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Show ASSASSINS KILL DR. RATHENAU I SiJ a . i . . I NOTED GERMAN I SHOT TO DEATH; I SLAYER FLEES I i Assassin Fires From Motor As Rathenau Leaves His Home INSTANTLY KILLED Foreign Minister Was Once Known As Wizard of Teuton Empire BERLIN. June 24 (By the Asso- ite, press.) Dr Walter Rathenau. LMH German minister Of foreign affairs. Ullfil I assassinated today. The minister was shot and instant-ly instant-ly killed as ho was leaving his icsl-dence icsl-dence at Grunwald. a suburb of Ber-lln. Ber-lln. for the foreign office In an au-tomoblle. au-tomoblle. The assassin escaped. The murderer, who was driving In a motor ar. slowed up as be Bras I nesting lr. Rathenau and shot twice at the foreign minister, the shots tak- Hilllj Ing Immediate fatal effect. Putting on high speed the assassin escaped. Dr. Rathenau was a guest at din- ner last night of Alanson B Hough-ton. Hough-ton. the American nmbassador. On Ing n i of the assassination of the foreign minister this morning. I the American embassy promptly hoisted Its flag to half mast. WIZARD iF 1 MPTKE. (Note Dr Walter Rathenau was styled "the wizard of the German , empire." because, by his high powers K of organization and business eft'- ,, I kept "the people eating and the army 81111 shooting" when the blockade !uJ f shut off the Importation of raw ma- , I terlals during the war. After tho war l as minister of reconstruction, his fill f II LLa meetings with the French minister. HI j; I I .,,.). rv ' ..r..U!.'b i i business-like directness adjustment k I and accommodations which had been i the despair of diplomats. , He was of Jewish birth and was i described as a man of great force j and energy, business acumen, vision ,j i and Initiative His father founded the , HJ i German General Electric company of all II I Berlin 1 No clue to the identity of tho niur- Ml ' derer has been discovered up to noun ilj today. jj KUjXJNG FOI i OWS VI i K The assassination of Dr. Rathenau Jj followed hard upon a vitriolic attack on the foreiirn minister i.v Dr K irl I ilil'lll I Helfferlch In the rclctutag Friday tl'iiH' fll when the nationalist leader grilled In the government generally and TV. jj1 Rathenau in particular concerning the 3 I cabinet s reparation policy and its ,t- InNi litude towards the populations of the lill'.'l I Rhlneland and the Saar valley. in HJ News of the assassination reached l!i 1 the reichstag at 11 o'clock, Just wh n H.Im1I HhI the commission on taxation had con- f ened. fliancellor Wlrth announced j HI the assassination, upon which pandc- HH ' HH monfum broke out among the- various hi party groups , IE ii i i .1 i ; r.n ii ii t s j i T,. mji i.il'-l. jump. . I up. -iioutln f'lifiiH to Dr. Helfferlch: .U I 'You are the assassin." jtf3 ; HJ They threatened to pounce upon I him and lie Helfferlch hastily I the committee room. In one of the reichstag lounges a HJ heated outbreak of recrimination be- ' tween deputies belonging t.. the left fiH HI1 and a party of representatives of the other extreme in the chamber. I h. :i n. , ii;, mii ine i'HHJ ed to the reichstag Itself at 11:25 KlflHH i o'clock It was received with deep HH emotion Then amidst a turmoil, the bodv adjourned HHJ rwo i dm w ii c n Ther were two persons in the au- nm' I tomoblle from which the shots that J(41Hh1 (Continued on Page Two ) oo NOTED GERMAN SHOT TO DEATH; SLAYER FLEES (Continued from Page One) killed Dr Rathcnau were fired. Both the occupants are said to navo opened open-ed fire upon tho foreign minister who fell to toh floor of his car fatally wounded, expiring shortly afterward. Largo forces of polloe wero quickly on tho Bcene. As foreign minister. Dr. Rathcnau Rathcn-au was a leading figure among the German delegates at the Genoa conference. con-ference. Rathenau's prominence at Genoa came- rather from what he accomplished accom-plished on the outside the conference than In It The Genoa body having been in session only a few days when the startling announcement came, on April 17. that as German foreign minister, he had signed at Rappallo a treaty between Germany and Soviet Russia. oo |