Evening star., 1934-07-01
LAID
TO ERNST ROEHM
Nazis Says Storm Troops
Leader Promoted Revolt
in Country.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, June 30.-Orgies of an in
describable nature by Nazi storm troop
leaders and an alleged plot between
Capt. Ernst Roehm, national COM
mander of the storm troops, and "a
| foreign power" were announced by the
Nad party today as responsible for
| Roehm's arrest and removal from
ONCE.
The party press department said
Roehm Furthermore had conspired
with former Chancellor Kurt Won
Schleicher against the government.
Won Schleicher was killed today as he
resisted arrest.
The press department communique
read as follows:
For many months certain elements
have been trying to drive wedges and
create friction between the storm
| troops and the National Socialist)
party and between the storm troops
| and the state.
The suspicion that these attempts
emanated from a limited clique with
certain leanings was more and more
| confirmed.
| ROehm Is Blamed.
"Chief Of Staff Roehm, in whom
Der Fuehrer had placed unusual con-
idence. not only did not oppose these
| tendencies, but doubtless advanced
them.
His well-known, unfortunate homo
sexual disposition in course of time
| led to such unbearable embarrassment
that the leader of the movement and
the supreme head of the storm troops
/ himself was brought into the severest
conflict Of conscience
| Chief Of Staff Roehm, without the
knowledge of Der Fuhrer, entered into
relations with Gen. Schleicher. In SO
! doing he made use both of another
storm-troop leader and one of obscure
personality, known in Berlin. but
thoroughly diSfavored by Adolf Hitler
Intervention Necessary.
when these negotiations finally
and of course without the knowledge
OF the leader extended to a foreign
power or rather. its mission here, ii
was no longer possible both from the
standpoint of the party and of the
State to refrain from intervening"
The rest OF the statement follows
incidents of a provoking nature
led to Der Fuehrer Immediately re-
moving and arresting two of the most
| compromised leaders at 2 am. today
when he returned by airplane to
Munich from an inspection Of labor
! camp in Westphalia.
| Der Fuehrer personally went tc
Wiessee, accompanied by several OF
his men in order to nip any attempt
at opposition in the bud.
bad Moral Spectacle"
THE execution of the arrests was
accompanied by a spectacle which
was so bad morally that every trace
of pity must needs vanish
Some OF these storm troop leaders
had brought boys with them for lust
| full purposes. One of them was
caught in a most despicable situation
and was arrested
Der Fuehrer gave orders for the
| pitiless excision of this pest and boil.
He will not tolerate in the future
! that millions Of decent people shall be
compromised by individuals with alb
normal tendencies.
Der Fuehrer gave Prussian Premier
Goering an order to carry out SINH
lar actions in Berlin and there, espe-
cially, to seize reactionary associates
in this political conspiracy.
To Strike Our Creatures"
"At IL noon Der Fuehrer de-
| livered a speech before the higher
storm troop leaders, who had come
together at Munich. in which he laic
emphasis on his unshakable adhesion
to the storm troops but at the same
time announced his determination
henceforth to mercilessly stamp out
and destroy creatures who were with.
out discipline and obedience as vel
as elements that are anti-soclal OF
abnormal.
He pointed out that service in the
storm troops was an honor for which
tens of thousands of fine storm trooE
men had made the heaviest sacrifices
He stated that he expected the
leader Of every storm troop unit tc
show himself worthy of these sacrifices
and a model within his unit.
He further pointed out that fol
years he had protected Capt. Roehn
against an attack of the severest kind
that at last developments had forced
him. however, to place the welfare Of
the movement and of the state ahead
of all personal considerations.
Above all" he said, "he would nip
in the bud and stamp out every at
tempt in the mdicrous circles of am
bilious creatures to propagate the idea
of a new revolution