A Nazi plot to capture and attack Dr. Rudolf Hilferding, leader of the Social Democratic Party in Germany, failed of realization because of the failure of the intended victim to follow his travel schedule, the “Vorwaerts” reports today.
Dr. Hilferding, the paper reports, was scheduled to address a meeting in Cleve, Rhineland. The Nazis planned to attack Dr. Hilferding enroute to Cleve. Nazi storm troops entered the train at a station midway and proceeded to the compartment where they expected to find the Social Democratic leader, for the purpose of attacking him, says the “Vorwaerts.”
Fortunately, the paper comments, Dr. Hilferding was not there, but in view of the terrorization of the Nazis, the meeting in Cleve had to be abandoned.
It is further reported today that uniformed Nazis entered the hunting villa of the director of the Berlin Jewish Hospital, Professor Rosenstein, in the absence of the family. They forced their way into the villa, at the point of a gun, and carried away with them five guns and ammunition.
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