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DRIVEN UNDERGROUND
GERMAN COMMUNISTS
WHOLESALE ARRESTS
(Australian Cable Service)
BERLIN, July 30
In spite of the ferocious measures taken, to suppress the Communists, the secret police declare that the movement has only been driven underground and that the Reds are plotting throughout Germany. Stormtroops at Niochsen, in the Ruhr, discovered an organisation with 40,000 to 50,000 members resulting in arrests and seizures of explosives, ammunition and weapons. Thirty were caught practising military exercises and will be charged with high treason.
The Cairns Post, 1933
Milton slipped behind the wheel of the Mercedes and started the engine, screeching away from the parking valet who’d brought the car around.
Alois Richter had been determined that his young guests should enjoy ever
