the accusation the In-the In the the Bavarian diet Garcia Gareis d demands mands an Investigation In de declaring de- de declaring declaring claring the existence within the Munich police force of ot an organization whose whoso purpose isto Is Isto Isto to do away violently with people cannot bo be suffered Carets is attacked In the tho press threatened with death and a 1 a of or months later Is murdered In a n dark street The Iho lawyer whom Gareis se- se secured se cured to eavesdrop on the tho tel tel- telephone telephone ephone conversation con gets gels dis- dis disciplinary dis disciplinary punishment which recently has been affirmed by bythe bythe bythe the highest German court The police commissioner Implicated still Is In office and unmolested Former Lieu Lieu- Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieutenant tenant who vho as asIs asIs Is hardly denied dented murdered the harmless servant girl and also Gareis Is arrested ro- ro re released leased and equipped with lIh a false passport After his reo re return turn from Hungary he Is kept kept- t concealed tor for a n year year- on op the the estate estate of ot a I duke of Bavaria Then he Is re-arrested re and ond re- re relea released re released lea leased ed again And a II Bavarian Davarian general testifying In court declares that ho approves cs of or the vio- vio violent vio violent lent removal of ot persons who threaten harm to the tho father father- fatherland fatherland fatherland land and regards regards-It regards It it as ns the duty ot of every ery patriotic Ger Ger- German German Ger- Ger German man to do all possible to pro pro- pro the brave young men mell who carry out tho work This shows the importance or of the tact fact that who is suspected ot of at least two murders is 19 again re- re released re released leased and that his release was concealed for three days giving him hint time to make his getaway This state of mind will III be further Illumined when a commission makes public the tho results ot of o Its In- In In Investigation What has lias been learned in these Investigations reads like a report from the darkest middle ages and out out- outdoes outdoes out outdoes does tho the er case In dell Illegality and ond atrocity atrocity atrocity ity While the German home guards and n a big biK part of been patriotic assassins have cd their places have been taken by associations for tor rearing a n vigorous youth by rifle practice with small calibre guns and supple supple- supplementary supplementary supplementary bodies And In north Germany particularly I in n Prussia the tho power of ot the new movement grows quietly but rapidly The name namo comes from the old Ger Ger- Ger- Ger Germanic Germanic manic root art art meaning plowed land The who are mainly the tho unemployed sons ot of bourgeois bourgeoise of- of officers of officers and students were ero In- In Intended intended intended tended at first to supply the lack ot of farm tarm laborers on es- es estates estates es estates tates but the thankless role of wage wago cutters did not satis satis- satisfy satis- satis satisfy fy ty them them They are domiciled by regiments res on estates they are bound by drastic oaths they wear uniforms they fill 1111 their spare time with competitive com com- com competitive songs and ond dancing they regard the bringer ot of victory as their highest J 1 best god and have dedicated themselves to battle against the he he braised spirit This does docs not mean merely Jews bu but also mild spirited Christian n evan evan- evangeles evangeles geles This mixture of ot the Wotan cult with military drill and the tho typical German Inclination Inclination tion to join loin something could give Ilvo birth to a Teutonic tas- tas fascism fas fascism cism Such symptoms explain why Austen Chamberlain had to confess regretfully In the British house of ot commons c that Germanys Germany's disarmament was not yet complete On the same day Raymond aro achieved re-achieved re power p In Prance France No other statesman h In n a II position to do so much for tor the Inner and en- en enduring enduring n- n during pacification ot of Eu- Eu Europe Europe Eu Europe rope It If he ho is not smaller tm ll than his hl f fate te ho will free freo GermAny from the spectre ot of vengeful undertakings and will at the tho same game time do his fatherland a lasting service |