Evening star., 1935-08-02
NAz|S THREATEN
FOES WITH DEATH
UNDER NEW CODE
Drastic Regulations Set Up
as Nation Pays Tribute
to Hindenburg.
FOREIGNERS WARNED;
SWISS WRITER 0USTED
Repressive Measures Looming
Against Other Newspaper
Correspondents.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, August 2.-Roland Frelsler,
state secretary for the ministry OF
Justice, disclosed today that activity
against the Nazi party and its organ
izations will be regarded as treason
against the people and will be punished
BY death under the new criminal CODE.
1T must be clear that the Nazi
movement is the pillar of the German
nation and it must be protected BY
provisions against reasonable actlV-
tiles by the coming CODE" he said.
The state secretary outlined l5
points, many of them dealing with
technical questions. to be covered by
the Forthcoming sweeping penal CODE.
Acts of Foreigners Defined.
Unreasonable activities against the
people are the most severe crimes"
he said. Traitors place themselves
outside the community and severe
crime of this kind must be punished
with outlawry, including the death
penalty"
Severe punishment also would be
provided for treasonable action by
foreigners, he added, but such action
could not be termed treason, because
foreigners are bound only by an obli-
CATION of hospitality. not by ties of
allegiance to the nation.
His pronouncement was issued as
Nazi Germany observed the first an
niversary Of the death of Marshal
Paul Won Hindenburg, but excluded
the war veterans who were close to the
marshaPs heart-the Steel Helmeters
from participating in memorial serv-
Ices at his grave.
Flags flew at half mast while me-
mortal services were held at all army
garriSonS and at various monuments.
Army Rapidly Expanding.
The day also marked the end of the
first year of absolute rule by Reichs-
fuehrer Adolf Hitler. While Won Hin
denburg lived, Hitler was. only chan
cellor, but Immediately thereafter he
assumed sole power.
Germany'S army. which Won Hin
denburg disbanded after the World
War, meanwhile. was we'll on it's way
to rapid reconstruction. The new army
has been spread over the Reich by Won
Hindenburg's successor as fast as gar
risons can be built.
The VolksZeitung compared the
former president to George Washing
ton, first President of the United
States, saying: The same words
which refer to Washington can be
applied to Won Hindenburg, first in
war, first in peace and first in the
hearts of mis- countrymen.'
Praised for Christian Aims.
The Catholic newspaper Germania
reminded the Reich that Won Hin
denburg embodied Christianity in
Germany.
Secret political officials, meanwhile,
denied emphatically that Werner
Neumann, killed "as a peace dis
turber who attacked a secret police
man." was Jewish.
Werner .Neumann was an Aryan
and had nothing whatever to do with
Jews" said a spokesman for the
secret police.
Stories that he was non-Aryan
Just amount to atrocity mongering
and there is nothing to them"
Swiss Newsman Banished.
Meanwhile, the propaganda min
istry's heavy hand fell today upon
DR.. Ernst Klein, the Berlin corre-
spondent of the Swiss Protestant
newspaper Basler Nachrichten.
He was ordered to get out of Ger
many within five days and the order
was regarded as the first action in
repressive measures threatened against
foreign correspondents.
Officials of the propaganda ministry
have been busy for the last few DAYS
calling in foreign correspondents and
telling them their reporting does not
please the Nazi regime.
During previous months only
younger correspondents who have not
been in Germany long or who do not
represent large and influential news
papers or nations were called on the
carpet.
But during recent days the ministry
has called in men who have been in
Germany more than a dozen years.
among them two former presidents of
the Foreign Press Association.